This article needs additional citations for verification .(November 2023) |
| |
---|---|
Channels | |
Branding | CFTV-DT 34: Community Focus Television CFTV 34 Action News |
Programming | |
Subchannels | see § Subchannels |
Affiliations | Independent/Community |
Ownership | |
Owner | Southshore Broadcasting |
History | |
Founded | December 29, 2005 |
Former call signs | CFTV-TV (2005–2012) |
Former channel number(s) |
|
Call sign meaning | Community Focused Television |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
ERP | 0.584 kW |
HAAT | 63 m (207 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°5′38″N82°43′48″W / 42.09389°N 82.73000°W |
Links | |
Website | www |
CFTV-DT (channel 34) is a low-power community television station in Leamington, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by a local non-profit consortium known as Southshore Broadcasting. CFTV-DT's transmitter is located on South Talbot Road in Cottam, Ontario.
CFTV-DT's signal reaches as far as Harrow, Tilbury, and the village of South Woodslee in the town of Lakeshore. The station is available in the Leamington area on Cogeco digital cable channel 100 and Gosfield North IPTV channel 34, and nationwide on Bell Satellite TV channel 586. Currently, viewers in Windsor are unable to view the station as the over-the-air signal is too weak to be received in the city nor is the station available on cable.
The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 2003. [1] On March 8, 2006, the Windsor Star stated that CFTV would begin regular transmissions on March 9, 2006, at 6:00 p.m. In the March 17, 2006 edition of the Windsor Star, it was confirmed that Leamington Municipal Council had allocated $12,000 per year to broadcast council meetings on the station.
In replies to questions asked via email, the CRTC has stated that CFTV is not required to convert to digital, because it is a low-powered station fairly far from Windsor–Detroit, and thus, has not received a digital assignment and was not required to flash-cut on its current channel to digital operations on August 31, 2011.
On August 17, 2012, the CRTC approved the station's request to begin broadcasting in digital on its current channel, 34. In addition, the station has also received permission to carry four subchannels, making it the first station in Canada to launch original content on its multiplex channels. [2] [3]
Channel | Format | Aspect | Label | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
34.1 | 480i | 4:3 | CFTV-DT1 | Independent/Community |
34.2 | CFTV-DT2 | French independent (6 a.m.–6 p.m.)/Spanish independent (6 p.m.–6 a.m.) | ||
34.3 | CFTV-DT3 | Caldwell/Kettle Point/Stoney Point First Nation and special needs/described video programming | ||
34.4 | CFTV-DT4 | Leamington and Essex County council meetings/Local news |
CKWS-DT is a television station in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, the station maintains studios on Queen Street in downtown Kingston, and its transmitter is located near Highway 95 on Wolfe Island, south of the city.
TVO, formerly known as TVOntario, is a publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It operates flagship station CICA-DT in Toronto, which also relays programming across portions of Ontario through eight rebroadcast stations. All pay television providers throughout Ontario are required to carry TVO on their basic tier, and programming can be streamed for free online within Canada.
CHWI-DT is a television station licensed to Wheatley, Ontario, Canada, broadcasting CTV 2 programming to the Windsor area. Owned and operated by Bell Media, the station has studios at the Bell Canada Building in downtown Windsor with a secondary office in Chatham; its transmitter is located on Zion Road in Chatham.
CJMT-DT is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two flagship stations of the Canadian multilingual network Omni Television. CJMT-DT is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media alongside sister Omni outlet CFMT-DT and Citytv flagship CITY-DT. The three stations share studios at 33 Dundas Street East on Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto; CJMT-DT's transmitter is located atop the CN Tower.
CBLT-DT is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the English-language service of CBC Television. It is part of a twinstick with Ici Radio-Canada Télé outlet CBLFT-DT. The two stations share studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street West in downtown Toronto, which is also shared with national cable news channel CBC News Network and houses the studios for most of the CBC's news and entertainment programs. CBLT-DT's transmitter is located atop the CN Tower.
CIII-DT is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, CIII-DT maintains studios at 81 Barber Greene Road in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto.
In cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system.
CBEFT was the Radio-Canada owned-and-operated television station serving Franco-Ontarians in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Previously licensed as a standalone television station, it later operated as a semi-satellite of Toronto station CBLFT-DT. It broadcast an analogue signal on UHF channel 35 from a transmitter near Concession Road 12 in Essex.
CBLFT-DT is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which broadcasts programming to the province's Franco-Ontarian population. It is part of a twinstick with CBC Television flagship CBLT-DT. The two stations share studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street West in downtown Toronto; CBLFT-DT's transmitter is located atop the CN Tower.
CFTM-DT is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, serving as the flagship of the French-language network TVA. Owned by Groupe TVA, the station has studios on Boulevard de Maisonneuve East and Rue Alexandre de Sève in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, and its transmitter is located on Voie Camillien Houde.
CBC Television is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is ICI Radio-Canada Télé.
CFRN-DT is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside cable-exclusive CTV 2 Alberta. The two outlets share studios with sister radio station CFRN on Stony Plain Road in Edmonton; CFRN-DT's transmitter is located near Highway 21, southeast of Sherwood Park.
Community television in Canada is a form of media that carries programming of local community interest produced by a cable television company and by independent community groups and distributed by a local cable company.
WGTE-TV is a PBS member television station in Toledo, Ohio, United States. It is owned by the Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio alongside NPR member WGTE-FM (91.3). The two stations share studios on South Detroit Avenue in Toledo; WGTE-TV's transmitter is located on Corduroy Road in Oregon, Ohio.
WLPC-CD is a low-power, Class A religious television station licensed to Redford, Michigan, United States, serving the Detroit area. The station is owned by Glenn and Karin Plummer. On cable, WLPC-CD is available on Charter Spectrum channel 397.
Canada is served by various multichannel television services, including cable television systems, two direct-broadcast satellite providers, and various other wireline IPTV and wireless MMDS video providers.
Windsor, Ontario is the fourth-largest border city media market in Canada, after Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. It is also the only one of those four markets to exist within the shadow of a larger American media market. While Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are all the dominant media markets in their regions and are adjacent to significantly smaller American markets, Windsor is located directly across the border from Detroit, the 11th largest television market and ninth-largest radio market in the United States. Thus, it is considered part of the Detroit television and radio market for purposes of territorial programming rights. It can also receive radio and television signals from Toledo, Flint, Lansing and even Cleveland.
Digital terrestrial television in Canada is transmitted using the ATSC standard. Because Canada and the U.S. use the same standard and frequencies for channels, people near the Canada–United States border can watch digital television programming from television stations in either country where available. The ATSC standards are also used in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, and South Korea.
Channel 34 refers to several television stations: