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 Former CJOH/CJSS transmitter in Lancaster, Ontario, near the Quebec border. | |
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| Affiliations | CBC |
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| Owner | Stanley Shenkman |
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First air date | October 18, 1959 |
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Call sign meaning | Stanley Shenkman |
CJSS-TV (channel 8) was a television station in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. In operation from 1959 to 1963 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, the station was later converted to a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CJOH-TV.
The station originally signed on test broadcasts on October 12, 1959, [1] and began regular programming as a CBC Television affiliate on October 18, [2] owned by Toronto architect Stanley Shenkman. [3] Shenkman also acquired the radio stations CKSF and CKSF-FM, which both adopted the CJSS call sign as well.
On June 1961, CJSS-TV announced that it would disaffilate with the CBC, [4] and become an affiliate of a new television network, CTV.
Due to financial losses, CJSS was acquired by Ernie Bushnell in 1962. [5] The station ceased local programming on November 3 and converted into a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CTV affiliate CJOH the next day, [6] making CJSS the first TV station in Canada ever to cease operations as its own station and become a repeater for another. After many years of use to rimshot the Montreal market, Bell Media took the station permanently dark in 2017. [7] The radio stations were sold to the Emard family (Tri-Co Broadcasting Ltd.), [8] [9] and subsequently broadcast as part of Corus Entertainment. Of these stations, 1220 AM (as CJUL) left the air August 18, 2010, leaving just CJSS-FM retaining the original call sign.
