CJEO-DT

CJEO-DT

City of license	Edmonton, Alberta
Branding	OMNI Edmonton OMNI Alberta
Channels	Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 56.1 (PSIP)
Affiliations	OMNI Television
Owner	Rogers Media (Rogers Broadcasting, Ltd.)
First air date	September 15, 2008
Call letters' meaning	Edmonton's Omni
Sister station(s)	CKEM-DT
Former callsigns	CJEO-TV (2008-2011)
Former channel number(s)	56 (Analog, UHF, 2008-2011)
Transmitter power	58 kW
Height	294.0 m
Transmitter coordinates	53°31′54.7″N 113°46′52.2″W
Website	Omni Alberta

CJEO-DT, branded as Omni Alberta, is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta. The station is owned by Rogers Communications, and broadcasts a multicultural programming format as part of Rogers' Omni Television system. It broadcasts its analog signal on channel 56.

The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on June 8, 2007, and it launched on September 15, 2008. The station was originally assigned the call sign CHXE by Industry Canada, but this was changed to CJEO in February 2008. It is not carried by Bell TV or Shaw Direct.

Newscasts

Omni Alberta produces three nightly television newscasts aimed at the Cantonese, Mandarin, and South Asian communities across the province. While there are news gathering teams in both Edmonton and Calgary, the production of the newscasts themselves are done out of the Citytv/Omni studios in Downtown Edmonton.

• Omni News: Mandarin Edition (Weekdays 5:00pm)
  • Thomas Deng

• Omni News: South Asian Edition (Weeknights 8:00pm)
  • Sudha Krishnan

• Omni News: Cantonese Edition (Weeknights 9:00pm)
  • Kit Koon

Digital television and high definition

CJEO-TV's pre-launch logo

In August 2011, CJEO-DT began broadcasting in digital.

Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display CJEO-TV's virtual channel as 56.1.

External links

• OMNI Alberta
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CJEO-TV
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CJEO