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CJOH-TV (on-air identity is CTV, verbally referred to as CTV Ottawa before regional programming only) is a television station serving Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the surrounding region. Owned by CTVglobemedia, it is part of the CTV Television Network.

CJOH provides CTV network coverage for all of Eastern Ontario, a large segment of Western Quebec and portions of Northern New York, USA. The station broadcasts on Channel 13 from the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Gatineau, Quebec (serving Ottawa-Gatineau); Channel 8 from Lancaster, Ontario (serving Cornwall and, indirectly, Montreal); Channel 6 from Deseronto (serving Kingston and, indirectly, Watertown, New York) and Channel 47 from Pembroke. The station is seen on Cable 7 in Ottawa and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.

The station's studios and offices are located on Merivale Road in Nepean, although due to major fire at the Merivale studios in February 2010, the station's studios and offices as well as its newscasts have been relocated to the A Ottawa studios in ByWard Market[1] Newscasts are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., with the 6 p.m. newscast anchored by Max Keeping and Carol Anne Meehan.

CJOH no longer identifies itself on-air by its call letters, having adopted the unified CTV network brand, and its newscasts are also branded CTV News.

History

CJOH-TV's former Late Nite Movie logo, from 1988.

Founded by Ernie Bushnell, CJOH signed on for the first time on March 12, 1961. It acquired former Cornwall, Ontario CBC affiliate CJSS as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first station in Canada to cease operations. The Channel 6 transmitter in Deseronto became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. Standard Broadcasting owned the station from 1975 to 1988, when it was sold to Baton Broadcasting. Baton was purchased by Bell Globemedia, now CTVglobemedia, in 1998.

In the 1980s and early-1990s, when CTV offered Toronto Blue Jays baseball, CJOH's channel 8 transmitter in Lancaster/Cornwall had to show alternate programming instead, since the area was considered Montreal Expos territory. This substitute programming often had no commercials, and often had no definite end, as the length of baseball games varied. This was discontinued when the Blue Jays left CTV.

CJOH's former logo as a Baton Broadcasting System affiliate
CJOH-TV's logo from 1994
CJOH's former logo (1998-2005). As of October 2005 logos with the stations' callsigns are no longer used on CTV stations; instead they all use the main CTV logo.

From 1990 to 1997, the station was co-owned with Pembroke-based CHRO-TV, which was for the majority of that period a CTV affiliate for the Upper Ottawa Valley. In 1997, as part of a major trade, CHRO was transferred to CHUM Limited, and became a NewNet (later A-Channel) station primarily serving Ottawa. In 2007, CTVglobemedia received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to acquire CHUM; while CTV did not originally plan to keep A-Channel, it has decided to do so following a CRTC requirement to sell the Citytv system. This will once again make CJOH and CHRO sister stations in a market with only one other local English-language station, CBOT. Interestingly, while the CRTC forced the Citytv sale because of concerns about media concentration with multiple stations in the same city, it had no problem allowing the Ottawa twinstick, apparently due to the stations' joint ownership in the 1990s.

Well-known celebrities who first appeared on CJOH include Rich Little, The Amazing Kreskin, Alanis Morissette, Sandra Oh and Peter Jennings. Jennings started his professional career with the station during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.

Morrissette was briefly part of the cast on a local sketch comedy show, You Can't Do That On Television, aimed at the pre-teen and teen demographics. Originally conceived as a local and partially live production in 1979, the series became a huge success in the United States for the cable channel Nickelodeon starting in 1982 and was subsequently screened in many other countries.

The station's newsroom was destroyed by a four-alarm fire during the early morning hours of February 7, 2010, destroying equipment and the station's news archives. The building itself remains intact; however, at least for the immediate future, as a result, CJOH's news operations will be relocated to the CHRO-TV studios in ByWard Market. An adjacent office building housing former sister station CKQB-FM was not affected by the fire.[2][3]

Controversy

You Can't Do That On Television was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as the show's infamous "green slime." The controversy didn't stop the show from becoming a huge hit, locally and eventually globally.[citation needed]

On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor Brian Smith was shot in the station's parking lot by Jeffrey Arenburg, a released mental patient with a past history of threatening media personalities, who claimed the station was broadcasting messages inside his head. Smith died in hospital the following day.[4] The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law (Ontario Bill 68) - an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities.[5] Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in Penetanguishene in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2008.[6]

Transmitters

Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates
CJOH-TV-6 Deseronto 6 (VHF) 100 kW 204.5 m 44°8′30″N 77°4′33″W / 44.14167°N 77.07583°W / 44.14167; -77.07583 (CJOH-TV-6)
CJOH-TV-8 Cornwall 8 (VHF) 260 kW 187.5 m 45°10′34″N 74°31′36″W / 45.17611°N 74.52667°W / 45.17611; -74.52667 (CJOH-TV-8)
CJOH-TV-47 Pembroke 47 (UHF) 492 kW 125.7 m 45°50′2″N 77°9′49″W / 45.83389°N 77.16361°W / 45.83389; -77.16361 (CJOH-TV-47)

All of these rebroadcasters were slated to be shut down on or before August 31, 2009, pending CRTC approval.[7] However, it appears this deadline has been extended a year.[8]

CJOH programs

News staff, reporters and TV presenters

  • Max Keeping, News Anchor, CTV News at 6
  • Carol Anne Meehan, News Anchor, CTV News at 6
  • Leigh Chapple, News Anchor, CTV News at 11:30 (weeknights)
  • Michael O'Byrne, News Anchor, CTV News at Noon
  • Leanne Cusack, CTV News at Noon
  • Kimothy Walker, News Anchor, weekends
  • JJ Clarke, Weather presenter, weekdays
  • Eric Longley, Weather presenter and entertainment
  • Marlene Murray, Weather presenter (occasionally)
  • Melanie Serjak, Weather presenter (occasionally)
  • Stuntman Stu, Fill-in (weather)
  • Terry Marcotte, Sports news director
  • Corey Ginther, Sports
  • Carolyn Waldo, Sports
  • Brent Wallace, Sports (occasionally)
  • John Ruttle, Assignement Editor
  • Catherine Lathem, Reporter
  • Norman Fetterley, Reporter
  • Natalie Pierosara, Reporter
  • Joanne Schnurr, Reporter
  • John Hua, Reporter
  • Jonathan Rotondo, Reporter
  • Carole Anne Guay, Reporter
  • Kate Eggins, Reporter
  • Stefan Keyes, Reporter
  • Natalie Johnson, Reporter
  • Vanessa Lee, Reporter
  • Paul Brent, Host, Tech Now
  • Joel Haslam,Co-Host, Regional Contact
  • Kathie Donovan, Co-Host, Regional Contact
  • Ken Evraire Sports
  • Karen Soloman

Former staff

Digital television and high definition

As of January 2010, CJOH-DT has not signed on the air.

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on August 31, 2011 [9], CJOH-DT is required to begin digital broadcasts on its current assigned and analog channel number, 13, however should the station sign-on before the analog shut off date, the station will broadcast on channel 58.

CJOH has made its network programming available in High Definition through Videotron (ch. 607). But it is unclear at this point when Rogers or Bell will carry the signal, or when an over-the-air DTT signal will be available.[1]

References

  1. ^ CTV Ottawa to stay at A Ottawa indefinitely.
  2. ^ "CTV Ottawa newsroom destroyed by fire", CTV Ottawa, 2010-02-07
  3. ^ "Fire destroys CTV newsroom", CBC.ca, 2010-02-07
  4. ^ Widow shocked by unconditional release of husband's killer, CBC News, November 22, 2006
  5. ^ New rules for Ontario mental health care, CBC News, December 5, 2000
  6. ^ Ottawa sportscaster's killer jailed 2 years in U.S. for assault, CBC News, September 25, 2008
  7. ^ CTV list of transmitters to be shut down
  8. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-407
  9. ^ http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html

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