CFTM-TV

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CFTM-TV

Montreal, Quebec
Branding	TVA
Channels	10 (VHF) / Cable 7 analog, 59 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	TVA
Owner	Québecor
Founded	1961
Call letters meaning	C F Télé Métropole
Transmitter Power	325kw
Website	TVA Montreal

CFTM, channel 10, is the flagship of the TVA television network, located in Montreal, Quebec.

It signed on in 1961, a few weeks after CFCF went on the air for the first time. It was owned by Télé-Métropole. Two years later, it began sharing programs with CJPM-TV in Chicoutimi. They were joined by CFCM-TV in Quebec City in 1964. This was the beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't formally established until 1971. When the station's owner, Joseph Alexandre DeSève, died in 1968, the city government renamed the street in front of CFTM's studios rue Alexandre DeSève in his honour.

CFTM dominated the TVA network even before Télé-Métropole bought majority control in 1990, producing as much as 90% of the network's shows. Even today, TVA's network feed is little more than a retransmission of CFTM. Whenever CFTM has to interrupt its programming for breaking news or weather alerts, the entire network gets interrupted as well.

Since May 1 1999, all Canadian cable companies have been required to carry a TVA station. CFTM is the affiliate carried in most markets outside of Quebec (excepting some markets in Northern Ontario, Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick). The station also provides a time-shifted feed for cable companies in western Canada.

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Broadcast television stations in the Montreal market

Local television stations CBFT 2 (SRC) - CBMT 6 (CBC) - CFTM 10 (TVA) - CFCF 12 (CTV) - CIVM 17 (TQC) - CFTU 29 (Savoir) - CFJP 35 (TQS) - CKMI 46 (Global) - CJNT 62 (CH/Multicultural)
Local cable television stations MétéoMédia (Metro Montreal Feed)
Stations from Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh, NY carried on cable WCAX 3 (CBS) - WPTZ 5 (NBC) - WVNY 22 (ABC) - WETK 33 (PBS / VPT) - WFFF 44 (FOX) - WCFE 57 (PBS)
Experimental HDTV Stations CDTV-MTL 64 (IND)
See also Broadcast television in the Champlain Valley, Ottawa, Trois-Rivières / Mauricie and Sherbrooke-Estrie markets