Talk:CKXT-TV

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This channel is indeed useless, and will continue to be.

Ever since it's first day of broadcast, the "token" ethnically-diverse newscasters were laughable. Now they don't do news, and the channel is officially worthless.

Something interesting that came out of Toronto1 and the CHUM deal was CityTV being given rights to broadcast Monday Night Football in 2005, which Toronto1 previously had rights to.

If this channel is around with it's current "image" in 10 years, I'll be flabbergasted. It should be scrapped and sold for parts. I'm sure there's someone out there who could use the frequency for, say, a 24 hour traffic channel? Or maybe a 24 hour stock ticker. I mean, at least people would *watch* those.

The pathetic thing about Toronto1, is despite all of it's failures, it was one of the FIRST channels (second only to CityTV) in Toronto to broadcast in ATSC (HDTV over UHF airwaves). Of course, no HDTV content except rebroadcasts of football from ABC. Even today, major players such as Global and OMNI1 still refuse to unveil this next-gen technology. Perhaps had Craig not spent so many millions of $ on HDTV equipment to comply with a CRTC deadline that was in the end lifted, they'd not in be such dire straits.

--70.28.104.175 20:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Worthless?

A 24-hour traffic/stock/news channel? CablePulse 24 already exists, albeit on cable-only. I think it should become a full-blown TVA affiliate. User:Raccoon Fox Talk 14:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I highly doubt that there is a large enough audience for a full blown private french language television station in the GTA or southern Ontario market. It just needs to pick up better programming, maybe try picking up some foreign cable network shows and hopefully cable companies across the country will begin to put it on basic cable and treat it like a superstation like tbs is for example. If not it would make a good addition to another national or semi-national network some day. 74.109.62.238 23:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, if not a TVA affiliate for Ontario (then again what's the purpose of TFO and CBLFT-TV/CBOFT-TV?), then why not turn SUN TV into a nationwide network? The idea of repeaters for (at least) the Ottawa/Gatineau metro area, to me, sounds horrid. When I've watched TV here in Ottawa, my old 1980s-era (now dead) TV could pick up stations like CBOT-TV, CJOH-TV, CFGS-TV, and even TVOntario very well; however the stations that had repeaters, like Citytv, A-Channel, and OMNI, were physically impossible to pick up terrestrially (thus normally forcing me to go cable). This is a different scenario to living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where I could pick up both Providence and Boston stations (even the weak ones) with ease. If Quebecor is serious about this, then they should turn it into a nationwide network with actual stations instead of repeaters of the main Toronto station. What goes on in Toronto (except for legislation, of course) is of no concern to me in Ottawa (whereas when living in Rhode Island whatever was going on in Boston was of concern to me since I find it easier to tell people that I'm from Boston instead of Rhode Island, since people would then assume I live on Long Island). Why not? -Daniel Blanchette 02:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)