CFJC-TV
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| CFJC-TV | |
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| Kamloops, British Columbia | |
| Branding | CFJC News (Local Programming Only) |
| Slogan | The All New Independent! (local programming); Everything Entertainment (only on E! programming) |
| Channels | Analog: 4 (VHF) Digital: 43 (assigned) |
| Translators | See Below |
| Affiliations | E! |
| Owner | Jim Pattison Broadcast Group |
| Founded | April 8, 1957 |
| Former callsigns | CFCR-TV (1957-1971) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1957-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 3.7 kW |
| Height | 152.7 m |
| Website | CFJC TV |
CFJC-TV is a television station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, that is owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group. It broadcasts its analogue signal on VHF channel 4, and is carried on channel 7 on area cable systems. CFJC is also rebroadcast on channel 309 with Star Choice and 259 with Bell ExpressVu.
While calling itself "independent", CFJC is considered to be affiliated with the E! system, by virtue of its common schedule with Canwest-owned E! station CHBC Kelowna; Canwest (and WIC before it) has sold advertising on behalf of both stations for a number of years, making it necessary for both stations to carry the same programs aside from local news. However, the station's "TV7" branding has remained predominant since joining E! (formerly CH) in 2006.
The station's newscasts were re-branded from "CFJC TV7 News" to simply "CFJC News" in October 2007, in line with the Canwest-owned E! stations elsewhere in the country.
[edit] History
CFJC began operations on April 8, 1957 as a CBC affiliate, under the call sign CFCR-TV; the station was recalled with its current name (similar to Kamloops radio station CFJC, its owner at the time) on September 1, 1971. Both stations were bought by the Jim Pattison Group in 1987.
On November 1, 2005, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced it had received an application from Pattison to disaffiliate CFJC from CBC. According to documents filed with the commission, the continuation of CFJC's joint sales agreement with Kelowna station CHBC — which has already received clearance to disaffiliate and become a CH station under Canwest — is contingent on CFJC's concurrent disaffiliation.
The CRTC gave its approval on February 1, and CFJC disaffiliated from CBC on February 27, becoming the first CH affiliate not owned by Canwest.
The affiliation switch left the CBC solely dependent on cable and satellite carriage of its Vancouver station CBUT in the market, with no new terrestrial transmitters installed in the Kamloops area for the foreseeable future. The CBC indicated it had not budgeted for this scenario and therefore could not afford to replace the transmitters, as it has done in the past in this scenario.
Incidentally, the Radio-Canada station in Vancouver has a repeater in Kamloops, which has remained in place despite the absence of English-language TV service, and even though the Francophone population in the area is very light.
[edit] Translators
CFJC-TV has a rather extensive network of rebroadcast translators to serve outlying communities because of the mountainous areas. Bold stations indicate semi-satellites, which air local commercials, but otherwise are complete repeaters
| Community served | call sign | Channel | Transmitter Power (kW) | Notes |
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| Merritt | CFJC-TV-3 | 8 | 0.009 | |
| Clinton | CFJC-TV-4 | 9 | 0.204 | |
| Williams Lake | CFJC-TV-5 | 8 | 0.009 | |
| 100 Mile House | CFJC-TV-6 | 5 | 0.98 | |
| Chase | CFJC-TV-8 | 11 | 0.005 | |
| Quesnel | CFJC-TV-11 | 7 | 0.009 | |
| Nicola | CFJC-TV-12 | 10 | 0.009 | |
| Pritchard | CFJC-TV | 2 | 0.01 | |
| Cache Creek | CJAC-TV-1 | 10 | 0.009 | |
| Ashcroft | CJAC-TV-2 | 10 | ||
| Savona | CFSC-TV-2 | 8 | 0.009 | |
| Tuktakamin Mountain | CFWS-TV-1 | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Clearwater | CHCW-TV-1 | 2 | 0.02 | CHCW-TV-2 (Channel 10) is a privately-owned repeater transmitter for CFRN-TV (CTV) |
| Anahim Lake | CHIF-TV-1 | 4 | 0.001 | |
| McClure | CHMQ-TV | 3 | 0.01 | |
| Lillooet | CHWS-TV-1 | 11 | 0.01 | |
| Lytton | CHWS-TV-2 | 11 | 0.01 | |
| Barriere | CIQR-TV | 11 | 0.01 | |
| Little Fort | CKIB-TV | 12 | 0.01 | |
| Toosey Indian Reserve | CKOU-TV | 9 | 0.001 | |
| Vavenby | CKVB-TV | 13 | 0.01 | |
| Alexis Creek | CHIL-TV-1 | 8 | 0.005 | |
| Rimrock | CKRR-TV-1 | 9 | 0.005 |
[edit] External links
- CFJC-TV
- CFJC Station History at the Canadian Communications Foundation website
- The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group website
- Description of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
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