CKMI-TV
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| CKMI-TV | |
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| Quebec City / Montreal, Quebec | |
| Branding | Global Quebec |
| Channels | Analog: 20 (UHF) in Quebec City CKMI-TV-1 46 (UHF) in Montreal CKMI-TV-2 11 (VHF) in Sherbrooke Digital: not yet on air |
| Affiliations | Global (secondary 1982-92, sole affiliate since 1997) |
| Owner | Canwest (Canwest Media Inc.) |
| Founded | March 17, 1957 |
| Former channel number(s) | 5 (VHF) (1957-1997) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1957-97) |
| Website | globaltv.com/quebec |
CKMI-TV is the Global Television Network's station in the Canadian province of Quebec. The station is licenced to Quebec City on channel 20. The station has semi-satellites in Montreal (CKMI-TV-1, channel 46) and Sherbrooke (CKMI-TV-2, channel 11). It is owned by Canwest.
Officially, its main studio is located in Sainte-Foy, a former suburb of Quebec City which is now a part of the city. However, its master production facilities are in Montreal.
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[edit] History
The station was founded in 1957 on VHF channel 5 as the second privately owned station in Quebec, co-owned by Télévision de Québec along with the province's first private station, CFCM-TV. Télévision de Québec was a consortium of theatre chain Famous Players and Quebec City's two privately-owned radio stations, CHRC and CKCV. It immediately became Quebec City's CBC Television affiliate, taking all English programming from CFCM. When CFCM disaffiliated from Radio-Canada (the French language arm of the CBC), CKMI remained with CBC.
Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 due to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) new rules requiring radio and television stations to be 80% Canadian-owned. The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Eventually, Famous Players reduced its shares to 20% by 1971, allowing Télévision de Québec to keep CKMI and CFCM.[1] The company renamed itself Télé-Capitale in 1974.
For much of its history, CKMI was co-owned with CFCM, which eventually affiliated with TVA. As such, it was bought by Pathonic in 1979, and then by Télé-Metropole (which changed its name to TVA) in 1989. For many years, it was known on-air as "MI-5."
It began airing some Global shows in the early 1980s. However, CKMI faced severe financial problems for most of its history, in large part because of the area's tiny anglophone population (Quebec City, unlike Montreal, is a virtually unilingual francophone city). For example, its only local newscast was a five-minute update.
By 1992, these problems forced CKMI to drop all non-CBC programming and become a de facto repeater of Montreal's CBC O&O, CBMT. It even carried CBMT's newscasts, though CKMI aired its own five-minute newscast, Inside Quebec, before CBMT's Newswatch on weeknights.
Relief didn't come until 1997, when TVA sold controlling interest in the station to Izzy Asper's Canwest, while retaining 49% interest. TVA and Canwest formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of CKMI and disaffiliated the station from CBC, making it a Global station. As part of the deal, CKMI moved to channel 20, while the CBC took over the channel 5 position as a rebroadcaster of CBMT. CKMI then added semi-satellites in Montreal and Sherbrooke. The CKMI purchase gave Canwest's stations enough coverage of Canada that shortly after the deal was closed, it rebranded its stations as the Global Television Network. In 2002, Global bought out TVA's remaining interest in CKMI.
CKMI isn't allowed to show local commercials because it is officially classified as a regional broadcaster. However, despite the "Global Quebec" moniker, the station is basically a Montreal station, with occasional Quebec City and Sherbrooke news stories being thrown in to make it appear that the station is in compliance with its licence conditions. It can be argued that this is because the great majority of the province's anglophones live in Montreal.
Even though it is technically licenced to Quebec City, the station now sends its signal to the Montreal transmitter first, meaning that in practice CKMI-TV-1 is the main transmitter.
Currently the station airs a 30-minute newscast at 6:00 pm (Evening News) and a 1-hour newscast at 11:00 pm (News Final) seven days a week (On Saturdays, News Final is shorted to a half hour due to Saturday Night Live). Before March 2008, Global Quebec aired a morning show ("This Morning Live"), the Evening News at 6:00, and no weekend newscasts. "This Morning Live" aired its final program on February 27, 2008, as it fell victim to budget cuts made by Canwest four months prior. News Final was cancelled due to low ratings in June 2006, but has been brought back to the schedule.
Canwest blames Global Quebec's poor financial performance on a) not being able to sell local advertising in Montreal, like its English competitor CFCF-TV, and b) Canada's two satellite television providers, Bell ExpressVu and Star Choice, for not adding Global Quebec to their channel lineups for satellite viewers in Quebec.
[edit] Newscasts
- Evening News (Weeknights 6:00pm)
- Jamie Orchard
- Anthony Farnell (Meteorologist)
- News Final (Weeknights 11:00pm)
- Amanda Jelowicki
- Anthony Farnell (Meteorologist)
- Jay Durant (Sports)
- Weekend Evening News (6:00pm) & News Final (11:00pm)
- Mike LeCouteur
- Michelle Jobin (Weather)
- Barry Deley (Sports - News Final only)
- Focus Montreal (Sunday 11:30pm)
- Jamie Orchard
[edit] Previous logos
 MI5 logo, used during the years of CBC affiliation. |
 Former Global Quebec logo, used from 1997 to 2006. |
[edit] References
http://thesuburban.com/content.jsp?sid=84544469813240410354139956939&ctid=1000004&cnid=1014283
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