| Leamington, Ontario | |
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| Slogan | Community Focus Television |
| Channels | Analog: 34 (UHF), 100 on Digital Cable Digital: none |
| Affiliations | Independent station |
| Owner | Southshore Broadcasting Inc. |
| Founded | December 29, 2005 |
| Call letters' meaning | Community Focus Television |
| Transmitter power | 2.1kw (analog) |
CFTV is a low-power community television station in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, which began broadcasting in early 2006. The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 2003.[1]
CFTV, is owned and operated by a local non-profit consortium known as Southshore Broadcasting, and broadcasts on channel 34.
Its signal reaches as far as Harrow, Tilbury, and the village of South Woodslee in the town of Lakeshore. Currently, viewers in Windsor are unable to view the station, because the signal does not reach the city, however the station has stated in email replies from viewers that they do intend to increase the strength of their transmitter and cover Windsor and all of Essex County very soon.
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On Wednesday, March 8, 2006, the Windsor Star stated that CFTV would begin regular transmissions on March 9, 2006 at 6:00 PM. In the March 17, 2006 edition of the Windsor Star, it was confirmed that Leamington Municipal Council had allocated $12,000 per year to broadcast council meetings on the station. CFTV is available on Cogeco digital cable channel 100.
The station will be required to move from channel 34 to an alternate channel if its current channel assignment is found to cause interference to CBEFT's DTV broadcasts on channel 35, once CBEFT's DTV operations begin. In replies to questions asked via email, the CRTC has stated that CFTV is not required to convert to digital, because it is a low-powered station fairly far from Windsor-Detroit, and thus, has not received a digital assignment and will probably not be flash-cutting on its current channel to digital operations on August 31. Furthermore, CBC/Radio-Canada has announced plans to delay conversion of CBET (which will instead broadcast in digital on channel 9) no later than August 31, 2012, but has provided no conversion timetable for rebroadcasters such as CBEFT, which may be delayed beyond the national conversion date of August 31, 2011.[2]
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