| City of license | Sherbrooke, Quebec |
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| Branding | Radio-Canada Estrie |
| Slogan | Ici comme dans la vie |
| Channels | Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9.1 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Radio-Canada |
| Owner | Société Radio-Canada |
| First air date | September 19, 1974 |
| Call letters' meaning | CK SHerbrooke |
| Former callsigns | CKSH-TV (1974-2011) |
| Transmitter power | 1.37 kW |
| Height | 585.9 m |
| Website | Radio-Canada Estrie |
CKSH-DT is a television station in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It is an owned-and-operated station of the Radio-Canada network in the Estrie region.
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The station first aired on September 19, 1974. As a privately owned station, CKSH basically functioned as a semi-satellite of CBFT-DT in Montreal due to not having alternative non-network sources of programming available. The station had been owned directly by Cogeco prior to the latter's majority acquisition of TQS (now V), to which Cogeco contributed its existing local stations. Radio-Canada took editorial control of the station's news programming in 2002, although it currently shares a studio with former TQS sister station CFKS-DT.
CKSH is seen on cable television systems throughout New England, serving the French American community. It serves as a vital link to the Québécois culture in these communities.
In September 2007, Radio-Canada announced that it would not renew its affiliation agreement with its three Cogeco-owned affiliates — CKSH, CKTM-TV in Trois-Rivières and CKTV-TV in Saguenay — after their then-current agreement expired in August 2008. An application to directly acquire the station was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to Remstar Corporation.[1] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008.[2]
Now that Radio-Canada owns the station, it intends to increase local programming and to relocate all of its radio and television facilities in the region into an integrated production centre.[3]
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which took place on August 31, 2011,[4] CKSH has shut down its analog transmitter at midnight on September 1st, 2011 and started digital broadcasts on its old analog channel number, 9. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display CKSH's virtual channel as 9.1.
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