CFTV-DT
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| Leamington, Ontario | |
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| Branding |
CFTV-DT 34 CFTV 34 Action News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Community Focus Television |
| Channels | Digital: 34 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | Independent Station/Community |
| Owner | Southshore Broadcasting Inc. |
| Founded | December 29, 2005 |
| Call letters' meaning | Community Focus Television |
| Former callsigns | CFTV-TV (2005-2012) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 34 (2005-2012) |
| Transmitter power | 587 (max 1000) watts |
| Height | 27 m (88 ft 7 in) |
| Website | http://www.cftvdt.tv/ |
CFTV-DT is a low-power community television station in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, which began broadcasting in late 2005. 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 and can be seen on local cablesystems on channel 100.
Its signal broadcasts from its rooftop transmitter on the top of the Leamington Towers apartment building, and 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 as the over the air signal is too weak to be received in the city nor is the station available on cable.
Beginning of transmissions
On 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, Bell ExpressVu channel 586, and Gosfield North IPTV 34.
Digital television
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 was not required to flash-cut on its current channel to digital operations on August 31, 2011.
On August 17, 2012, the CRTC approved the station's request to begin broadcasting in digital on its current channel, 34. In addition, the station has also received permission to carry four subchannels, making it the first station in Canada to launch original content on its multiplex channels.[2]
| Channel | Label | Format | Programming |
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| 34.1 | CFTV-DT1 | 480i | Independent/Community |
| 34.2 | CFTV-DT2 | 480i | French independent (6AM-6PM)/Spanish independent (6PM-6AM) |
| 34.3 | CFTV-DT3 | 480i | Caldwell/Kettle Point/Stoney Point First Nation and special needs/described video programming |
| 34.4 | CFTV-DT4 | 480i | Leamington and Essex County council meetings/Local news |
References
External links
- CFTV
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFTV-TV
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CFTV
- Tony Vidal interview on The Current
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