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CFTM-DT
Montreal, Quebec; Canada;
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF); Virtual: 10.1;
Branding	TVA (general); TVA Nouvelles (newscasts);
Programming
Affiliations	TVA
Ownership
Owner	{{ublGroupe TVA Inc.\|(Quebecor Media)}}
History
First air date	February 19, 1961 (63 years ago)
Former affiliations	Independent (1961–1971)
Call sign meaning	Canal Francophone Télé-Métropole
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	11 kW
HAAT	292 m (958 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°30′20″N 73°35′30″W / 45.50556°N 73.59167°W
Links
Website	TVA

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CFTM-DT (channel 10) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, serving as the flagship of the French-language network TVA. Owned by Groupe TVA, the station has studios on Boulevard de Maisonneuve East and Rue Alexandre de Sève in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, and its transmitter is located on Voie Camillien Houde (near Mount Royal).

History

It opened on February 19, 1961, a few weeks after CFCF-TV went on the air for the first time. It was owned by Joseph Alexandre de Sève and his company, Télé-Métropole. At first it relied primarily on kinescopes from RTL, and also from Télé Monte Carlo, but it wasn't long before it settled into a more peculiar and local form. On April 14, 1963, CFTM started sharing programs with CJPM-TV in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay) in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region on the day the latter station signed on. They were joined by CFCM-TV in Quebec City in 1964. This was the informal beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't officially established until September 12, 1971. When de Sève died in 1968, the city government renamed the street in front of CFTM's studios rue Alexandre de Sève in his honour.

CFTM has always been by far the largest station in the TVA network. As such, it dominated the network long before Télé-Métropole bought majority control of TVA in 1990. At one point, CFTM produced as much as 90 percent of TVA's programming. Even today, TVA's network feed is little more than a retransmission of CFTM. Whenever CFTM has to interrupt its programming for breaking news or weather alerts in Montreal, the entire network usually gets interrupted as well.

CFTM-TV was essentially available on satellite beginning November 1, 1981, as TCTV, carried via Cancom by cable television operators across Canada, though not in most major cities. TCTV carried mainly the same programs as CFTM, but with some local news and programming from other TVA affiliates.

The TCTV service ended when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved TVA for a national network license in 1998. Since May 1, 1999, all Canadian cable companies have been required to carry a TVA station. CFTM is the affiliate carried in most markets outside of Quebec — excepting some markets in Northern Ontario, Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick, which have long carried the stations in adjacent markets. The station also provides a time-shifted feed for cable companies in western Canada, delayed three hours after the original broadcast, matching up with Pacific Time.

Digital television and high definition

CFTM received CRTC approval in March 2006 for its request to broadcast digitally on UHF channel 59^[2] and was granted a requested extension to August 31, 2009, to launch this service but the launch never occurred.^[3] On July 6, 2009, as part of a license renewal hearing, TVA was granted a second extension in which to launch CFTM-DT.

During the analogue television shutdown and digital conversion, which took place on August 31, 2011,^[4] CFTM silenced its analogue transmitter on September 1, 2011, at 12:01 a.m. during a movie's airing and began broadcasting a digital signal a few minutes later on its old analog channel number, 10.

References

External links

Official website (in French)
TVA News - Montréal (in French)
CFTM-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
CFTM at TV Hat
CFTM-DT in the REC Canadian station database

[1] Ownership Chart 156A – QUEBECOR – TV & Discretionary Services

[2] Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006–78, 15 March 2006, re: TVA Group Inc, Montréal, Québec

[3] Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-0050-0 17 March 2008, approval of extension to 31 August 2009 to commence operation of transitional digital television at CFTM-TV Montréal

[Analog_to_Digital-4] "Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs - What You Need to Know About the Analog-to-Digital Television Transition in Canada". Archived from the original on September 16, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2012.

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+| owner                  = {{ubl[[Groupe TVA Inc.]]|([[Quebecor Media]])}}<ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht156a.pdf Ownership Chart 156A – QUEBECOR – TV & Discretionary Services]</ref>
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-'''CFTM-DT''' (channel 10) is a [[television station]] in [[Montreal|Montreal, Quebec]], Canada, serving as the [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] of the [[Canadian French|French-language]] [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]] network. Owned by [[Groupe TVA]], the station has studios on Boulevard de Maisonneuve East and Rue Alexandre de Sève in the [[Ville-Marie, Montreal|Ville-Marie]] borough of Montreal, and its transmitter is located on Voie Camillien Houde (near [[Mount Royal]]).
+'''CFTM-DT''' (channel 10) is a [[television station]] in [[Montreal, Quebec]], Canada, serving as the [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] of the [[Canadian French|French-language]] network [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]]. Owned by [[Groupe TVA]], the station has studios on Boulevard de Maisonneuve East and Rue Alexandre de Sève in the [[Ville-Marie, Montreal|Ville-Marie]] borough of Montreal, and its transmitter is located on Voie Camillien Houde (near [[Mount Royal]]).
 ==History==
 [[Image:CFTM-TV 1969 logo.jpg|thumb|left|100px|CFTM-TV's third logo used from 1969 until 1978, as "CFTM 10".]]
-It opened on February 19, 1961, a few weeks after [[CFCF-DT|CFCF-TV]] went on the air for the first time. It was owned by Joseph Alexandre de Sève and his company, Télé-Métropole. At first it relied primarily on kinescopes from [[RTL Group|RTL]], and also from [[Télé Monte Carlo]], but it wasn't long before it settled into a more peculiar and local form. On April 14, 1963, CFTM started sharing programs with [[CJPM-DT|CJPM-TV]] in [[Chicoutimi]] (now [[Saguenay, Quebec|Saguenay]]) in the [[Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]] region on the day the latter station signed on. They were joined by [[CFCM-DT|CFCM-TV]] in [[Quebec City]] in 1964. This was the informal beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't officially established until September 12, 1971. When de Sève died in 1968, the city government renamed the street in front of CFTM's studios ''rue Alexandre de Sève'' in his honour.
+It opened on February 19, 1961, a few weeks after [[CFCF-TV]] went on the air for the first time. It was owned by Joseph Alexandre de Sève and his company, {{lang|fr|italic=no|Télé-Métropole}}. At first it relied primarily on kinescopes from [[RTL Group|RTL]], and also from [[Télé Monte Carlo]], but it wasn't long before it settled into a more peculiar and local form. On April 14, 1963, CFTM started sharing programs with [[CJPM-TV]] in [[Chicoutimi]] (now [[Saguenay, Quebec|Saguenay]]) in the [[Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]] region on the day the latter station signed on. They were joined by [[CFCM-TV]] in [[Quebec City]] in 1964. This was the informal beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't officially established until September 12, 1971. When de Sève died in 1968, the city government renamed the street in front of CFTM's studios {{lang|fr|rue Alexandre de Sève}} in his honour.
 CFTM has always been by far the largest station in the TVA network. As such, it dominated the network long before Télé-Métropole bought majority control of TVA in 1990. At one point, CFTM produced as much as 90 percent of TVA's programming. Even today, TVA's network feed is little more than a retransmission of CFTM. Whenever CFTM has to interrupt its programming for breaking news or weather alerts in Montreal, the entire network usually gets interrupted as well.
-CFTM-TV was essentially available on satellite beginning November 1, 1981, as '''TCTV''', carried via [[Shaw Broadcast Services|Cancom]] by cable television operators across Canada, though not in most major cities. TCTV carried mainly the same programs as CFTM, but with some local news and programming from other TVA affiliates.
+CFTM-TV was essentially available on satellite beginning November 1, 1981, as '''TCTV''', carried via [[Cancom]] by cable television operators across Canada, though not in most major cities. TCTV carried mainly the same programs as CFTM, but with some local news and programming from other TVA affiliates.
-The TCTV service ended when the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) approved TVA for a national network license in 1998. Since May 1, 1999, all Canadian cable companies have been required to carry a TVA station. CFTM is the affiliate carried in most markets outside of Quebec — excepting some markets in [[Northern Ontario]], [[Eastern Ontario]] and [[New Brunswick]], which have long carried the stations in adjacent markets. The station also provides a time-shifted feed for cable companies in western Canada, delayed three hours after the original broadcast, matching up with [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific Time]].
+The TCTV service ended when the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) approved TVA for a national network license in 1998. Since May 1, 1999, all Canadian cable companies have been required to carry a TVA station. CFTM is the affiliate carried in most markets outside of Quebec — excepting some markets in [[Northern Ontario]], [[Eastern Ontario]] and [[New Brunswick]], which have long carried the stations in adjacent markets. The station also provides a time-shifted feed for cable companies in western Canada, delayed three hours after the original broadcast, matching up with [[Pacific Time]].
 == Digital television and high definition==
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+[[Category:1961 establishments in Quebec]]
+[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1961]]
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 [[Category:TVA (Canadian TV network) stations|FTM-DT]]
-[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1961]]
-[[Category:1961 establishments in Quebec]]

v t e Broadcast television in the Montreal market
Local stations in French (_DTV)	CBFT-DT (2.1 Ici R-C) CFTM-DT (10.1 TVA) CIVM-DT (17.1 TQc) CFTU-DT (29.1 Ind.) CFJP-DT (35.1 Noovo) CFHD-DT (47.1 Ind./Omni)
Local stations in English (_DTV)	CBMT-DT (6.1 CBC) CFCF-DT (12.1 CTV) CKMI-DT (15.1 Global) CJNT-DT (62.1 Citytv)
Defunct	CHOY-TV 4 _Analog (Ind, Saint-Jérôme)
Cable television	CUTV MATV MétéoMédia (Metro Montreal Feed)
See also List of Quebec stations Quebec TV Burlington/Plattsburgh TV Quebec City TV Ottawa-Gatineau TV

v t e TVA stations
Owned-and-operated stations	CFTM-DT Montreal CFCM-DT Quebec City CFER-DT Rimouski CJPM-DT Saguenay CHLT-DT Sherbrooke CHEM-DT Trois-Rivières
Affiliates	CHAU-DT Carleton-sur-Mer CHOT-DT Gatineau/Ottawa CIMT-DT Rivière-du-Loup CFEM-DT Rouyn-Noranda
See also	List of programs broadcast by TVA