CJPM-DT

CJPM-DT

Saguenay, Quebec
Branding	TVA
Slogan	C'est vrai
Channels	Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 6.1 (PSIP)
Translators	10 CJPM-TV-1 Roberval
Affiliations	TVA
Owner	Groupe TVA (Quebecor Media)
First air date	April 14, 1963
Transmitter power	CJPM-DT: 200 kW CJPM-TV-1: 23.5 kW
Height	CJPM-TV: 107.4 m CJPM-TV-1: 164 m
Transmitter coordinates	CJPM-TV: 48°24′28″N 71°5′4″W CJPM-TV-1: 48°23′20″N 72°5′20″W
Website	TVA Saguenay

CJPM-DT is the TVA owned-and-operated television station in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada.

Owned by the Groupe TVA subsidiary of Quebecor Media, it broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 (or virtual channel 6.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter located at its studios on Rue du Mont Sainte Claire in Chicoutimi. This station can also be seen on Vidéotron channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 604.

History

The station was launched on April 14, 1963. Its owners soon realized that they didn't have the revenue to challenge Radio-Canada affiliate CKRS-TV (now CKTV-TV) on their own. To obtain better programming, CJPM began sharing programs with the biggest privately owned francophone station in Canada, CFTM-TV in Montreal. This was the beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't formally created until 1971 with CJPM as one of its three charter affiliates, the others being CFTM and Quebec City's CFCM-TV.

CJPM's original owners sold the station to Télé-Métropole, owner of CFTM, in 1982. It became a TVA O&O when Télé-Métropole bought majority control of the network in 1990. Since then it has been basically a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts.

CJPM-DT signed on its digital signal on August 29, 2011 from a temporary antenna at Mont Sainte-Claire.

External links

• TVA Saguenay
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CJPM-TV History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CJPM-TV
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CJPM