CJBN-TV Kenora - Canada AM promo 2003
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- Published: 2010-07-10
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Jeff Hutchison again, this time in a localized promo for Canada AM on CJBN Kenora (then known unofficially as CJTV).
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The station is owned by Shaw Communications, which acquired the station in 2006 as part of its purchase of local cable company Norcom Telecommunications. It is currently one of only two CTV-affiliated stations in Canada that are not owned and operated directly by CTV. Although Shaw acquired the Global Television Network in late 2010, the company does not currently plan to make CJBN a Global owned-and-operated station, Its main method of distribution is via Shaw's (and others') cable and satellite services.
Since its launch, the station's programming has been primarily sourced from CTV, with the remainder of the schedule rounded out by Global and syndicated programming, although the exact balance has varied from season to season. As with many smaller independently-owned Canadian stations, there are also several infomercials throughout any given day's schedule.
In 2008, CJBN began airing a news and issues show called Points North which airs eight times per week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 6:30pm & 11:30pm and Saturday & Sunday at 6:30pm. It also airs other special programs aimed at tourists and local residents.
CJBN also airs a half hour regional news program, "Northwest Newsweek," which is produced in Thunder Bay, Ontario by Thunder Bay Television.
TruTV anchor Ashleigh Banfield began her career at the station.
The station came about after Norcom applied to operate a Central Time Zone Satellite Relay Distribution System (SRDU), and as such, needed a CTV signal. Winnipeg's CKY, which was the closest CTV affiliate to Kenora, was unavailable, so Norcom applied for, and was successful in gaining their own CTV station. The company also planned to set up a series of rebroadcasting stations to expand into nearby areas, but when Cancom secured the main licence for the Northern Service uplink, Norcom was left with just CJBN. With the local economy dependent on the pulp and paper industry, the station's future remained precarious, especially with the increase of competing satellite services available in the area.
In 1983, the station proposed setting up rebroadcast transmitters in nearby communities:
In 1988, the station told the CRTC that they could not afford to construct the rebroadcast transmitters, and would remain with just one transmitter in Kenora. In place of the rebroadcast transmitters, the station is carried on cable in Red Lake, Sioux Lookout and Ear Falls. In 1985, CJBN-TV increased its power to 177.5 watts. In 1999, the station was brought before the CRTC to explain the lack of Canadian content, but two years later, its licence was renewed, once evidence of renewed effort toward Canadian content was proven. In 2000, CJBN started to brand itself as CJTV but would revert back to the CJBN-TV designation after their purchase by Shaw Communications. And in 2004, cable systems in nearby areas and national satellite services began to carry CJBN. In June 2004, the CRTC renewed the licence for another seven years, until 2011.
On August 9, 2006, Shaw Communications announced an agreement to purchase Norcom, including CJBN. As Shaw itself did not previously own any broadcast assets, there was some speculation that the struggling CJBN would be resold to CTV to become a repeater of CKY-TV (Shaw had itself sold CKY to CTV following a similar acquisition in 2001). However, the company decided to keep CJBN. CRTC approval to this sale was announced in November 2006.
Shaw Communications acquired Canwest's broadcasting assets, including the Global network, in 2010. In response to deficiency questions from the CRTC regarding its application to acquire those assets, made public in July 2010, Shaw stated that it had no plans to disaffiliate CJBN from CTV and make the Kenora station a full Global O&O.; The cable provider said it would negotiate to extend CJBN's affiliation agreement with CTV, which was set to expire on August 31, 2010 at the time.
After the analogue television shutdown and digital conversion, which takes place on August 31, 2011, CJBN-DT is scheduled to broadcast on channel 13; however, before the transition, the station should broadcast on channel 16.
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