CJOH-TV
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CJOH-DT is a television station
serving Ottawa
, Ontario
, Canada
, and the surrounding region
. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Television Network
.
CJOH provides CTV network coverage for all of Eastern Ontario
, a large segment of Western Quebec
and portions of Northern New York
, USA
. The station broadcasts on Channel 13 from the Ryan Tower
at Camp Fortune
in Gatineau
, Quebec
(serving Ottawa-Gatineau
); Channel 8 from Lancaster, Ontario (serving Cornwall
and, indirectly, Montreal
); Channel 6 from Deseronto
(serving Kingston
and, indirectly, Watertown, New York) and Channel 47 from Pembroke
. The station is seen on Cable
7 in Ottawa and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.
Since early 2010, the station's studios and offices, including newscast production, have been co-located with CTV Two Ottawa
and Bell Media's Ottawa radio properties in the "Market Media Mall" building in Downtown Ottawa's
ByWard Market
, following a massive fire at the station's previous longtime home on Merivale Road in Nepean
. Newscasts are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., with the 6 p.m. newscast anchored by Carol Anne Meehan
and Graham Richardson
.
Like other CTV-owned stations, CJOH no longer identifies itself on-air by its call letters, having adopted the unified CTV network brand, and its newscasts are also branded CTV News.
It acquired former Cornwall, Ontario CBC
affiliate CJSS
as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first station in Canada to cease operations. The Channel 6 transmitter in Deseronto became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. Standard Broadcasting
owned the station from 1975 to 1988, when it was sold to Baton Broadcasting. Baton was renamed CTV Inc. in 1998 after gaining control of the CTV network the preceding year. CTV in turn would be purchased by Bell Canada
and folded into Bell Globemedia, now Bell Media, in 2001.
In the 1980s and early-1990s, when CTV offered Toronto Blue Jays
baseball, CJOH's channel 8 transmitter in Lancaster/Cornwall had to show alternate programming instead, since the area was considered Montreal Expos
territory. This substitute programming often had no commercials, and often had no definite end, as the length of baseball games varied. This was discontinued when the Blue Jays left CTV.
From 1990 to 1997, the station was co-owned with Pembroke
-based CHRO-TV
, which was for the majority of that period a CTV affiliate for the Upper Ottawa Valley
. In 1997, as part of a major trade, CHRO was transferred to CHUM Limited
, and became a NewNet (later A-Channel) station primarily serving Ottawa. In 2007, CTVglobemedia received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to acquire CHUM; while CTV did not originally plan to keep A-Channel, it decided to do so following a CRTC requirement to sell the Citytv
system. This once again made CJOH and CHRO sister stations in a market with only one other local English-language station, CBOT
. Interestingly, while the CRTC forced the Citytv sale because of concerns about media concentration with multiple stations in the same city, it had no problem allowing the Ottawa twinstick
, apparently due to the precedent set by the stations having common ownership in the 1990s.
CJOH was available on cable in Montreal for most of the 1980s and 1990s, as the Cornwall transmitter's footprint reaches the western Montreal suburbs.
Well-known celebrities who first appeared on CJOH include Rich Little
, The Amazing Kreskin, Alanis Morissette
, Sandra Oh
and Peter Jennings
. Jennings started his professional career with the station during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.
Morissette was briefly part of the cast on a local sketch comedy show, You Can't Do That On Television
, aimed at the pre-teen and teen demographics. Originally conceived as a local and partially live production in 1979, the series became a huge success in the United States for the cable channel Nickelodeon
starting in 1982 and was subsequently screened in many other countries.
The station's newsroom was destroyed by a four-alarm fire during the early morning hours of February 7, 2010, destroying equipment and the station's news archives. The building itself remains intact; however, CJOH's news operations were permanently re-located to CTV's ByWard Market building. This would be the first time the ByWard Market studios would have an evening newscast since the cancellation of sister station CHRO-TV's A News in March 2009. An adjacent office building housing former sister station CKQB-FM
was not affected by the fire.
was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as the show's infamous "green slime." The controversy did not stop the show from becoming a huge hit, locally and eventually globally.
On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor Brian Smith was shot in the station's parking lot by Jeffrey Arenburg
, a released mental patient with a past history of threatening media personalities, who claimed the station was broadcasting messages inside his head. Smith died in hospital the following day. The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control
legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law (Ontario Bill 68) - an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities. Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in Penetanguishene in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2008.
delivered his final news broadcast after 39 years behind the desk and was replaced by Ottawa's CTV national correspondent Graham Richardson. In late October 2010, CJOH introduced a new permanent set in the ByWard Market studios.
On September 10, 2011 CJOH expanded the Saturday edition of its 6 p.m. newscast to one hour; as a result effective September 11, Regional Contact moved from Saturday evenings to Sunday evenings, retaining its 6:30 p.m. timeslot.
Weather team
Sports team
Reporters
All of these rebroadcasters were slated to be shut down on or before August 31, 2009, pending CRTC approval. However, it appears this deadline has been extended a year.
CJOH-TV-8 and a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide were to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid retransmission consent
requirements for cable television
operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTV Globemedia to Bell Canada Enterprises; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.
, the analog services of CJOH-TV stopped on channel 13, and the digital services of CJOH-DT began on the same channel.
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
serving Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, and the surrounding region
National Capital Region (Canada)
The National Capital Region, also referred to as Canada's Capital Region, is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec, and surrounding urban and rural communities....
. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Television Network
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
.
CJOH provides CTV network coverage for all of Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario is a subregion of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River...
, a large segment of Western Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
and portions of Northern New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The station broadcasts on Channel 13 from the Ryan Tower
Ryan Tower
Ryan Tower is a tall guyed mast on the Clifford Slope of Camp Fortune in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada. Erected in 1968, its top is above sea level, making it the highest point in the Ottawa/Gatineau area and an easy-to-spot landmark....
at Camp Fortune
Camp Fortune
Camp Fortune is a commercial alpine ski center. It is located in the Gatineau Hills north of Gatineau, Quebec, approximately 15 minutes from Downtown Ottawa, Ontario....
in Gatineau
Gatineau
Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
(serving Ottawa-Gatineau
National Capital Region (Canada)
The National Capital Region, also referred to as Canada's Capital Region, is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec, and surrounding urban and rural communities....
); Channel 8 from Lancaster, Ontario (serving Cornwall
Cornwall, Ontario
Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St...
and, indirectly, Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
); Channel 6 from Deseronto
Deseronto, Ontario
Deseronto is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, in Hastings County, located on the shore of the Bay of Quinte. The town had a population of 1,824 in the Canada 2006 Census.The town was named for Capt...
(serving Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
and, indirectly, Watertown, New York) and Channel 47 from Pembroke
Pembroke, Ontario
Pembroke is a city in the province of Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley...
. The station is seen on Cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
7 in Ottawa and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.
Since early 2010, the station's studios and offices, including newscast production, have been co-located with CTV Two Ottawa
CHRO-TV
CHRO-TV is a television station serving the National Capital and Ottawa Valley regions of Ontario, Canada. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Two television system....
and Bell Media's Ottawa radio properties in the "Market Media Mall" building in Downtown Ottawa's
Downtown Ottawa
Downtown Ottawa is the central area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Like other downtowns it is the commercial and economic centre of the city. It is sometimes referred to as the Central Business District and contains Ottawa's financial district. It is bordered by the Ottawa River to the north, the...
ByWard Market
Byward Market
ByWard Market is a district in Lower Town located east of the government & business district, surrounding the market buildings and open-air market on George, York, ByWard and William Streets.The district is bordered on the west by Sussex Drive, on the...
, following a massive fire at the station's previous longtime home on Merivale Road in Nepean
Nepean, Ontario
- Recent quantity of snow :- History :Nepean Township, originally known as Township D, was established in 1792 and originally included what is now the central area of Ottawa west of the Rideau River. Jehiel Collins, from Vermont, is believed to have been the first person to settle in Nepean...
. Newscasts are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., with the 6 p.m. newscast anchored by Carol Anne Meehan
Carol Anne Meehan
Carol Anne Meehan is a news anchor at CJOH. Living in Manotick with her two children, she is a graduate of Ryerson University and began her career at CHRO. In 1989 she began co-anchoring the CJOH evening news, then known as Newsline, alongside Max Keeping.-External links:**...
and Graham Richardson
Graham Richardson (journalist)
Graham Richardson is a Canadian television journalist who currently co-anchors CTV-Ottawa's 6 o'clock newscast on CJOH-TV along with Carol Anne Meehan.-Background:...
.
Like other CTV-owned stations, CJOH no longer identifies itself on-air by its call letters, having adopted the unified CTV network brand, and its newscasts are also branded CTV News.
History
Founded by Ernie Bushnell, CJOH signed on for the first time on March 12, 1961. Initially, studio facilities were located at 29 Bayswater Ave (45.4067°N 75.7204°W) until that September when operations were shifted over several weeks to a $2 million complex at 1500 Merivale.It acquired former Cornwall, Ontario CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
affiliate CJSS
CJSS-TV
CJSS-TV was a television station in Cornwall, Ontario. In operation from 1959 to 1963 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, the station was later converted to a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CJOH-TV....
as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first station in Canada to cease operations. The Channel 6 transmitter in Deseronto became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. Standard Broadcasting
Standard Broadcasting
Slaight Communications is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. The company was first formed as Slaight Broadcasting in 1971, when owner J. Allan Slaight acquired CFGM in Richmond Hill...
owned the station from 1975 to 1988, when it was sold to Baton Broadcasting. Baton was renamed CTV Inc. in 1998 after gaining control of the CTV network the preceding year. CTV in turn would be purchased by Bell Canada
Bell Canada
Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories,...
and folded into Bell Globemedia, now Bell Media, in 2001.
In the 1980s and early-1990s, when CTV offered Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
baseball, CJOH's channel 8 transmitter in Lancaster/Cornwall had to show alternate programming instead, since the area was considered Montreal Expos
Montreal Expos
The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 through 2004, holding the first MLB franchise awarded outside the United States. After the 2004 season, MLB moved the Expos to Washington, D.C. and renamed them the Nationals.Named after the Expo 67 World's...
territory. This substitute programming often had no commercials, and often had no definite end, as the length of baseball games varied. This was discontinued when the Blue Jays left CTV.
From 1990 to 1997, the station was co-owned with Pembroke
Pembroke, Ontario
Pembroke is a city in the province of Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley...
-based CHRO-TV
CHRO-TV
CHRO-TV is a television station serving the National Capital and Ottawa Valley regions of Ontario, Canada. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Two television system....
, which was for the majority of that period a CTV affiliate for the Upper Ottawa Valley
Ottawa Valley
The Ottawa Valley is the valley along the boundary between Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec along the Ottawa River. The valley is the transition between the Saint Lawrence Lowlands and the Canadian Shield...
. In 1997, as part of a major trade, CHRO was transferred to CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television affiliate, one...
, and became a NewNet (later A-Channel) station primarily serving Ottawa. In 2007, CTVglobemedia received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to acquire CHUM; while CTV did not originally plan to keep A-Channel, it decided to do so following a CRTC requirement to sell the Citytv
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...
system. This once again made CJOH and CHRO sister stations in a market with only one other local English-language station, CBOT
CBOT (TV)
CBOT-DT is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television station in Ottawa, Ontario. The station's studios are located in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre.-History:...
. Interestingly, while the CRTC forced the Citytv sale because of concerns about media concentration with multiple stations in the same city, it had no problem allowing the Ottawa twinstick
Twinstick
A twinstick, in Canadian broadcasting, is a term for two television stations, broadcasting in the same market, which are owned by the same company...
, apparently due to the precedent set by the stations having common ownership in the 1990s.
CJOH was available on cable in Montreal for most of the 1980s and 1990s, as the Cornwall transmitter's footprint reaches the western Montreal suburbs.
Well-known celebrities who first appeared on CJOH include Rich Little
Rich Little
Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canadian-American impressionist and voice actor. He has long been known throughout the world as a top impersonator of famous people, resulting in his nickname, "The Man of a Thousand Voices"....
, The Amazing Kreskin, Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...
, Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the...
and Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
. Jennings started his professional career with the station during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.
Morissette was briefly part of the cast on a local sketch comedy show, You Can't Do That On Television
You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981...
, aimed at the pre-teen and teen demographics. Originally conceived as a local and partially live production in 1979, the series became a huge success in the United States for the cable channel Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
starting in 1982 and was subsequently screened in many other countries.
The station's newsroom was destroyed by a four-alarm fire during the early morning hours of February 7, 2010, destroying equipment and the station's news archives. The building itself remains intact; however, CJOH's news operations were permanently re-located to CTV's ByWard Market building. This would be the first time the ByWard Market studios would have an evening newscast since the cancellation of sister station CHRO-TV's A News in March 2009. An adjacent office building housing former sister station CKQB-FM
CKQB-FM
CKQB-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts an active rock format at 106.9 FM in Ottawa and 99.9 FM in Pembroke...
was not affected by the fire.
Controversy
You Can't Do That On TelevisionYou Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981...
was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as the show's infamous "green slime." The controversy did not stop the show from becoming a huge hit, locally and eventually globally.
On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor Brian Smith was shot in the station's parking lot by Jeffrey Arenburg
Jeffrey Arenburg
Jeffrey Arenburg is a Canadian gunman, who shot and killed broadcaster Brian Smith in Ottawa on August 1, 1995.Arenburg, a paranoid schizophrenic, had gone to Smith's employer, CJOH, because he thought the station was broadcasting messages in his head...
, a released mental patient with a past history of threatening media personalities, who claimed the station was broadcasting messages inside his head. Smith died in hospital the following day. The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control
Gun control
Gun control is any law, policy, practice, or proposal designed to restrict or limit the possession, production, importation, shipment, sale, and/or use of guns or other firearms by private citizens...
legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law (Ontario Bill 68) - an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities. Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in Penetanguishene in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2008.
CJOH programs
- Strange ParadiseStrange ParadiseStrange Paradise is a Canadian occult / supernatural soap opera of 195 episodes, initially launched in syndication in the United States on September 8, 1969, and later broadcast on CBC Television from October 20, 1969 to July 22, 1970...
- Compass
- Vue (where Peter JenningsPeter JenningsPeter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
made his debut) - Saturday Date
- Platform
- Dear Charlotte
- Uncle Chichimus
- Miss Helen
- The Galloping Gourmet with Graham KerrGraham KerrGraham Kerr is a cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet.- Biography :...
(produced for CBC TelevisionCBC TelevisionCBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
) - Question PeriodQuestion Period (TV series)Question Period is a Canadian television newsmagazine which airs weekly, currently excluding the summer months, on CTV at 11:00 AM ET in Ontario and east, and 4:00 PM local on stations in Western Canada. It also airs on the CTV News Channel at 5:00 PM EST...
- The Amazing KreskinKreskinThe Amazing Kreskin , born George Joseph Kresge, is a mentalist who became popular on North American television in the 1970s...
- Country Way
- Joys of Collecting
- Family Brown Country
- Mr. WizardWatch Mr. WizardMr. Wizard's World, a faster-paced version of the show developed by Don Herbert, was shown three times a week on the then rising kids cable channel Nickelodeon. Once again, the revival was produced in Canada . The show produced 78 episodes from 1983 onwards, and continued to run thereafter as...
(1971–1972) (produced for CBC Television) - Morning Magazine
- Strange ParadiseStrange ParadiseStrange Paradise is a Canadian occult / supernatural soap opera of 195 episodes, initially launched in syndication in the United States on September 8, 1969, and later broadcast on CBC Television from October 20, 1969 to July 22, 1970...
(produced for CBC Television) - Uncle Willy & Floyd
- You Can't Do That on TelevisionYou Can't Do That on TelevisionYou Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981...
- Marie-SoleilMarie-SoleilMarie-Soleil was a Canadian children's television show in the 1980s. The show, starring children's entertainer Suzanne Pinel, used stories and songs to teach French to anglophone kids....
- Homegrown CafeHomegrown CafeHomegrown Cafe was a local-talent show that aired on CJOH in Ottawa, during the 1980s and 1990s. It showcased much of the city's talented youth and adults, some of whom went on to pursue professional careers.The show was hosted by J.J...
- Regional Contact with Joel Haslam & Kathie Donovan
News operation
On March 26, 2010, long-time evening anchor Max KeepingMax Keeping
Winston Maxwell Keeping, CM, O.Ont, D.U., LLD known as Max Keeping, is a Canadian broadcaster. He is the former Vice-President of news and public affairs at CJOH where he was anchor of the local evening news broadcast from 1972 until his retirement in 2010...
delivered his final news broadcast after 39 years behind the desk and was replaced by Ottawa's CTV national correspondent Graham Richardson. In late October 2010, CJOH introduced a new permanent set in the ByWard Market studios.
On September 10, 2011 CJOH expanded the Saturday edition of its 6 p.m. newscast to one hour; as a result effective September 11, Regional Contact moved from Saturday evenings to Sunday evenings, retaining its 6:30 p.m. timeslot.
Newscast titles
- CJOH-TV News (1980s–early 1990s)
- Midday Newsline/Newsline/Nightline (early 1990s–1998)
- CJOH News (1998–2005)
- CTV NewsCTV NewsCTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada. The name CTV News is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations , which are closely tied to the national news division...
(2005–present)
Station slogans
- "More to See" (1978–1979)
- "You Never Looked Better!" (1979–1980)
- "Here for You!" (late 1980s–1994)
- "We Are Ottawa, We Are CTV." (1994–2008)
- "Ottawa's News Leader" (2003–present)
News team
Anchors/Hosts- Paul Brent - host of Tech Now
- Leigh Chapple - weeknights at 11:30 p.m.
- Leanne Cusack - weekdays at noon
- Kathie Donovan - co-host of Regional Contact
- Joel Haslam - co-host of Regional Contact
- Carol Anne MeehanCarol Anne MeehanCarol Anne Meehan is a news anchor at CJOH. Living in Manotick with her two children, she is a graduate of Ryerson University and began her career at CHRO. In 1989 she began co-anchoring the CJOH evening news, then known as Newsline, alongside Max Keeping.-External links:**...
- weeknights at 6 p.m. - Michael O'Byrne - weekdays at noon
- Graham RichardsonGraham Richardson (journalist)Graham Richardson is a Canadian television journalist who currently co-anchors CTV-Ottawa's 6 o'clock newscast on CJOH-TV along with Carol Anne Meehan.-Background:...
- weeknights at 6 p.m. - Kimothy Walker - weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m.
Weather team
- JJ Clarke - lead weather anchor; weeknights at 6 and 11:30 p.m.
- Eric Longley - weather anchor; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m., also entertainment reporter
- Jeff Hopper - weather anchor; occasional fill-in
- Marlene Murray - weather anchor; occasional fill-in
- Melanie Serjak - weather anchor; occasional fill-in
- Stuntman Stu - weather anchor; fill-in
Sports team
- Terry Marcotte - sports director; weeknights at 11:30 p.m.
- Corey Ginther - sports anchor; weeknights at 6 p.m.
- Carolyn WaldoCarolyn WaldoCarolyn Jane Waldo, is a former synchronized swimmer from Canada.Competing both as a solo and as part of a duo with Michelle Cameron, Waldo experienced tremendous success in international competition...
- sports anchor; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m. - Brent Wallace - sports anchor; fill-in
- Ken EvraireKen EvraireKen Evraire is a television journalist, host and former professional football league player.At the university level, he played as a slotback , for the Golden Hawks of the Wilfrid Laurier University from 1985 to 1988...
- sports reporter
Reporters
- Kate Eggins - general assignment reporter
- Norman Fetterley - general assignment reporter
- John Hua - general assignment reporter
- Stefan Keyes - general assignment reporter
- Catherine Lathem - general assignment reporter
- Vanessa Lee - general assignment reporter
- Natalie Pierosara - general assignment reporter
- Jonathan Rotondo - general assignment reporter
- John Ruttle - assignment editor
- Joanne Schnurr - general assignment reporter
- Karen Soloman - general assignment reporter
Former on-air staff
- Carole-Anne Guay - reporter (now senior anchor at Global Edmonton
- Peter JenningsPeter JenningsPeter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
- anchor (later at ABC NewsABC NewsABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
; deceased) - Max KeepingMax KeepingWinston Maxwell Keeping, CM, O.Ont, D.U., LLD known as Max Keeping, is a Canadian broadcaster. He is the former Vice-President of news and public affairs at CJOH where he was anchor of the local evening news broadcast from 1972 until his retirement in 2010...
- 6 p.m. anchor (now CTV Ottawa's Community Ambassador) - Brian Smith - sports anchor
Transmitters
| Station | City of licence City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... |
Channel Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... |
ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... |
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| CJOH-TV-6 | Deseronto Deseronto, Ontario Deseronto is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, in Hastings County, located on the shore of the Bay of Quinte. The town had a population of 1,824 in the Canada 2006 Census.The town was named for Capt... |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
100 kW | 204.5 m | 44°8′30"N 77°4′33"W |
| CJOH-TV-8 CJSS-TV CJSS-TV was a television station in Cornwall, Ontario. In operation from 1959 to 1963 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, the station was later converted to a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CJOH-TV.... |
Cornwall Cornwall, Ontario Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St... |
8 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
260 kW | 187.5 m | 45°10′34"N 74°31′36"W |
| CJOH-TV-47 | Pembroke Pembroke, Ontario Pembroke is a city in the province of Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley... |
47 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
492 kW | 125.7 m | 45°50′2"N 77°9′49"W |
All of these rebroadcasters were slated to be shut down on or before August 31, 2009, pending CRTC approval. However, it appears this deadline has been extended a year.
CJOH-TV-8 and a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide were to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid retransmission consent
Retransmission consent
Retransmission consent is an option granted to US television stations as part of the law that granted such stations the option to elect must-carry rights. Under retransmission consent, a full-power US television station may elect to negotiate with a cable system operator for carriage of its...
requirements for cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTV Globemedia to Bell Canada Enterprises; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.
Digital television and high definition
CJOH has made its network programming available in standard definition on Bell TV (ch.229) and in high definition through Videotron (ch. 607) and Rogers Digital Cable (ch. 518),. On August 31, 2011, as part of the analog television shutdown and digital conversionDigital television in Canada
Digital television in Canada is transmitted using the ATSC standards developed for and in use in the United States. Because Canada and the U.S...
, the analog services of CJOH-TV stopped on channel 13, and the digital services of CJOH-DT began on the same channel.