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CHCH-TV, Hamilton Projected to Lose $30-million

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Yeziknoradio

CHCH-TV, Hamilton Projected to Lose $30-million
(currently known as one of the E! Canada stations)

"The financial projection is contained in material filed with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to support Canwest's application to renew the station's broadcast licence, and shows the station is expected to bring in just under $41 million in its next fiscal year against costs of more than $69 million."

More info: http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=97502&issue=03182009
 
Those call letters bring back memories. Channel 11 had a killer signal in Buffalo when I was a kid and probably still does. CFTO-9 was a little weaker and CBLT came in too but not as well as the other two. in those days CBLT was on 6 so we're talking a long time ago!
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Those call letters bring back memories. Channel 11 had a killer signal in Buffalo when I was a kid and probably still does. CFTO-9 was a little weaker and CBLT came in too but not as well as the other two. in those days CBLT was on 6 so we're talking a long time ago!
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Currently, CHCH is operating as E!, but not for much longer. Global is either looking for a buyer or shutting the station down.

A third party is wanting to buy it and run it as a community station. I wish them all the best in doing so.

From Feb 26, 2009: http://www.thespec.com/article/520615
 
This could be a fantastic independent station. If you could possible mix Buffalo and Toronto sports programming in with the mix...maybe market it the Voice of the Niagara Horsehoe. Or something like that. We really need a great independent channel with local personality. The days of WPIX and WSBK need to come back.
 
jiminCT said:
This could be a fantastic independent station. If you could possible mix Buffalo and Toronto sports programming in with the mix...maybe market it the Voice of the Niagara Horsehoe. Or something like that. We really need a great independent channel with local personality. The days of WPIX and WSBK need to come back.
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I want to tell you that you're bang on, but the rights to the Buffalo Bills are with Rogers.
They own City TV. (They also own Toronto's Rogers center aka SkyDome, where the Buffalo Bills will be playing a few games...)

The Bills were the best example of a team that both Toronto and Buffalo would gladly cheer for.

Outside of that, you are most likely very correct.
A year or two ago, there was a gentleman (I forget his name) who decided he wanted to launch a community tv station in Niagara falls but
the CRTC rejected his request because Global tv (owners of E!) decided such a station would be too much of a threat to E!.

Now Global wants to wash their hands of E!
Where is that Gentleman now?
I think he deserves to either launch his station or take over CHCH tv, flush out the E! name and give it a go...see what happens.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
A year or two ago, there was a gentleman (I forget his name) who decided he wanted to launch a community tv station in Niagara falls but
the CRTC rejected his request because Global tv (owners of E!) decided such a station would be too much of a threat to E!.

Now Global wants to wash their hands of E!
Where is that Gentleman now?
I think he deserves to either launch his station or take over CHCH tv, flush out the E! name and give it a go...see what happens.
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That was Wendell Wilks. He tried to launch TV Niagara on ch. 22 in St. Catharines. IMO, he had a solid idea and could probably do good things with CHCH, but he'd have to start off in such a large hole, I'm not sure if he'd want to touch that station.

BTW, TVN's website is still up: http://www.tvn.ca
 
Thanks for that link.
Much apreciated!

Now, since CHCH staff members are proposing (or have proposed) a new plan for the troubled station that would allow it to be owned and controlled by community members, perhaps they'll be more cooperative with Mr. Wilks than Global was, perhaps even work as a team to decide what to do with CHCH...

Ah, but would they agree on how to run things?

I wonder if they'd agree to the idea of two tv stations, or just encourage one single source in the end to serve both the Niagara and Hamilton areas.

I also wonder if there's two very different visions of how a community tv station should be run.
 
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