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CJBN Kenora to shut down

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Shaw Communications has filed a letter with the CRTC this month letting the Commission know it has withdrawn its application to renew the broadcast license of CJBN-TV Kenora, its local TV station serving the northwestern Ontario community, and that it plans to shutter the station.

A Global Television affiliate which airs a schedule pretty close to Global TV’s Winnipeg station, CJBN also offers some local programming including a half hour show called Good Morning Sunset Country and another called Fishing with Gussy.

The station has not been profitable for some time as the ad market in Kenora and area is quite small, and has been relying on the Small Market Local Programming Fund to stay afloat. The station received $313,400 from that fund in the 2015 broadcast year (the last data available on the CRTC web site). That fund is being replaced by the new Independent Local News Fund in 2017. It is also still an analog station and did not make the transition to high definition.

In an emailed statement to Cartt.ca, a Shaw VP communications and public relations Chethan Lakshman outlined the reasons for the closure.

"Following an extensive review of our programming operations in Kenora, Ontario, we have made the decision to close CJBN due to duplication of service. The station’s two originally produced programs will air on Shaw TV moving forward. In addition, the community of Kenora will continue to have access to locally driven programming on Shaw TV. All Global-affiliated programming that airs on CJBN can continue to be accessed through Global Winnipeg.

"We notified employees of the change earlier this month. Three positions have been affected by the station closure. The station is set to close on January 27, 2017.”
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https://cartt.ca/article/updated-shaw-close-cjbn-tv (will be paywalled soon)
 
hmmm.....according to the station's Wikipedia article:

It is, with just 178 watts of power, the lowest-powered television station operating on a regular license in North America.

At that power it would seem to be not very expensive to operate. At least as a repeater of the Winnipeg station.
 
Last source of local programming in Kenora - and the entire region, a very desolate area of Canada. Guess TV viewers will have to watch Winnipeg news with almost zero Kenora/Fort Frances/Dryden news stories.
 
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