CJOH in Deseronto

[jiminCT]

Since they are turning off the analogue signal at the end of the summer...does anyone inside the cable TV world know what the Kingston and Belleville cable systems will do for CTV service?

 

[compubit]

My guess would either be through a Microwave connection or using an SRDU (Bell or Shaw) to get the feed... (the same way the systems get signals from other markets for timeshifting purposes).

 

[mjlarochelle]

Belleville already gets CFTO on cable in addition to CJOH.

CJOH might not get to turn off the Deseronto transmitter. Myself and at least one other person filed interventions with the CRTC protesting the proposal, and with the transmitter serving an area with easy access to OTA signals from Watertown, the CRTC very well might not entertain the idea since CKWS, TVO and CBLFT would be the only Canadian signals in Kingston if CJOH-6 went away (and CHEX in Belleville as well).

 

[jiminCT]

I suspect they will turn off the signal...cable and satellite customers will have access to the Toronto or Ottawa feeds. Corus could get into the CTV game with a subchannel off of CKWS. Or if Global goes bust...use the Bancroft HDTV allocation for CTV service for Belleville and Kingston.

 

[azumanga]

Corus could get into the CTV game with a subchannel off of CKWS. Or if Global goes bust...use the Bancroft HDTV allocation for CTV service for Belleville and Kingston.

Except that there are no digital signals in operation yet in Ontario, other than the Toronto and Ottawa areas. Also, is CTV still allowing new private affiliates into the network? Other than privately-owned affiliates in Lloydminster, Thunder Bay and Kenora, all other stations are CTV-owned.

The Bancroft transmitter won't do any good either -- their B-Grade signal doesn't even reach Belleville or Kingston:

http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?cantv=CIII-TV-2&jaws=0

In terms of Global, Belleville already gets Global programming from Peterborough:

http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?cantv=CIII-TV-27&jaws=0

Personally, even though CTV will be closing Deseronto (as well as a CFTO repeater in Peterborough), they will probably resist calls from other parties to open up their own CTV station, as CTV would still consider the affected area part of their territory, albeit only on cable.

 

[jiminCT]

The Bancroft signal you listed was analog. The HDTV allocation is channel 8. Whether they use it or not is currently up to Global...but if they go bankrupt...it is possible that CTV could use it as a repeater of the Toronto or Ottawa CTV affiliate. And a private CTV affiliate in Kingston could work....there are 300,000 people between Kingston-Belleville-Brockville-and Watertown NY. Corus would certainly have a deliver method with CKWS's digital tower...which will blanket the area quite well in 2011.


BTW...I pick up the Channel 2 signal (Bancroft Global) quite well in the 1000 Islands (new York side)...which is a 90 mile shot from the tower. That signal blankets Kingston and Belleville quite well actually....thats why the tower was put there. The coverage map..like many of them are pretty inaccurate.