Hotel Cable Report-Hotel Universel, Riviere-du-Loup QC

[Bluenoser]

Thought I`d file a hotel cable report from north of the border from the hotel I`m staying at for the annual New Year`s roadtrip...with a few exceptions, channels match up with the line-up from local cableco Videotron:

2/3 CKRT 7/13-SRC Riviere-du-Loup (because of the local geography, the locals run two channels in the area with the main tx on Mont Bleu and a second in the St-Patrice area, which is where the hotel is located...first channel is Mont Bleu and the second is St-Patrice)
4 CIMT 9/6-TVA Riviere-du-Loup
5 CFTF 29/11-V Riviere-du-Loup
6 Illico Info Channel (Illico is Videotron`s digital service, though the channel is currently running color bars as of this writing )
7 Canal Indigo Barker Channel (Canal Indigo is the French Canadian PPV service)
8 CIVB 31-TQc Grand-Fonds (//CIVB 22-Rimouski)
9 Shopping TVA
10 Canal Vox Riviere-du-Loup (community channel, carrying a combination of local and Vox Montreal programming)
11 CFCF-CTV Montreal
12 CBMT-CBC Montreal
13 Videotron Barker Channel (alternates between English and French every half-hour)
14 CFTU-Canal Savoir Montreal
15 TV5 Quebec Canada
16 Vrak TV
17 MeteoMedia
18 WPTZ-NBC Plattsburgh
19 RDI
20 Canal D
21 WCAX-CBS Burlington
22 WVNY-ABC Burlington
23 Canal Evasion
24 Series+
25 Historia
26 Ztele
27 CNN
28 TSN
29 LCN (TVA-owned news channel; the station has more recently aired a daytime news/evening talk format which according to reports will be the same for future sister newsnet Sun TV News)
30 MusiquePlus
31 ARTV
32 MusiMax
33 RDS
34 WFFF-Fox Burlington (while the other Burl/Platt channels are shown in their right proportions, it isn`t the case with WFFF, a fact you soon find out when watching their 10pm news ;D)
35 Canal Vie
36 Teletoon (French)
37 Discovery Channel
38 Rogers SportsNet East
39 TLC
40 CBC News Network
41 CMT
42 YTV
43 WCFE-PBS Plattsburgh (overnight programming from Classic Arts Showcase with the WCFE logo in the upper right of the screen)
44 National Assembly (Quebec legislature)

There is also a InnVue in-room movie service on ch 60.

 

[azumanga]

2/3 CKRT 7/13-SRC Riviere-du-Loup (because of the local geography, the locals run two channels in the area with the main tx on Mont Bleu and a second in the St-Patrice area, which is where the hotel is located...first channel is Mont Bleu and the second is St-Patrice)
4 CIMT 9/6-TVA Riviere-du-Loup
5 CFTF 29/11-V Riviere-du-Loup

As the other channels also have two transmitters but only one channel, I wonder if channel 2 or 3 was intended to be CBFT or another Radio-Canada station, but replaced locally with CKRT?

34 WFFF-Fox Burlington (while the other Burl/Platt channels are shown in their right proportions, it isn`t the case with WFFF, a fact you soon find out when watching their 10pm news ;D)

Saw WFFF on three different systems in Quebec while vacationing in Quebec last year -- all programming, including news, is widescreen, but the sides are chopped off, with no "safety area" included for standard-screen TVs.

 

[Bluenoser]

2/3 CKRT 7/13-SRC Riviere-du-Loup (because of the local geography, the locals run two channels in the area with the main tx on Mont Bleu and a second in the St-Patrice area, which is where the hotel is located...first channel is Mont Bleu and the second is St-Patrice)
4 CIMT 9/6-TVA Riviere-du-Loup
5 CFTF 29/11-V Riviere-du-Loup

As the other channels also have two transmitters but only one channel, I wonder if channel 2 or 3 was intended to be CBFT or another Radio-Canada station, but replaced locally with CKRT?

34 WFFF-Fox Burlington (while the other Burl/Platt channels are shown in their right proportions, it isn`t the case with WFFF, a fact you soon find out when watching their 10pm news ;D)

Saw WFFF on three different systems in Quebec while vacationing in Quebec last year -- all programming, including news, is widescreen, but the sides are chopped off, with no "safety area" included for standard-screen TVs.

According to Videotron's website, channel 2 is supposed to be CJBRT Rimouski (which, according to CKRT's own website, was why CKRT was signed-on to keep the then CJBR-TV out of the RdL market), so I assume this was done by the hotel, but I can't say for certain (and we all know what happens when one assumes )
Also a note on the InnVue channel...when you turn the TV on, it defaults to the InnVue channel with you needing to hit the ch up/down button to go to the cable channels. The line-up card also listed APTN and CPAC, but no sign of them on the TV...