CFCM-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CFCM-TV
city = Quebec City, Quebec
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = Télé-4 (TV-4)
analog = 4 (VHF), cable 7
digital =
other_chs =
affiliations = TVA
founded = July 17, 1954
location = Quebec City, Quebec
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Quebecor
former_affiliations = CBC Television (1954-57)
SRC (1954-64)
effective_radiated_power = 100 kW
homepage = [http://tva.canoe.com/stations/cfcm/ TVA Quebec City]

CFCM is a television station. It is the TVA affiliate in Quebec City, Canada. Its studios and transmitter are co-located in the former suburb of Sainte-Foy.

CFCM was Quebec's first private television station, going on the air for the first time on July 17, 1954. CFCM started out as a private bilingual CBC/SRC affiliate. The station's original owner was Télévision de Québec, a consortium of theatre chain Famous Players and Quebec City's two private AM radio stations, CHRC and CKCV.

At its launch, CFCM immediately linked up with both the CBC and SRC microwave networks. The station started broadcasting an all-French service on March 17, 1957, when Télévision de Québec launched CKMI-TV. When SRC opened CBVT-TV on September 7, 1964, CFCM joined the loose association formed by Montreal's CFTM-TV and Chicoutimi's CJPM-TV a year earlier. This was the forerunner of TVA, which was formally organized in 1971.

Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 because of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's new rules on foreign ownership. The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Eventually, Famous Players reduced its shares to 20% by 1971, allowing Télévision de Québec to keep CKMI and CFCM [ [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=125&historyID=127 Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes ] ] The company renamed itself Télé-Capitale in 1974.

CFCM, along with five other stations, CKMI-TV, CHLT-TV, CHEM-TV and CFER-TV, were all purchased by Pathonic Communications in 1979. CFCM became the flagship station of Pathonic's new TVA-affiliated system.

Pathonic merged with Télé-Metropole, owner of CFTM, in 1990. Since then, CFCM has been a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts.

References

External links

* [http://tva.canoe.com/stations/cfcm/ TVA Quebec City]
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