CJPM-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CJPM-TV
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 6 (VHF), cable 4 (23.5 kW)
digital = Unknown
other_chs = 10 CJPM-TV-1 Chambord-Roberval
affiliations = TVA
founded = April 14, 1963
location = Saguenay, Quebec
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Québecor
former_affiliations = None
effective_radiated_power = 100 kW
homepage = [http://tva.canoe.com/stations/cjpm TVA Saguenay]

CJPM-TV is the TVA owned and operated station in Saguenay, Quebec. Its studios are located in the former city of Chicoutimi.

The station was launched on April 14, 1963. Its owners soon realized that they didn't have the revenue to challenge SRC affiliate CKRS-TV (now CKTV-TV) on their own. To obtain better programming, CJPM began sharing programs with the biggest privately owned francophone station in Canada, CFTM-TV in Montreal. This was the beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't formally created until 1971 with CJPM as one of its three charter affiliates (the others being CFTM and Quebec City's CFCM-TV).

CJPM's original owners sold the station to Télé-Métropole, owner of CFTM, in 1982. It became a TVA O&O when Télé-Métropole bought majority control of the network in 1990. Since then (if not earlier), it has been basically a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts.

External links

* [http://tva.canoe.com/stations/cjpm TVA Saguenay]
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