CKRN-DT

CKRN-DT

Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec Canada
Channels	Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 4 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Owner	RNC Media
First air date	December 25, 1957 (1957-12-25)
Call letters' meaning	CK Radio Nord (original name of current owners) -or- CK Rouyn-Noranda
Sister station(s)	CFEM-DT, CFVS-DT
Former callsigns	CKRN-TV (1957–2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analogue: 4 (VHF, 1957-2011)
Former affiliations	CBC Television (secondary; 1957–1962)
Transmitter coordinates
Licensing authority	CRTC

CKRN-DT (branded on-air as Radio-Canada Télévision CKRN) was a privately owned Ici Radio-Canada Télé-affiliated television station licensed to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada, which essentially functioned as a semi-satellite of Montreal Radio-Canada flagship station CBFT-DT due to not having alternative non-network sources of programming available. It broadcast a digital signal on VHF channel 9 (or virtual channel 4.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter near Chemin Powell (north of Route 101) in Rouyn-Noranda.

Formerly owned by RNC Media, it was a sister station to TVA outlet CFEM-DT and Val-d'Or V outlet CFVS-DT, and all three shared studios located on Avenue Murdoch and Avenue de la Saint Anne in Rouyn-Noranda. On cable, CKRN was available on Câblevision du Nord de Québec channel 7 and digital channel 411.

History

The station commenced broadcasting on December 25, 1957 as then-Radio-Nord's first television station, sharing its callsign with its radio sister station, CKRN AM 1400 (now CHOA-FM 96.5). It was originally a dual affiliate of Radio-Canada and the English language CBC. The CBC subsequently launched a rebroadcaster in Malartic of its English Montreal affiliate CBMT in the area in 1961, CBVD-TV channel 5, and CKRN dropped its English programming in 1962.

On March 1, 2018, it was announced that CKRN would cease broadcasting at midnight on March 25. RNC announced it wanted to concentrate its efforts on CFEM and CFVS. The shutdown of CKRN left Ici Radio-Canada Télé without an over-the-air outlet in the Abitibi region.

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter coordinates
CKRN-TV-2	Ville-Marie	6 (VHF)	0.005 kW	NA
CKRN-TV-3	Béarn/Fabre	3 (VHF) (had construction permit to move to 7 (VHF))	3.64 kW	165.5 m (543 ft)
CJDG-DT	Val-d'Or	7 (VHF)	21.5 kW	204.5 m (671 ft)
CJDG-TV-2	Lebel-sur-Quévillon	11 (VHF)	0.005 kW	NA
CJDG-TV-3	Joutel	11 (VHF)	0.781 kW	152.7 m (501 ft)
CJDG-TV-4	Matagami	9 (VHF)	0.364 kW	78.9 m (259 ft)

External links

• CKRN-DT history – Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKRN-TV
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CKRN