CKRT-DT

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CKRT-DT
Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
Canada
Channels Digital: 7 (VHF)
Virtual: 7.1
Affiliations Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Owner Télé Inter-Rives
(CKRT-TV Ltée)
First air date January 14, 1962 (1962-01-14)
Sister station(s) CFTF-DT, CIMT-DT
Former channel number(s) Analogue:
7 (VHF, 1962–2011)
Transmitter coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Licensing authority CRTC

CKRT-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, was an Ici Radio-Canada Télé-affiliated station licensed to Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada. Owned by the Simard family and their company, Télé Inter-Rives, it was sister to Noovo affiliate CFTF-DT and TVA affiliate CIMT-DT. This arrangement made the station part of a so-called "triple-stick"—three stations owned by a single company. The three stations shared studios on Rue de la Chute and Rue Frontenac in Rivière-du-Loup; CKRT-DT's transmitter was located near Chemin du Mont Bleu in Picard. On cable, the station was available on Vidéotron channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 602.

Overview

The station first aired on January 14, 1962 and had been owned by the Simard family for its entire existence. Station founder Luc Simard had gotten word that CJBR-TV in Rimouski wanted to set up a rebroadcaster in Rivière-du-Loup, but felt the city was big enough for a station in its own right. It operated mostly as a repeater of CFCM-TV in Quebec City for its first two weeks on the air. Its original studio, near the transmitter in Picard, opened on February 9. The station went dark due to a fire in 1963, but was only off the air for nine days.

Not long after bringing the station on-air, the Simards soon discovered that the area's rugged topography made it all but unviewable in the lower, western parts of the city. To solve this problem, CKRT applied for and received permission to sign on a "nested" rebroadcaster in Rivière-du-Loup, CKRT-TV-3, on channel 13. The repeater signed on in 1964 and mainly served the western portion of the city. All other stations in the region eventually followed CKRT's lead. Earlier that year, it moved to its current studio in Rivière-du-Loup.

CKRT did not have access to alternative non-network program sources (as privately owned English language CBC affiliates did when they existed). For this reason, it operated mostly as a semi-satellite of CBFT in Montreal. It also carried Radio-Canada's regional news program for eastern Quebec, Le Téléjournal/Est-du-Québec, from CJBR in Rimouski.

CKRT-TV converted its entire transmitter network to digital by the August 31, 2011 digital transition deadline, including its transmitters that were not required to convert by this deadline. Only its main transmitter and its "nested" rebroadcaster in Rivière-du-Loup were obligated to convert, as Rivière-du-Loup is a mandatory market for digital television conversion.

Following the closure of affiliate CKRN-DT in Rouyn-Noranda on March 25, 2018,[2] CKRT-DT became the only privately-owned Radio-Canada affiliate remaining in the network, as well as the only privately-owned station that still carried programming from either Radio-Canada or the CBC.

In April 2021, Télé Inter-Rives informed the CRTC that the CBC had decided not to renew CKRT's Ici Radio-Canada Télé affiliation after August 31, 2021, with no possibility of a reversal. As Inter-Rives already operates separate TVA and Noovo affiliates in the market, the station has no other source of alternate programming available, and therefore the company says CKRT will be forced to close as of the same date. Inter-Rives has requested that it be permitted to re-allocate CKRT's funding under the Independent Local News Fund to sister station CFTF.[1]

Transmitters

Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates
CKRT-DT-1 Baie-Saint-Paul 36 (UHF)
(had planned to move to 35 (UHF))		 -28.1 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
CKRT-DT-2 Dégelis 25 (UHF) 133.1 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
CKRT-DT-3 Rivière-du-Loup (city) 13 (VHF) NA Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
CKRT-DT-4 Cabano 21 (UHF) 91.2 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
CKRT-DT-5 Saint-Urbain 35 (UHF) 23.9 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
CKRT-DT-6 Trois-Pistoles 19 (UHF) NA Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

CKRT-DT was also previously repeated on CBC-owned rebroadcasters in Clermont, Notre-Dame-des-Monts and Saint-Pamphile. Due to budget cuts, the CBC closed all of its corporate-owned transmitters, including those rebroadcasting private affiliates, on July 31, 2012.[3]

References

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  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ CBC/Radio-Canada Speech Transcript: "Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada, regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP)", April 4, 2012.Archived April 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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