City of license Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===The arbitrary nominal location=== In some cases, stations were constructed or acquired with the express purpose of driving a regional or province-wide chain of full-power repeaters.{{efn|Occasionally, individual stations in a full-power rebroadcaster chain will be licensed to outlying communities to ensure spacing which locates them to avoid unnecessary overlap with other stations in the same group.}} Which of these "satellite stations" would be designated as the main signal could be an arbitrary choice, as the programming carried on all stations in the system would be identical. {|class="wikitable" |- !Broadcaster !City !Community of license !Comments |- ||[[CHLF-TV]] 39 [[TFO]] ||[[Toronto]] ||[[Hawkesbury, Ontario|Hawkesbury]] ||TFO (Télé-Française d'Ontario) was a repeater chain broadcasting the same signal in 17 cities and towns with large [[francophone]] communities as a sister service to the English-language [[TVOntario]]; it relied primarily on [[cable television]] for distribution in much of [[Ontario]]. Studios are in Toronto, the provincial capital, as TFO belongs to Ontario's government, although the station was never physically available over-the-air in that community. As such, the choice of which of the multiple repeaters to designate as the primary station was arbitrary; Hawkesbury was chosen because that signal crossed the Ontario-Quebec border into [[Montreal]], Canada's largest francophone television market. After the 2012 digital switchover, the network became exclusive to cable and satellite as it was decided to shut down its transmitters rather than converting them to digital. |- ||[[CIII-TV]] 6 [[Global Television Network|Global]] ||[[Toronto]] ||[[Paris, Ontario|Paris]] ||From its launch in 1974 until 2009, this station's primary city of license was [[Paris, Ontario|Paris]], a small town near [[Brantford]], although the main studios were located in Toronto. A chain of repeaters covering most of [[Ontario]], the choice for the nominal primary station was an arbitrary one. A [[Greater Toronto Area]] community could have reasonably been chosen as nominal city of license, but to do so would be to name a suburban [[UHF]] outlet (22 [[Uxbridge, Ontario|Uxbridge]]) as the main station. Eventually UHF's perceived disadvantage was diminished by cable and the start of the digital era. Meanwhile, CIII-TV obtained a Toronto allocation (UHF 41) and took the outlying station dark (the UHF 22 allocation later went to [[CHEX-DT-2|CHEX-2 Durham]], but at much less power{{efn|[[CHEX-TV-2]] had 5500 watts of analogue UHF, the digital signal is 185 watts - a tiny amount for what is nominally the only originating OTA TV station licensed to a beaten-path industrial city of more than 160,000 people. This tiny signal does, however, get CHEX a slot on digital cable in [[Toronto]], the largest city in the nation.}}). The station's Toronto rebroadcaster on channel 41 (CIII-TV-41) became the originating broadcaster legally as defined by the CRTC for the CIII/Global Ontario network in mid-2009.<ref name=relicense>{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-409.htm|title=ARCHIVED - Licence renewals|first=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)|last=Government of Canada|date=June 6, 2009|website=crtc.gc.ca}}</ref> |- ||[[CKMI-TV]] 20 [[Global Television Network|Global]] ||[[Montreal]] ||[[Quebec City]] ||Similarly, from the station's launch until 2009, Quebec was the city of license and Montreal 46 / [[Sherbrooke]] 11 merely repeaters constructed after acquisition of the existing Quebec station. As the studios, master control facilities and largest audience are in Montreal, and the number of anglophones in mostly francophone Quebec City is small, this was a Montreal station in all but name. Like its sister station CIII, the station's license was moved to Montreal in 2009.<ref name=relicense /> |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page