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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = CJMT-DT
| city                   =
| logo                   = Omni TV 2018.svg
| logo_size              = 220px
| branding               = Omni Television
| digital                = 26 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 40
| subchannels            = 
| translators            = ''see {{section link||Transmitters}}''
| affiliations           = '''40.1:''' [[Omni Television]]
| owner                  = [[Rogers Sports & Media]]
| licensee               = Rogers Media Inc.<ref name="ownchart">[https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht027b.pdf Ownership Chart 27B – ROGERS – Radio, TV & Satellite-to-Cable]</ref>
| location               = [[Toronto]], Ontario
| country                = Canada
| airdate                = {{start date and age|2002|09|16|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = "Multicultural Television" (disambiguation of sister station CFMT-DT)
| sister_stations        = {{ubl|'''TV:''' [[CFMT-DT]], [[CITY-DT]], [[Sportsnet Ontario]]|'''Radio:''' [[CFTR (AM)|CFTR]], [[CHFI-FM|CHFI]], [[CJCL]], [[CKIS]]}}
| former_callsigns       = CJMT-TV (2002–2011)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 44 (UHF, 2002–2004), 69 (UHF, 2004–2011)|'''Digital:''' 44 (UHF, 2008–2011), 51 (UHF, 2011–2012), 40 (UHF, 2012–2020)|'''Virtual:''' 69 (2008–2012)}}
| former_affiliations    = 
| erp                    = 14.6 [[Watt|kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|506|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 
| coordinates            = {{coord|43|38|33|N|79|23|14|W|type:landmark}}
| licensing_authority    = [[CRTC]]
| website                = {{URL|http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario|Omni Television Ontario}} 
}}

'''CJMT-DT''' (channel 40) is a [[television station]] in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada. It is one of two [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship stations]] of the Canadian multilingual network [[Omni Television]], a division of [[Rogers Sports & Media]], and is operated alongside sister Omni outlet [[CFMT-DT]] (channel 47) and [[Citytv]] flagship [[CITY-DT]] (channel 57). The three stations share studios at the [[Rogers Building (Toronto)|Rogers Building]] in [[downtown Toronto]]; CJMT-DT's transmitter is located atop the [[CN Tower]].

The station was launched on September 16, 2002, as a sister to CFMT; at the same time, Rogers launched Omni Television as a blanket brand for the stations by branding the new station as '''Omni.2''', followed by re-branding CFMT as '''Omni.1''' as well as the rest of Canada in subsequent years. The two stations are distinguished by their service of different cultural groups; CJMT caters primarily on Asian cultures (including programming in South Asian and Chinese languages) while CFMT focuses on European (particularly Western and Eastern) and Latin American cultures.<ref name=History>https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/ontario/toronto-and-vicinity/cjmt-dt/</ref>

==History==
[[Image:OMNI 2.svg|200px|thumb|right|Omni.2 logo used from 2002 to 2011.]]
[[Image:Omni-Television.svg|200px|thumb|Omni Television Logo used from 2011 to 2018.]]
[[File:City tv OMNI Doors Open Toronto 2012.jpg|200px|thumb|Omni Television's studios at the Rogers Media Complex on [[33 Dundas Street East]] facing [[Sankofa Square]] in Toronto, used from 2009 to 2025]]
The station signed on the air on September 16, 2002, broadcasting on UHF channel 44.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2002/db2002-293.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2002-293, Proposed channel 44 in Toronto - OMNI.2|publisher=CRTC|date=September 13, 2002}}</ref> In 2004, CJMT moved its channel allocation to UHF channel 69.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2003/db2003-577.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2003-577, CJMT-TV Toronto - Technical changes|publisher=CRTC|date=November 18, 2003}}</ref> The station was licensed by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) as part of the same process that approved [[independent station]] [[CKXT-TV]] (channel 51, now defunct) and was proposed to be known as "CFMT Too".<ref name=History/> The "J" in its callsign has no particular meaning, except that it was an available callsign that maintained the "MT" lettering (standing for "[[multiculturalism in Canada|Multicultural]] Television") from CFMT ([[CJMT (AM)|CJMT]] was formerly the callsign of a now-defunct AM radio station in [[Chicoutimi, Quebec]]).

On May 19, 2005, the CRTC approved an application by Rogers Broadcasting Limited to operate a transitional digital television programming undertaking at Ottawa, operating on channel 66C with an average effective radiated power of 7,110 watts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/db2005-202.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-202, CJMT-DT Toronto - New transmitter in Ottawa|publisher=CRTC|date=May 19, 2005}}</ref>
On October 8, 2007, Rogers announced that the operations of the two Omni stations would relocate from [[545 Lake Shore Boulevard West]] to [[33 Dundas Street East]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.downtownyonge.com/Development_fact_sheet | title=Development Fact Sheet | publisher=Downtown Yonge BIA | access-date=May 31, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617001445/http://www.downtownyonge.com/Development_fact_sheet | archive-date=June 17, 2008}}</ref> CJMT and CFMT integrated their operations into the building – which it shares with City flagship CITY-DT, which moved into the facility the previous month – on October 19, 2009.

Omni Television and Citytv moved their operations to the [[Rogers Building (Toronto)|Rogers Building]] at Bloor and Mount Pleasant in March 2025.<ref name=banfield>{{cite news|first=Devon|last=Banfield|url=https://nowtoronto.com/news/breakfast-television-end-of-era/|title='New desk, new hosts,' Breakfast Television is leaving its iconic downtown studio after almost 16 years|newspaper=[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]|date=March 14, 2025|accessdate=March 15, 2025}}</ref>

==Programming==
As a multicultural station, CJMT airs programming in the [[South Asia]]n languages (such as [[Urdu]] and [[Hindi]]), as well as in [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]], [[Cantonese]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Somali language|Somali]] and [[Pashto]]. As with its sister station CFMT, CJMT also aired [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] English-language programming until September 25, 2015. The original series ''[[Metropia (TV series)|Metropia]]'' was also broadcast on the station, with repeats on CFMT. In 2014, CJMT began to regularly simulcast [[CBS]] [[late-night talk show]]s ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' and ''[[The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]]'', both of which moved from the main Omni television channel. Both shows have since concluded, with [[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|their]] [[The Late Late Show with James Corden|successors]] airing on [[Global Television Network|Global]] and [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] respectively. The first season of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] series ''[[Empire (2015 TV series)|Empire]]'' also aired on CJMT (its second season moved to City).

===Sports programming===
During the [[2007 NFL season|2007 season]], CJMT began airing late-afternoon [[NFL]] games, usually the alternate to whatever aired on [[Sportsnet]] and [[CKVU-DT]] in [[Vancouver]]. These games were moved to [[CITY-DT]] as of the [[2008 NFL season|2008 season]]. Rights to these games were later assumed by CTV as of the [[2017 NFL season|2017 season]]. During the [[2014 NFL season|2014 season]], CJMT aired several ''[[Thursday Night Football]]'' games in simulcast with Sportsnet and [[CBS Sports|CBS]].

On [[2013 Toronto Blue Jays season|June 27, 2013]], CJMT broadcast Mandarin-language coverage of a [[Toronto Blue Jays]] [[Major League Baseball]] game started by Taiwanese player [[Chien-Ming Wang]]. This event marked the first ever Canadian MLB telecast in the language.<ref name=omni-bluejays>{{cite web|title=OMNI to air Blue Jays vs Red Sox in Mandarin, Thursday|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/06/25/omni-to-air-blue-jays-vs-red-sox-in-mandarin-thursday/|work=Citynews.ca|publisher=Rogers Media|access-date=June 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name=bc-omnijays>{{cite web|title=OMNI TV To Air First Mandarin Broadcast of MLB Game in Canada|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/omni-tv-to-air-first-mandarin-broadcast-of-mlb-game-in-canada/1002431677/|work=Broadcaster Magazine|access-date=June 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001845/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/omni-tv-to-air-first-mandarin-broadcast-of-mlb-game-in-canada/1002431677/|archive-date=December 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Newscasts===
CJMT-DT broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each weekday). The station carries two local newscasts aimed at Southern Ontario's Asian demographic, presented in the Mandarin and Cantonese languages.

CJMT launched its news operation the day the station began operations on September 16, 2002, with newscasts airing in Mandarin and South Asian languages as well as a Cantonese language newscast that moved to the station from sister station CFMT. The South Asian edition had previously aired once a week and was known as ''South Asian Newsweek''. The South Asian newscast was cancelled in June 2013 due to corporate cutbacks at Rogers Media, that included the shutdown of production operations at CJMT's sister stations, [[CJCO-DT]] in [[Calgary]] and [[CJEO-DT]] in [[Edmonton]].<ref>[https://calgaryherald.com/business/Rogers+axes+CityNews+Channel+parts+OMNI+programming/8455401/story.html Rogers axes CityNews Channel, parts of OMNI TV programming]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Calgary Herald]]'' (via [[The Canadian Press]]), May 30, 2013.</ref>

The length of the weekday Mandarin news program has been half an hour from its launch on September 3, 1979, to April 30, 2010, and was extended to one hour on May 3, 2010.

In September 2017, with the launch of Omni National, Omni 2 started production of news programs in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Punjabi.

====Notable former on-air staff====
* Stanley So (蘇凌峰) – former anchor of ''OMNI News: Cantonese Edition''

==Technical information==
===Subchannel===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannel of CJMT-DT<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=CJMT#station |title=RabbitEars TV Query for CJMT|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=July 17, 2024}}</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#Canada|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 40.1 
| [[1080i]] || [[16:9]] || OMNI 2 || [[Omni Television]]
|-
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
CJMT shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 69, on August 31, 2011, the official date on which full-power television stations in larger Canadian television [[media market|markets]] [[Digital television in Canada|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The conversion coincided with a change in transmitters, from the analog transmitter atop [[First Canadian Place]] to a digital transmitter on the [[CN Tower]] alongside its [[Rogers Media]] sister stations.<ref>{{cite web|title=CJMT-DT|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/television/cjmt-dt|website=History of Canadian Broadcasting|publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation|access-date=September 17, 2017|language=en|quote=The Toronto transmitter would operate on channel 51 with an effective radiated power of 18,100 watts (non-directional) with effective antenna height of 501.4 metres from the CN Tower (the analog transmitter was atop First Canadian Place)|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918021223/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/television/cjmt-dt|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using [[virtual channel]] 69.<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916083326/http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html|date=September 16, 2008}}</ref> In August 2012, the digital signal relocated to UHF channel 40, after that channel was vacated due to the shutdown of CKXT-DT.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-27.htm|title = ARCHIVED - CJMT-DT Toronto – Technical changes|date = January 20, 2012}}</ref> The virtual channel was remapped to physical digital channel 40 with the relocation of the digital signal to that frequency.

===Transmitters===
{{geoGroup}}
{| class="wikitable"
! Station
! [[City of licence]]
! [[channel (broadcasting)|Channel]]<br>([[digital terrestrial television|RF]] / [[virtual channel|VC]])
! [[effective radiated power|ERP]]
! [[HAAT]]
! Transmitter coordinates
! CRTC
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| '''CJMT-DT-1'''
| [[London, Ontario|London]]
| 20 ([[UHF]])<br/>20
| 14&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|197.6|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| {{coord|42|57|16|N|81|21|17|W|type:landmark|name=CJMT-TV-1}}
|[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-948.htm 2010-948]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| '''CJMT-DT-2'''
| [[Ottawa]]
| 20 (UHF)<br/>14
| 15&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|202.3|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
|{{coord|45|13|2|N|75|33|49|W|type:landmark|name=CJMT-DT-2}}
|[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2003/db2003-602.htm 2003-602]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario/}}
*[https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/ontario/toronto-and-vicinity/CJMT-DT CJMT-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CJMT-DT}}

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