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{{Short description|Television station in Ottawa}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = CJOH-DT
| city                   = Ottawa, Ontario
| logo                   = CTV_logo_2018.svg
| logo_size              = 200px
| branding               = {{ubl|CTV Ottawa or CTV (general)|''[[CTV News]] Ottawa'' (newscasts)}}
| digital                = 16 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 13
| translators            =
| subchannels            = 
| affiliations           = [[CTV Television Network|CTV]]
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1961|03|12|p=y}}
| location               = {{ubl|[[Ottawa]], Ontario|[[Gatineau]], Quebec}}
| country                = Canada
| callsign_meaning       = CJ Ottawa & [[Hull, Quebec]]
| former_callsigns       = CJOH-TV (1961–2011)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 13 ([[VHF]], 1961–2011)|'''Digital:''' 13 (VHF, 2011–2020)}}
| owner                  = [[Bell Media Inc.]]
| licensee               = 
| sister_stations        = [[CHRO-TV]], [[CFGO]], [[CFRA]], [[CJMJ-FM]], [[CKKL-FM]]
| former_affiliations    = [[Independent station|Independent]] (March–September 1961)
| erp                    = 54 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|423.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| coordinates            = {{Coord|45|30|11|N|75|51|1|W|type:landmark}}
| licensing_authority    = [[CRTC]]
| website                = {{Official website|https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/|ctvottawa.ca}} 
}}

'''CJOH-DT''' (channel 13, cable channel 7) is a [[television station]] in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Canada, [[owned and operated]] by the [[CTV Television Network]], a division of [[Bell Media]]. It shares studios with [[Pembroke, Ontario|Pembroke]]-licensed [[CTV2]] outlet [[CHRO-TV]] (channel 5) and Bell's Ottawa radio properties at the Market Media Mall building on George Street in [[downtown Ottawa]]'s [[ByWard Market]]. CJOH-DT's transmitter is located on the [[Ryan Tower]] at [[Camp Fortune]] in [[Chelsea, Quebec]], north of [[Gatineau]].

== History ==
[[File:CJOH-TV 1988 latenitemovie.jpg|thumb|left|125px|CJOH-TV's former Late Nite Movie logo, from 1988]]
Founded by Ernie Bushnell, CJOH signed on for the first time on March 12, 1961. Initially, studio facilities were located at 29 Bayswater Avenue ({{coord|45.4067|N|75.7204|W|display=inline}}) until that September when operations were shifted over several weeks to a $2 million ({{CAD}}) complex at 1500 Merivale.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bSAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=7214,1057975 | title=CJOH Opens Amid 'Hollywood Air' | newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]] | date=October 21, 1961 | first=Fred | last=Inglis | access-date=April 11, 2010 | page=3}}</ref>

It acquired former [[Cornwall, Ontario|Cornwall]]-based [[CBC Television|CBC]] affiliate [[CJSS-TV]] as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first television station in Canada to cease operations. The channel 6 transmitter in [[Deseronto]] became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. [[Standard Broadcasting]] owned the station from 1975 to 1987; that year, after a CRTC decision authorized [[Baton Broadcasting]] to launch a new independent station in Ottawa,<ref>"CRTC ruling sparks network war". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 3, 1987.</ref> Standard responded to the potential new competition by selling CJOH to Baton, who then surrendered the new independent licence.<ref>"Baton buys CJOH TV in Ottawa from Standard for $85 million". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', July 15, 1987.</ref> Baton was renamed CTV Inc. in 1998 after gaining control of the CTV network the preceding year. CTV in turn would be purchased by [[Bell Canada]] and folded into Bell Globemedia, now [[Bell Media]], in 2001.

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 | caption1  = CJOH's former logo as part of the [[Baton Broadcast System]], c. 1994–1998
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 | caption3  = CJOH's former logo (1998–2005). As of October 2005 logos with the stations' callsigns are no longer used on CTV stations; instead they all use the main CTV logo.
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On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor [[Brian Smith (ice hockey b. 1940)|Brian Smith]] was shot in the station's parking lot by [[Jeffrey Arenburg]], a released mental patient with a history of threatening media personalities, who claimed the station was broadcasting messages inside his head. Smith died in hospital the following day.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090514093607/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/11/22/arenburg.html Widow shocked by unconditional release of husband's killer], [[CBC News]], November 22, 2006</ref> The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's [[gun control]] legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law (Ontario Bill 68) – an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070715054021/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2000/12/05/ott_brianslaw001204.html New rules for Ontario mental health care], CBC News, December 5, 2000</ref> Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in [[Penetanguishene]] in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2008.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ottawa-sportscaster-s-killer-jailed-2-years-in-u-s-for-assault-1.767970 Ottawa sportscaster's killer jailed 2 years in U.S. for assault], [[CBC News]], September 25, 2008</ref>

On August 28, 1996, BBS Ontario Incorporated received CRTC approval to add a new analog transmitter on UHF channel 47 at Pembroke, Ontario, to rebroadcast programming of CJOH-TV. CHRO-TV was also approved to disaffiliate from the CTV Television Network that same day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1996/db96-542.htm|title=Decision CRTC 96-542: Disaffiliation of CHRO-TV Pembroke from the CTV Television Network; Addition of a transmitter of CHRO-TV at Ottawa and addition of a transmitter of CJOH-TV Ottawa at Pembroke|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|date=August 28, 1996}}</ref>

The newsroom was destroyed by a four-alarm fire during the early morning hours of February 7, 2010, destroying equipment and the news archives. The building itself remained intact until it was demolished by the end of December 2011. An adjacent office building housing former sister station [[CKQB-FM]] was not affected by the fire.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20121021054104/http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ctv-ottawa-newsroom-destroyed-by-fire-1.481652 CTV Ottawa newsroom destroyed by fire]", CTV Ottawa, February 7, 2010</ref><ref>"[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fire-destroys-ctv-ottawa-newsroom-1.937489 Fire destroys CTV newsroom]", [[CBC.ca]], February 7, 2010</ref>

CJOH's news operations were permanently relocated to CTV's ByWard Market building. This would be the first time the ByWard Market studios would have an evening newscast since the cancellation of sister station CHRO-TV's ''[[A News (TV series)|A News]]'' in March 2009.

==Programming==
{{main|List of programs broadcast by CTV and CTV2}}

===Regular local programming===
<!-- Airs at least once a week. --->
With the exception of networked shows ''[[Your Morning]]'' (along with its predecessor ''[[Canada AM]]'') and ''Question Period'', none of these programs are available in [[High-definition television|high definition]]. 
* ''Regional Contact'', with Joel Haslam since 1988 and Kathie Donovan from 1998 to 2012, was the second last local program on CJOH besides standard newscasts. The show was a weekly program that previously aired at 6:30&nbsp;p.m. on Saturdays, but has been moved to Sunday at the same time beginning in September 2011. Episodes produced during or after 2007 are available as [[streaming media]] on CJOH's website. The last episode featuring Donovan aired on May 13, 2012. CJOH has since discontinued ''Regional Contact'' as a weekly show, but it remains on the station as a weekly segment during the 6 p.m. newscasts.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713041838/http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/kathie-donovan-says-farewell-to-regional-contact-1.809356 Katie Donovan says farewell to Regional Contact].</ref>
* ''[[Question Period (TV series)|Question Period]]'' is a national program about [[Canadian politics]] produced in Ottawa since 1967. It is the last non-newscast local program on CJOH since the discontinuation of ''Regional Contact''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/ctvqp |title=Twitter @ctvqp |author=CTV's Question Period |publisher=Twitter |access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref>

===Former local programming===
<!-- Reruns, or programs that do not air any more. --->
* ''Bang Bang You're Alive''
* ''Compass''
* ''Vue'' (where [[Peter Jennings]] made his debut)
* ''Platform''
* ''Dear Charlotte''
* ''Wok with Yan'' (produced for [[CBC Television]])
* ''Wayne Rostad Show''
* ''Country Way''
* ''Celebrity Cooks'' with [[Bruno Gerussi]] (produced for  CBC Television, later moved to [[Global Television Network|Global]])
* ''Joys of Collecting''
* ''[[Uncle Chichimus]]'' (originally for CBC Television in 1950s; moved to CJOH in 1960s)
* ''Saturday Date'' (1961–1969) was a music and dance show targeted at teenagers, with local performances as well as the top songs on Canadian music charts. Peter Jennings was the host of this show until some time in 1962, when he was replaced by John Pozer. Dick Maloney would replace Pozer in 1964. Although the show ended in 1969, Pozer and Maloney would later return on March 13, 1991, for a ''Saturday Date'' reunion along with original participants forming the audience.<!-- http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/19471/saturday_date/details/ --->
* ''Miss Helen'' (1960s) was a bilingual show designed for pre-sechoolers. It used the ''Oogly Woogly'' worm as one of the actors. This format would later be used by its successor Marie-Soleil.
*''[[Strange Paradise]]'' (1969–1970; produced for CBC Television)
* ''The Galloping Gourmet with [[Graham Kerr]]'' (1969–1971; produced for CBC Television)
* ''The Wonderful World of [[Kreskin]]'' (1970s)
* ''[[Watch Mr. Wizard|Mr. Wizard]]'' (1971–1972; produced for CBC Television)
* ''[[Family Brown]] Country'' (1972–1985)
* ''Morning Magazine'' (1972–1987; replaced by the national ''[[Canada AM]]'') with  [[Bill Luxton (actor)|Bill Luxton]] and various co-hosts including [[Margaret Trudeau]]
* ''[[Marie-Soleil]]'' (1980s), although the show's host [[Suzanne Pinel]] reappears yearly for the [[CHEO]] [[telethon]].
* ''[[Homegrown Cafe]]'' (1980s–1998) was a talent show hosted by J. J. Clarke, who was CJOH's weatherman for the 6 p.m. weekday news until his retirement in 2020.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
* ''Tech Now'' (2001–2011) was a local [[technology journalism]] news program hosted by Paul Brent. It aired from 6:30&nbsp;p.m. to about 6:55&nbsp;p.m. on Sundays, and the last episode aired on July 3, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/m2wPaul/status/86203531245256704 | title=Twitter / @m2wPaul | last1=Brent | first1=Paul | publisher=Twitter | access-date=January 15, 2012}}</ref> The program's production has been cancelled after Brent retired, with no new episodes or host, although re-runs of older episodes briefly played after the show was discontinued. Eventually, ''Tech Now'' ceased to play on CJOH, and was replaced by ''Regional Contact'' which previously played on Saturdays during the same time slot.
*''Uncle Willy & Floyd'' (1966–1988) children's comedy with [[Bill Luxton (actor)|Bill Luxton]] and [[Les Lye]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.ottawatheatre.ca/cmt/articles/cmt20031125.html | title=A lifetime of Willy and Floyd | newspaper=Ottawa Citizen | access-date=January 9, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225122947/http://www.ottawatheatre.ca/cmt/articles/cmt20031125.html | archive-date=February 25, 2012 | url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' (1979–1990) with [[Les Lye]] and [[Christine McGlade]]; children's sketch comedy program which was a locally-oriented show that included contests and live segments in its first two seasons before being picked up by [[Nickelodeon]]; a short-lived spinoff, ''Whatever Turns You On'', aired nationally in prime time on CTV in the fall of 1979.
*''Something Else'' (1982) teen-oriented contest and variety show hosted by [[Christine McGlade]] with the cast of ''You Can't Do That on Television''

==News operation==
CJOH-DT presently broadcasts {{frac|20|1|2}} hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with {{frac|3|1|2}} hours each weekday and {{frac|1|1|2}} hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in lieu of a local morning newscast (which instead airs on [[sister station]] CHRO), CJOH displays local news headlines on a [[news ticker]] during its broadcast of CTV's semi-national morning program ''Your Morning'' (previously ''Canada AM'').

Local newscasts (under the name ''[[CTV News]]'') are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30&nbsp;p.m.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2mmJVX_LA CTV Ottawa News Open]</ref> The newscasts were previously called ''Midday Newsline''/''Newsline''/''Nightline'' (depending on the time of day) from the 1970s until 1998, and ''CJOH News'' from 1998 to 2005. (In 1982, the 6 p.m. newscast ''Newsline'' became, for a brief time, Canada's first 90-minute local supper hour newscast.) From December 10, 2011, to autumn 2012, the noon and 6 p.m. broadcasts broadcast for one hour, though the Sunday evening 6 p.m. broadcast remained a half-hour program.<ref>[http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/ctv-ottawa-expands-local-weekend-news/1000547651/ CTV Ottawa Expands Local Weekend News] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111133235/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/ctv-ottawa-expands-local-weekend-news/1000547651 |date=January 11, 2012 }}, ''Broadcaster Magazine'', 29, 2011.</ref> Since April 2012, the audio feed of CJOH's 6 p.m. newscast is [[simulcast]] on sister radio station [[CFRA]]. The Sunday 6 p.m. newscast expanded to one hour in the fall of 2012.
On July 7, 2014, the station unveiled a new studio to accompany the transition to high definition news production. On August 28, 2017, CJOH launched a new hour of local news content titled CTV News at 5, part of expanded local newscasts announced in June of that year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ctv-ottawa-expanding-local-coverage-with-ctv-news-at-5/|title=CTV Ottawa expanding local coverage with CTV NEWS AT 5|date=June 7, 2017|work=CTV News Ottawa|access-date=August 29, 2017}}</ref>

===Notable former on-air staff===
* [[Arisa Cox]] – reporter
* [[Harry Elton]] – anchor (1960s)
* [[Peter Jennings]] – anchor
* [[Max Keeping]] – 6 p.m. anchor
* [[Bill Luxton (actor)|Bill Luxton]] – host of ''Morning Magazine'' and various public affairs programs from 1961 to 1988
* [[Carol Anne Meehan]] – weeknight anchor
* [[Graham Richardson (journalist)|Graham Richardson]] – weeknight anchor
* [[Martin Seemungal]] – reporter
* [[Brian Smith (ice hockey b. 1940)|Brian Smith]] – sports anchor
* [[Carolyn Waldo]] – sports anchor; weekends

==Technical information==
===Subchannel===
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! scope = "col" | Short name
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| [[1080i]] || [[16:9]] || CJOH || [[CTV Television Network|CTV]]
|-
|}

====Analog-to-digital conversion====
On August 31, 2011, when Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory [[media market|markets]] [[Digital television in Canada|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]],<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734876915/1298734876967 Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817184039/http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734876915/1298734876967|date=August 17, 2013}}</ref> the station [[flash cut]] its digital signal into operation on [[VHF]] channel 13. The station's news operations completed upgrades to high definition capabilities, and the first HD news broadcast took place on July 7, 2014, starting with the noon hour newscast.

===Spectrum reallocation===
As part of the CRTC/FCC spectrum reallocation, CJOH-DT was assigned channel 7 as its new frequency, but instead requested channel 16 (which should have gone to [[Deseronto]]) for its new frequency. This was given CRTC approval in March 2020.<ref>File #: 2020-46-2 https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/demradbroadappl/Default-Defaut.aspx</ref> Bell Media was scheduled to carry out the move to channel 16 around July 3, 2020,<ref>http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf11282.html</ref> marking the end of all VHF TV broadcasting in Ottawa.

===Former rebroadcasters===
A long list of CTV [[broadcast translator|rebroadcasters]] nationwide were to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid [[fee-for-carriage]] requirements for [[cable television]] operators.<ref>[http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/pdf/CTVCORP/AppendixB_ListofTransmitters.pdf CTV list of transmitters to be shut down] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224110406/http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/pdf/CTVCORP/AppendixB_ListofTransmitters.pdf|date=December 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-407.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-407]</ref>

On June 27, 2016, it was announced that Bell Media filed a proposal with the CRTC to shut down 40 of its television transmitters (all rebroadcasters of other stations), due to maintenance costs, high cable and satellite viewership, and no generation of revenue. Among the victims was the former [[CJSS-TV]] 8 [[Cornwall, Ontario|Cornwall]], the first station to rebroadcast CJOH-TV (since 1963).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-149.htm|title=Bell Media Inc. – Licence renewals for English-language television stations and services|date=May 15, 2017}}</ref>

On July 30, 2019, Bell Media was granted permission to close down CJOH-TV-6 ([[Deseronto]]) and CJOH-TV-47 ([[Pembroke, Ontario|Pembroke]]) as part of Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-268. CJOH-TV-47 was shut down as of May 2, 2020, and CJOH-TV-6 was shut down on October 9 of the same year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2019/2019-268.htm|title=CRTC Decision 2019-268|date=July 30, 2019}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{Official website|https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca}}
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/ontario/ontario-eastern/CJOH-DT CJOH-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CJOH}}

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