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 Former CJOH/CJSS transmitter in Lancaster, Ontario, near the Quebec border. | |
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| Affiliations | CBC |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Stanley Shenkman |
| History | |
| First air date | October 18, 1959; 65 years ago (1959-10-18) |
| Last air date | 1963; 62 years ago (1963) |
| Call sign meaning | Stanley Shenkman |
CJSS-TV (channel 8) was a television station in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. In operation from 1959 to 1963 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, the station was later converted to a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CJOH-TV.
The station originally signed on as a CBC Television affiliate on October 18, 1959, owned by Toronto architect Stanley Shenkman. Shenkman also acquired the radio stations CKSF and CKSF-FM, which both adopted the CJSS call sign as well.
In 1963, CJSS was acquired by Ernie Bushnell and converted into a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CTV affiliate CJOH, making CJSS the first TV station in Canada ever to cease operations as its own station and become a repeater for another. After many years of use to rimshot the Montreal market, Bell Media took the station permanently dark in 2017. The radio stations were sold to a local family, and subsequently broadcast as part of Corus Entertainment. Of these stations, 1220 AM (as CJUL) left the air August 18, 2010, leaving just CJSS-FM retaining the original call sign.
References
- https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/stanley-shenkman-obituary?id=39803246
- "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-149 | CRTC".
External links
- The Brisson Brothers star on their own TV series The Town & Country Show on CJSS-TV in Cornwall, (Ottawa Country Music Hall of Fame, 1994).
- 237 Water Street East, former home of CJSS radio; in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this building served as the studios for short-lived CJSS-TV 8.
- CJSS-TV at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
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Channel still on the air as a full-time repeater of another station. |
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