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| Affiliations | Omni Television |
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| History | |
First air date | September 15, 2008 (16 years ago) (2008-09-15) |
Former call signs | CJCO-TV (2008–2011) |
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Call sign meaning | CJ Calgary's Omni |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 23.1 kW |
| HAAT | 369.5 m (1,212 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 51°4′21″N114°15′38″W / 51.07250°N 114.26056°W /51.07250; -114.26056 |
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| Website | Omni Alberta |
CJCO-DT (channel 38) is amulticulturaltelevision station inCalgary, Alberta, Canada, part of theOmni Television network. It isowned and operated byRogers Sports & Media alongsideCitytv stationCKAL-DT (channel 5). The two stations share studios at 7 Avenue and 5 Street Southwest inDowntown Calgary; CJCO-DT's transmitter is located near Old Banff Coach Road/Highway 563.
The station was licensed by theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on June 8, 2007,[3] and it launched on September 15, 2008. The station was originally assigned the call sign CHXC byIndustry Canada, but this was changed to CJCO in February 2008.[4]
The station's primary focus ismulticultural programming and documentaries. Like the other Omni stations across the country, the station once aired a large amount of syndicated American shows such asThe Simpsons andThe King of Queens, but those have since been dropped as of the start of the 2015–16 season.
Omni Alberta formerly produced local newscasts aimed at theCantonese,Mandarin, and South Asian communities across the province. While there were newsgathering teams in both Edmonton and Calgary, the production of the newscasts themselves were done out ofCKEM's studios inDowntown Edmonton. The newscasts were discontinued and replaced by Omni's national newscasts in September 2011; the national newscasts still featured contributions from Calgary-based reporters.
On May 30, 2013, Rogers announced that it would immediately close down the production facilities for both Omni Alberta stations as a result of budget cuts—ending the production of local programming and news content from the stations.[5]
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 38.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | OMNI | Omni Television |
On August 11, 2011, three weeks before Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatorymarketstransitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts, CJCO shut down its analog transmitter andflash cut its digital signal into operation onUHF channel 38.[7]
As of July 28, 2020, due to the DTV spectrum repack happening across North America, CJCO-DT has moved from UHF 38 to UHF 34. Thevirtual channel remains as 38.1.
