Re: New VHF in Toronto?

[Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>]

>It appears a new TV station is going on the air in Toronto come
>September which by itself isn't a big deal
>
>However the owner says it will be on a channel between 2 and 13
>
>Scott F what on earth is this all about? LP V I assume

Nope...it's just Canada, where over-the-air transmission is little more 
than a convenient way to feed the cable headend.

"Toronto One" is - or will be - CKXT, channel 52, running a fairly healthy 
full-power UHF signal (at least a few hundred kw,
if memory serves) from the Bank of Montreal building downtown (the CN Tower 
is, and has long been, effectively full - it
wasn't designed to handle the amount of FM and TV now on the air there.)

Of course, nobody will watch Toronto One on channel 52, or know that the 
calls are CKXT. It'll get a cable berth "between
2 and 13," which means something will have to be displaced from this lineup 
(Rogers Toronto - but it's pretty much the same
anywhere in the "Golden Horseshoe" from Niagara up to Toronto and Oshawa):

2 CICA (19, TVOntario)
3 CIII (41, Global)
4 CFMT (47, multiethnic)
5 TV Guide (but ingress problems from CBLT 5 make it hard to put anything 
useful on this channel)
6 CBLT (5, CBC)
7 CITY (57, ind.)
8 CFTO (9, CTV)
9 CITS (36, religious - and see the note about channel 5)
10 Rogers TV (cable access/leased/local origination)
11 CHCH (11, "CH" ind.)
12 CBLFT (25, Radio-Canada)
13 TFO (TVOntario's French service)

Other broadcasters with spots on Rogers Toronto:

14 CJMT (44, multiethnic sister to CFMT)
15 WGRZ (2, NBC Buffalo)
16 WIVB (4, CBS Buffalo)
18 WKBW (7, ABC Buffalo)
20 CKVR (3, Ind. Barrie)
28 WUTV (29, Fox Buffalo)
61 WNED (17, PBS Buffalo)
67 KTLA (5, WB Los Angeles)
68 WPIX (11, WB NYC)
69 WSBK
70 CFTM (10, TVA Montreal)
88 CHEX (12, CBC Peterborough - actually fed from the channel 22 
transmitter at Oshawa, which breaks away for some local news)
89 CKCO (13, CTV Kitchener)
90 WTVS (56, PBS Detroit)
91 WNYO (49, WB Buffalo)

Keep going up the digital package and eventually, if you pay enough, you 
also get stations from Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver and even DTV signals 
from Detroit!

My guess is that Toronto One will get channel 12 or 13 on the system and 
push CBLFT or TFO up the dial...

s