Talk:CHCH-DT

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CHCH is still available throughout most of Ontario; however, it cannot broadcast to Thunder Bay, Peterborough, Oshawa or Kingston because of complaints made to local cablesystems by other local stations.

Eh? It is available on Rogers Cable (only cable provider) in Oshawa, and it is receivable by antenna as well. It is not entirely clear what is being said..

Meaning of CHCH

The official meaning of the call letters were that the original owner (name forgotten) liked the idea of Canada, Hamilton so much, he doubled it, coming up with CHCH.

any sources? getcrunk juice 14:27, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: CHCH in Oshawa

I think what was technically meant was that CHCH couldn't put a transmitter in Oshawa because of CHEX-TV-2, but the programming is already readily available there. Just as CHEX has CBC programming that is readily available there from CBLT. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mjlarochelle (talk • contribs) 05:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

First Independent Station?

When was the exact day that CHCH broadcasted as an independent station? Though CHCH is definitely the frist anglophone independent station, CFTM-TV may have been the first independent station. It started broadcasting on 19 Febuary of 1961, so it could have started a few months before CHCH.--Fantastic fred (talk) 00:34, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

October 1, 1961. Technically the first indy in Canada would be CFCN Calgary, signed on in September 1960 followed by CHAN Vancouver one month later.  єmarsee  • Speak up! 00:54, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

The ONTv logo

First of all, the FUR is wrong - "The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing CHCH-TV, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization". It's not in the infobox. The logo doesn't help the reader identify the organization, because the organization this article is about is CHCH-TV, not ONTv. It's not critically discussed either, other than to say "this logo was used from 1997-2001". The reader doesn't need this logo to understand that the station was renamed during this time (WP:NFCC#8). As such, the logo is spurious per NFCC. Black Kite 17:24, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I've placed the free File:CHCH ONTV.svg into the article, but was reverted, several times. Maybe someone can help here? I would do it myself, but I would be headed towards 3RR, at the moment, I'm only at 2. єmarsee  • Speak up! 17:25, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Powergate92.  єmarsee  • Speak up! 17:43, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Tiny Talent Time

This program is coming back for a 12 week run. The local show will be broadcast Saturdays beginning Sept 6 2014 with a rebroadcast on Sundays. The original show started in 1957. It was discontinued for a few years and then ran through 1992. This will be the third run.1archie99 (talk) 17:05, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

They are always announcing that it is being rebooted, restarted, revitalized. It never works out. ~2026-54876-2 (talk) 09:47, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Bankruptcy and restructuring

Thanks for your edits, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Robloxian56 Peter K Burian 23:34, 16 December 2015 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peter_K_Burian

Station Location

This is another example of an article that is either out of date or written by someone who doesn't understand the topic. CHCH as a TV station is operated out of Toronto by Channel Zero. Before that it was operated out of Toronto by Global/Shaw Media (Since named Corus Media) Many years ago CHCH operated its station out of Hamilton. Which is to say that the management, studios and newsroom plus on air operations originated in a facilities or facilities in Hamilton. But for many years all that has been operated out of Hamilton has been the CHCH News rooms. All of the programming, commercials, promos and playback is out of the Toronto station. ~2026-54876-2 (talk) 09:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Please provide reliable sources to support these claims. Flibirigit (talk) 12:19, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

The Wikidiots are at it again. "Please provide reliable sources to support these claims" has become a mantra. And it isn't about scholarship or credibility. It is simply the biproduct of articles written by individuals who know nothing about the subject. Anyone formally educated in Canadian media knows the difference between the location of a channel's news room and production facilities and the station where the programming, commercial content is actually stored, organized and transmitted. I'm not attempting to write the article for you. I am pointing you in the right direction. There are many articles in popular media and trade journals that covered the move of these stations and their operations. The websites of these companies often tell you where their newsrooms operate and where their channels originate and are operated from. And those of us who work in the industry are in the facilities and communicate with the various operation centres and partners.

The article is seriously flawed and incorrect. But the Wikidiots make it easy to publish a bad article and are incredibly reluctant to learn and fix their mistakes. We're talking about people lacking intellectual curiosity and the ability to do real research. ~2026-14747-11 (talk) 08:50, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

I'd like to reply, having dealt with discussions like this one in the past.

Broadcasting stations are unique in that they are legally tied to a community, even though the amount of facilities they have in said community can range from nothing to everything. At one end of the spectrum, the only tie a station may have to the community on its license is that you can watch it there, but the studio might even be outside of the area and the transmitter in another municipality (e.g. KPPX-TV). On the other end, the transmitter, studios, and regulatory designation are all in the same place (e.g. WPIX). There are also stations, as you point out, that have historically had a separate facility for newsgathering from other technical tasks. And increasingly playout functions are centralized in hubs that may service stations thousands of miles apart. This is quite prevalent in the United States now. For instance, a facility in Norfolk, Virginia, handles playout for TV stations as distant as Nebraska and Florida.

What overrides most of these concerns is that legal designation, which persists to this day: CHCH-DT Hamilton, Ontario. The station, unlike some, still has facilities in Hamilton, and that's the address listed on the contact page. If there are sources about things like master control, we can always work that into the article text. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:41, 8 March 2026 (UTC)