CFCE-DT

CFCE-DT (channel 13) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Noovo flagship CFJP-DT (channel 25). Both stations share studios at the Bell Media building (formerly the Montréal Téléport), at the intersection of Avenue Papineau and Boulevard René-Lévesque Est in downtown Montreal, while CFCE-DT's transmitter is located atop Mount Royal.
==History==
====Canadian Marconi Company (1961–1972)====
On March 17, 1961, CFCE was an independent station.
Channel 12 joined CTV as a charter affiliate on October 1, 1961. However, despite its status as CTV's second-largest affiliate, its relationship with CTV was somewhat acrimonious over the years. Canadian Marconi, as would channel 12's numerous owners over the years, felt CTV's flagship station, CFTO-TV in Toronto, had too much influence over the network.
====Multiple Access (1972–1979)====
In 1968, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) required that all broadcasting outlets be 80% Canadian owned. Canadian Marconi was a subsidiary of the UK-based General Electric Company plc. Later in 1971, Canadian Marconi agreed to sell the stations to computer and telecommunications company Multiple Access Ltd., owned by the Bronfman family. In so doing, Canadian Marconi earned a handsome return on its original investment in CFCE, which long claimed to be the oldest radio station in Canada.
Multiple Access bought the stations after the CRTC refused to approve purchase offers by Baton Broadcasting, owner of CFDQ (other CTV partners opposed the sale, and Baton was not interested in buying the radio stations without channel 12 being included in the purchase), and by CHUM Limited (because of indecision over which radio stations would be sold to meet radio ownership limits in Montreal). Multiple Access also was co-owner of CITY-TV in Toronto (with CHUM) during this time 
====CFCE Inc. (1979–1992)====
In 1979, Multiple Access sold the stations and its production company, Champlain Productions, to CFCE Inc., headed by Jean Pouliot. This came after a deal by Baton to purchase Multiple Access' Montreal broadcasting operations fell through. CHUM successfully purchased Multiple Access' Toronto operations. Later on, the station began broadcasting a 24-hour schedule full of classic television shows and movies during the late night hours, because of the popularity of VHS and Betamax VCRs by that time. As of the present day, the station now airs mostly infomercials in late night.
CFCE Inc., expanded to include the assets of CF Cable TV, which was acquired by Pouliot in 1982, and went public in 1985. 
Two years later, the radio stations were sold to Mount-Royal Broadcasting, and moved out of the CFCE building a year later. Producer Bob Stewart then brought in Geoff Edwards to replace him; in turn, CFCF staff announcer Rod Charlebois was then given an on-air role, to satisfy CanCon requirements.
====Canwest Global and Videotron (1992–1997)====
Financial relief came to the company in the 1990s with an investment from Canwest Global Communications. In return, CFCF did not stand in the way of Canwest's plans to apply for a Global repeater station in Montreal. However, Canwest Global changed its mind, citing tax problems. 
In 1997, TVA sold controlling interest in CKMI to Canwest. The two companies announced plans to turn CKMI into a Global station, along with a CKMI repeater in Montreal and a large studio complex in Montreal. Pouliot was scared by the prospect of new competition and decided to get out. He initially planned to sell CFCE to Vidéotron. 
Vidéotron knew that the CRTC would never approve such an arrangement, so it sold CFCE to Western International Communications (WIC). Over the next few years, CFCE cut back its carriage of CTV programming to little more than the base schedule of 40 hours per week. This was due to longstanding tensions between WIC and CTV; the station filled out the rest of their schedule with WIC's own library of programming. This didn't pose a problem at first, since Ottawa's CKDH was available on cable in Montreal for most of the 1980s and 1990s; CKDH operates a repeater in Cornwall, Ontario whose footprint reaches Montreal.
Before 1997, when CITY launched rebroadcast transmitters in the Ottawa region, local cable companies there carried CFCE as well. Because CFCE were sharing some programs, CFCE was removed from these systems, except for Rogers Cable. Also around this time, CKDH was dropped from Montreal cable systems after its owner, Baton, bought controlling interest in CTV.
====CTV (2001–present)====
Canwest bought WIC's television assets in 2000. However, the CRTC did not allow Canwest to twinstick CFCE with CKMI. The commission believed that the Montreal region's anglophone population was too small to allow a twinstick of the city's private anglophone stations. It did, however, allow Canwest to keep CJNT-TV, a multicultural station WIC had bought a year earlier. CFCE was placed under trusteeship, and had to be sold in short order. In 2001, amid all these wranglings over ownership, Bell Globemedia, owner of CTV, bought the station. After 40 years of being master of its own house to a large degree, CFCE lost much of that independence and maneuverability through the CTV/Bell Globemedia deal.
With the opening of the Fall 2001 television season, CFCE officially adopted the full CTV schedule. The newscast dropped its longtime Pulse title in favour of the generic CFCE News. However, the Pulse brand was so firmly established that viewers still continued to called the newscasts by that title for several years. The station also adopted a new golden call letter logo similar to all other CTV owned stations, as well as similar promo and newscast graphics.
In 2003, CFCE left its location on Ogilvy Avenue it had occupied since 1961 and moved to a studio on Papineau Avenue in the eastern part of downtown, and the master control operations were moved to 9 Channel Nine Court in Toronto, the home of CTV flagship CFDQ. By this situation, CFCF overtook Vancouver's CFBC-TV to become the largest market with a CTV O&O station whose studios were located in a downtown area (Toronto's CFDQ-TV/DT had operated in the same 9 Channel Nine Court studios since its inception). The area has now become Montreal's main media district. In addition to sister Bell Media properties TQS and RDS, which are located in the same building as CFCE, the studio facilities of CBC/Radio-Canada, TVA, Télé-Québec, MétéoMédia and Bell Media's radio stations are all within several blocks.
On October 3, 2005, the station dropped the use of its call letters on-air, instead branding as simply "CTV", with the newscast becoming CTV News. This type of rebranding was instituted at all affiliates across the country to provide a common brand for the entire network.
By 2005, Bell Globemedia was considered to be a non-core asset by parent company Bell Canada Enterprises and was sold to a group of investors, which included the Thomson family. The Bell Globemedia group was renamed CTVglobemedia in late 2006. In April 2011, BCE re-acquired full ownership of CTVglobemedia and changed the new division's name to Bell Media. The new media giant also acquired CHUM Limited's holdings in 2006, including the A-Channel stations, MuchMusic and a variety of other specialty channels. But the CHUM deal also raised serious questions about the high degree of media concentration in Canada. This new conglomerate owned more than one television station in several Canadian markets—increasing the worry about job losses and cutbacks.
In 2009, CFCE discontinued the Telethon of Stars that aired during the first weekend of December, consecutively, for 32 years from 1977 to 2009; the removal of the telethon from the station was due to budget cuts made by CTV as a result of the economic crisis. In December 2010, the Telethon of Stars could only be seen through the Internet (via an 8-hour webcast), with no television equivalent broadcast. It was dropped entirely shortly thereafter.
On August 5, 2009, CTV camera operator, 44-year-old Hugh Haugland was killed after a helicopter crash near Mont-Laurier about 240 kilometres (149 mi) from Montreal, Haugland was shooting footage of the destruction left behind by a tornado that touched down in the area on August 4, 2009. Haugland was the son of Canadian journalist and retired former television news anchor for CFCE-TV in Montreal, Bill Haugland. The other person killed in the crash was Roger Belanger, a veteran pilot and local businessman who was in his 60s.
On August 16, 2024, a water main break on René Lévesque Boulevard caused the flooding and evacuation of CFCE's main studio and newsroom, as well as the closure of those facilities for eventual restoration. The flood destroyed several pieces of equipment stored in the station's basement, including satellite trucks and field equipment. Newscast production was temporarily moved to the offices of corporate parent BCE Inc. on nearby Nuns' Island.
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