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**CJOH-DT** (channel 13) is a television station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by Baton Broadcasting alongside Pembroke-based CTV outlet CHRO-DT, channel 5 (although the two stations maintain separate operations). CJOH-DT's studios are located at the One60 Elgin buliding in downtown Ottawa, while the transmitter is located on the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Chelsea, Quebec, north of Gatineau.

CJOH provides CTV network coverage for all of Eastern Ontario, a large segment of Western Quebec and portions of Northern New York, USA. The station broadcasts on Channel 13 from the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Gatineau, Quebec (serving Ottawa-Gatineau); Channel 8 from Lancaster, Ontario (serving Cornwall and, indirectly, Montreal); Channel 6 from Deseronto (serving Kingston and, indirectly, Watertown, New York) and Channel 47 from Pembroke.

## History

Founded by Ernie Bushnell, CJOH signed on for the first time on March 12, 1961. Initially, studio facilities were located at 29 Bayswater Avenue (45.4067°N 75.7204°W) until that September when operations were shifted over several weeks to a $2 million (CA$) complex at 1500 Merivale.

It acquired former Cornwall, Ontario CBC affiliate CJSS-TV as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first television station in Canada to cease operations. The channel 6 transmitter in Deseronto became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. Standard Broadcasting owned the station from 1975 to 1987; that year, after a CRTC decision authorized Baton Broadcasting to launch a new independent station in Ottawa, Standard responded to the potential new competition by selling CJOH to Baton, who then surrendered the new independent licence. Baton was renamed CTV Inc. in 1998 after gaining control of the CTV network the preceding year. CTV in turn would be purchased by Bell Canada and folded into Bell Globemedia, now Bell Media, in 2001.

On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor Brian Smith was shot in the station's parking lot by Jeffrey Arenburg, a released mental patient with a history of threatening media personalities, who claimed the station was broadcasting messages inside his head. Smith died in hospital the following day. The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law (Ontario Bill 68) – an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities. Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in Penetanguishene in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2008.

The newsroom was destroyed by a four-alarm fire during the early morning hours of February 7, 2010, destroying equipment and the news archives. The building itself remained intact until it was demolished by the end of December 2011. An adjacent office building housing CKQB-FM was not affected by the fire. CJOH's news operations were permanently relocated to Place Bell building in downtown Ottawa.

## News operation

CJOH-DT presently broadcasts 20½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3½ hours each weekday and 1½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in lieu of a local morning newscast, CJOH broadcasts local news headlines during its broadcast of CTV's semi-national morning program Canada AM. The station also produces the current affairs program Regional Contact and Tech Now, a technology news program.

Local newscasts (under the name CJOH News) are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. The newscasts are called Midday Newsline/Newsline/Nightline (depending on the time of day) since the 1970s. (In 1982, the 6 p.m. newscast Newsline became, for a brief time, Canada's first 90-minute local supper hour newscast.) On July 7, 2014, the station unveiled a new studio to accompany the transition to high definition news production. On August 28, 2017, CJOH launched a new hour of local news content titled Early Newsline, part of expanded local newscasts announced in June of that year.

### Newscast times

Weekdays

* 12pm - 1pm: Midday Newsline with Leanne Cusack and Matt Skube
* 5pm - 6pm: Early Newsline with Matt Skube and Patricia Boal
* 6pm - 7pm: Newsline with Carol Anne Meehan and Graham Richardson
* 11:30pm - 12:05am: Nightline with Patricia Boal

Weekends

* 6pm - 7pm: Newsline with Christina Succi
* 11:30pm - 12:05am: Nightline with Christina Succi