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Branding | Global Montreal |
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Affiliations | Global |
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History | |
First air date | March 17, 1957Quebec City; moved to Montreal in 2009) | (in
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Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
ERP | 8 kW |
HAAT | 298 m (978 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′20″N 73°35′30″W / 45.50556°N 73.59167°W |
Repeater(s) | see § Transmitters |
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Website | Global Montreal |
CKMI-DT (channel 15) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, the station maintains studios inside the Dominion Square Building in downtown Montreal. Its primary transmitter is located atop Mount Royal, with rebroadcasters in Quebec City and Sherbrooke.
CKMI was established as Quebec City's second station in 1957. Originally a private affiliate of the CBC Television network, It was the only English-language station in the heavily francophone city. It struggled to survive for most of its first four decades, in part because its potential audience was barely large enough to support it. In 1997, it was transformed into a regional Global station for Quebec with additional transmitters, including in Montreal. It moved most of its operations to Montreal that year, though it would nominally remain licensed to Quebec City until 2009. The station's local news broadcasts have typically struggled in the ratings, never advancing beyond a distant second place.