CFVO-TV

CFVO-TV
Three stylized outlined hands surround a circle containing the letters CFVO as well as the letters UHF and the number 30, the latter two in an extended sans serif. The top of the F is cut slightly so as to suggest the reading of them as CTVO.
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsTVA
Ownership
OwnerLa Coopérative de Télévision de l'Outaouais
History
First air date
September 1, 1974 (50 years ago) (1974-09-01)
Last air date
March 30, 1977 (47 years ago) (1977-03-30)
(2 years, 210 days)
Technical information
ERP727 kW[1]
Transmitter coordinates45°30′11″N 75°51′02″W / 45.50306°N 75.85056°W / 45.50306; -75.85056

CFVO-TV was a television station that broadcast from Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau). It launched on September 1, 1974, under the ownership of the Coopérative de Télévision de l'Outaouais (Outaouais Television Cooperative, CTVO). CFVO transmitted on channel 30, broadcasting mostly TVA network programming with various local shows; it was the first private French-language TV station in the Ottawa–Hull area and the first cooperatively owned television station in Canada.

Constantly dogged by financial trouble, the station went bankrupt and ceased broadcasting on March 30, 1977. The channel 30 equipment was bought from bankruptcy by Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec) and used to start CIVO-TV, the network's Outaouais transmitter; the CRTC awarded a new commercial station for the area in 1978, which became CHOT-TV (channel 40).

  1. ^ "CFVO-TV" (PDF). Broadcasting Yearbook. 1977. p. B-143 (213). Archived (PDF) from the original on September 6, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020 – via World Radio History.