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The station was launched on September 16, 2002 as a sister to CFMT; at the same time, Rogers launched Omni Television as a blanket brand for the stations by branding the new station as Omni.2, followed by re-branding CFMT as Omni.1 as well as the rest of Canada in subsequent years. The two stations are distinguished by their service of different cultural groups; CJMT focuses on Asian cultures (including programming in South Asian and Chinese languages) while CFMT caters primarily on European (particularly Western and Eastern) and Latin American cultures.[2]
History
Omni Television Logo used from 2002 to 2018.
The station signed on the air on September 16, 2002, broadcasting on UHF channel 44.[3] In 2004, CJMT moved its channel allocation to UHF channel 69.[4] The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as part of the same process that approved independent stationCKXT-TV (channel 51, now defunct) and was proposed to be known as CFMT Too.[2] The "J" in its callsign has no particular meaning, except that it was an available callsign that maintained the "MT" lettering (standing for "Multicultural Television") from CFMT (CJMT was formerly the callsign of a now-defunct AM radio station in Chicoutimi, Quebec).
On May 19, 2005, the CRTC approved an application by Rogers Broadcasting Limited to operate a transitional digital television programming undertaking at Ottawa, operating on channel 66C with an average effective radiated power of 7,110 watts.[5]
On October 8, 2007, Rogers announced that the operations of the two Omni stations would relocate from 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West to 33 Dundas Street East.[6] CJMT and CFMT integrated their operations into the building – which it shares with City flagship CITY-DT, which moved into the facility the previous month – on October 19, 2009.
CJMT-DT broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each weekday). The station carries two local newscasts aimed at Southern Ontario's Asian demographic, presented in the Mandarin and Cantonese languages.
CJMT launched its news operation the day the station began operations on September 16, 2002, with newscasts airing in Mandarin and South Asian languages as well as a Cantonese language newscast that moved to the station from sister station CFMT. The South Asian edition had previously aired once a week and was known as South Asian Newsweek. The South Asian newscast was cancelled in June 2013 due to corporate cutbacks at Rogers Media, that included the shutdown of production operations at CJMT's sister stations, CJCO-DT in Calgary and CJEO-DT in Edmonton.[9]
The length of the weekday Mandarin news program has been half an hour from its launch on September 3, 1979, to April 30, 2010, and was extended to one hour on May 3, 2010.
In September 2017, with the launch of Omni National, Omni 2 started production of news programs in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Punjabi.
Notable former on-air staff
Stanley So (蘇凌峰) – former anchor of OMNI News: Cantonese Edition, now retired
CJMT shut down its analogue signal, over UHF channel 69, on August 31, 2011, the official date on which full-power television stations in larger Canadian television marketstransitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The conversion coincided with a change in transmitters, from the analogue transmitter atop First Canadian Place to a digital transmitter on the CN Tower alongside its Rogers Media sister stations.[11]
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using virtual channel 69.[12] In August 2012, the digital signal relocated to UHF channel 40, after that channel was vacated due to the shutdown of CKXT-DT.[13] The virtual channel was remapped to physical digital channel 40 with the relocation of the digital signal to that frequency.
^"CJMT-DT". History of Canadian Broadcasting. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved September 17, 2017. The Toronto transmitter would operate on channel 51 with an effective radiated power of 18,100 watts (non-directional) with effective antenna height of 501.4 metres from the CN Tower (the analogue transmitter was atop First Canadian Place)
