Talk:CJSS-TV

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My own records indicate a sign-on date of October 10, 1959 for this station. Denelson83  00:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)


 * According to broadcasting-history.ca, the TV station signed on in 1958 and the radio stations were acquired from an existing broadcaster in 1959. Which is correct, and what is your source for 1959? --66.102.80.212 (talk) 04:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

The Ottawa Citizen continued to indicate Channel 8 as CJSS in the early 1970s. Did they actually keep the CJSS-TV callsign and not use it on-air for some time?

Reportedly, CJSS rebroadcast CBOT for a time before it began rebroadcasting CJOH. This was prior to Bushnell acquiring the troubled station. Mjlarochelle 05:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * As far as I know, Bushnell would not have been able to keep the CJSS calls because they were still in use on the radio station. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 00:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the rules were different back then. When I get I chance to dig into the BBG archives, I'll have a better idea. From what I can tell from Google News Archives (which now include Canwest papers like the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette), Bushnell took over the existing CJSS-TV license until the end of the current term. Perhaps in those days changing Call Letters was not as trivial a task as it is today? --Wgm777 (talk) 04:03, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The 1969 issue of CRTC Broadcasting Stations in Canada still lists CJSS-TV as a CTV Station in Cornwall. This jives with my memory of CJOH IDing as "Channels 13 and 8, CJOH/CJSS-TV" during the sixties. Once the Deseronto repeater started, the ID switched to "CJOH-TV, channels 13, 8, and 6, serving the Ottawa and Seaway Valleys from the Nation's Capital." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.183.102Wgm777 (talk) 22:39, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

CJSS-TV 1961

 * I have seen a couple of articles in the Globe and Mail archives that give more of a background. On January 9, 1961, the G&M reports that Canadian Marconi of Montreal (then owner of CFCF-12) had acquired 50% of Cornwall Broadcasting, licensee of CJSS-TV and its AM and FM stations. In June 21, 1961, a report on Cornwall Broadcasting's application to the BBG (Board of Broadcast Governor's, the precursor to the CRTC) to disaffiliate from the the CBC. At that time, Cornwall Broadcasting was 50% owned by Marconi (CFCF) and 50% owned by Bushnell Communications (CJOH). I don't know who had owned the other 50% back in January, or from whom Marconi had bought its interest. -- Wgm777 (talk) 15:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I tried looking online for info about this station and, for a VHF channel which reached Montréal, there's surprisingly little about it. One amateur radio club claimed to have taken a studio tour of CJSS-TV 8 in 1961 but provide no useful info about the station. One or two mentions in passing on NERW long after the station was gone, but no photos: "Cornwall also has a TV station of sorts: a drive east to Lancaster, then north on Highway 34, brought us to the tower of what was once CJSS-TV (Channel 8). While its local identity has vanished after thirty-plus years as CJOH-TV-8, rebroadcasting the Ottawa CTV outlet, the huge '8' on the building at the tower base is a reminder of a long-gone small-town TV operation" and a few mentions of the radio stations or of CJOH-8 having been carried on Vidéotron (and dropped sometime after CFCF became a CTV O&O with much the same content). --66.102.80.212 (talk) 00:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I found some references to CJSS-TV by searching the upstate New York newspaper archives at . It looks like it was a CBC affilliate until sometime in the summer of 1961, independent (perhaps with some CTV shows) in the 1961-62 season, and then in 1963 a rebroadcaster of CJOH.
 * I also found an article about the CJSS-TV manager Don Martz speaking to the Saranac Lake or Tupper Lake Rotary club. I suspect this is the same Don Martz that went on to become General Manager at CFCF.-- Wgm777 (talk)

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Please note that under Wikipedia rules, a transmitter which operates solely as a rebroadcaster is not entitled to its own distinct article. This article, accordingly, is not to be written or structured as if it were about CJOH-8; it's to be written and structured as being about CJSS-TV specifically — its history ends where CJSS-TV's history as CJSS-TV ends. Its history as CJOH-8 goes into CJOH-TV, not here. Bearcat (talk) 19:13, 9 March 2009 (UTC)