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{{Short description|TVA television station in Saguenay, Quebec}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = CJPM-DT
| city                   =
| logo                   = File:TVA logo 2020.svg
| logo_size              = 200px
| branding               = TVA ''(general)''<br>{{nowrap|''[[TVA Nouvelles]] (newscasts)''}}
| digital                = 46 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])<br>''(to move to 24 (UHF))''
| virtual                = 6
| translators            = 10 CJPM-TV-1 [[Roberval, Quebec|Roberval]]
| affiliations           = [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]]
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1963|4|14|p=y}}
| location               = [[Saguenay, Quebec]]
| country                = Canada
| callsign_meaning       = 
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = 
| owner                  = [[Groupe TVA]]
| licensee               = 
| sister_stations        = 
| former_affiliations    = [[Independent station (North America)|Independent]] (1963–1971)
| erp                    = '''CJPM-DT:''' 200 [[kilowatt|kW]]<br>'''CJPM-TV-1:''' 23.5 kW
| haat                   = '''CJPM-DT:''' {{Convert|107.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}<br>'''CJPM-TV-1:''' {{convert|164|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| coordinates            = '''CJPM-DT:'''<br>{{coord|48|24|28|N|71|5|4|W|type:landmark}}<br>'''CJPM-TV-1:'''<br>{{coord|48|23|20|N|72|5|20|W|type:landmark|name=CJPM-TV-1}}
| licensing_authority    = [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]]
| website                = [https://archive.today/20130118203811/http://tva.canoe.com/stations/cjpm/ TVA Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean] 
}}
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'''CJPM-DT''', [[virtual channel]] 6 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]] [[digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 46), is a [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]] [[owned-and-operated station|owned-and-operated]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Saguenay, Quebec]], Canada. The station is owned by the [[Groupe TVA]] subsidiary of [[Quebecor Media]]. CJPM-DT's studios and transmitter are located on Rue du Mont Sainte Claire in the former city of [[Chicoutimi]].

==History==
The station signed on for the first time on April 14, 1963, as '''CJPM-TV'''. Its owner, John Murdock, who died on October 2 of that same year, soon realized that he didn't have the revenue to challenge [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio-Canada]] affiliate CKRS-TV (now [[CKTV-DT]]) on his own. To obtain better programming, he started sharing CJPM's programs with the largest privately owned francophone station in Canada, [[CFTM-DT|CFTM-TV]] in [[Montreal]], owned by Télé-Métropole. Along with [[Quebec City]]'s [[CFCM-DT|CFCM-TV]] (owned by Télévision de Québec, a consortium of theatre chain Famous Players and Quebec City's two private AM radio stations, CHRC and CKCV, which joined the group in 1964 after disaffiliating from Radio-Canada), this collective of [[Independent station (North America)|independent stations]] was the forerunner of TVA, though the network wasn't formally created until September 12, 1971, with CJPM as one of its three charter affiliates, alongside CFTM and CFCM.

John Murdock's family sold the station to Télé-Métropole in 1982. It became a TVA owned-and-operated station when Télé-Métropole bought majority control of the network in 1990. Since then it has been basically a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts. It was licensed to Chicoutimi until the formation of the "megacity" of Saguenay in 2002.

CJPM-DT signed on its digital signal on August 29, 2011, from a temporary antenna at Mont Sainte-Claire.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509175815/http://tva.canoe.com/stations/cjpm/ TVA Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]
*[https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/quebec/quebec-ville-de-quebec-et-est-du-quebec/CJPM-DT CJPM-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CJPM}}

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