On Thursday Rogers Media announced that they would be taking over CJNT in Montreal and it's intention to convert the station in a CityTV station. This would put CityTV into Canada's second largest market and estentionally give the network coast to coast coverage.
CJNT is indicative of the ownership carosell that has occured in Canadian television. Like many a new station it was given to inexperienced owners and soon taken over by a large media company, which was taken over by a larger media company and so on.
To be speicific CJNT was founded in the 1980's as a public access ethnic station. The UFH station wasn't even carried on cable until the late ninties when Western international Communications took over the tiny station to develop stronger competition from CanWest Global when Global took over CKMI (Now Global Montreal). It was only two years later that CJNT became CH wehn Global took over WIC. The station continued to struggle as CH and E! under CanWest Global. After the demise of CanWest the station owned by Channel Zero has been known as Metro14.
