CISA-TV
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CISA-DT is a Canadian television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 serving Lethbridge
Lethbridge
Lethbridge is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada, and the largest city in southern Alberta. It is Alberta's fourth-largest city by population after Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer, and the third-largest by area after Calgary and Edmonton. The nearby Canadian Rockies contribute to the city's...

, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

. It is owned by Shaw Media
Shaw Media
Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...

, and is affiliated to their Global Television Network
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...

. It is branded as Global Lethbridge and transmits on channel 7 and cable channel 5 in Lethbridge. Its high-definition/digital signal is available on Shaw HD on channel 211.

CISA's programming is similar to CICT-TV, the Global O&O in Calgary. CISA's master control is also based out of CICT, along with all the rest of Shaw's television stations. The station carries the full Global network schedule.

CJLH-TV

The station began as CJLH-TV, broadcasting for the first time on November 20, 1955. It broadcast on channel 7 with a power output of 167,000 watts visual and 33,400 watts aural from a 638-foot tower located at what was the city limits of Lethbridge.

The station was a joint venture between local radio station CJOC
CJRX-FM
CJRX-FM is a radio station in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Owned by Rogers Media, the station airs an active rock format branded as Rock 106.-History:Originally, CJRX-FM was operated as CJOC on an AM frequency...

 (the CJ in the call sign) and the Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge Herald is the leading paper in the Lethbridge, Alberta area, with an average weekday circulation of 18,185 in the six-month period ending March 31, 2007. This local paper has been serving southern Alberta since 1905....

(the LH). It was managed by CJOC's owners, Taylor Pearson and Carson, and began life as an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

's (CBC) television network. Network programs on kinescope
Kinescope
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program made by filming the picture from a video monitor...

 arrived within a few days to a week after they went to air live in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, or the U.S. networks.

Three months after CJLH went to air, measurement services showed that the station had a potential audience of 9,400 homes, but within a year, that grew to 19,200, and of those, 16,000 had bought TV sets. At the time, CJLH was the only station in the Lethbridge area.

Local programming at the time included:
  • Local news, sports and weather
  • Channel 7 Spotlight, showcasing area talent
  • Remember When, a series of programs hosted by Harry Baalim using slides, pictures and relics to tell the history of Southern Alberta
    Southern Alberta
    Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of the year 2004, the region's population was approximately 272,017. The primary cities are Lethbridge and Medicine Hat...

    . Many old timers were guests on that show, and
  • Home Gardener, featuring many experts in the field demonstrating proper horticultural technique.


These programs (amongst others) earned the station many awards, including seven Liberty Magazine
Liberty Magazine
Liberty is a magazine published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church that covers issues involving separation of church and state, and current events in politics...

 awards in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1958, the Eastern Time
North American Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...

 problem the station had in relation to networked programming was eliminated when it was connected to the network and the Calgary time-delay centre. The problem still existed for live sports events, such as hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 and football
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

.

In 1961, CJLH expanded into the Crowsnest Pass
Crowsnest Pass
Crowsnest Pass is a high mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta/British Columbia border.-Geography:...

 area, by opening a repeater station at Burmis
Burmis, Alberta
Burmis is an unincorporated community in southern Alberta in Pincher Creek MD, located on Highway 3, southwest of Lethbridge....

 on channel 3. In 1967, The Lethbridge Herald sold its 50% holding to Selkirk Holdings Ltd, the successor to Taylor Pearson & Carson. Also that year, an application from CFCN-TV
CFCN-TV
CFCN-DT is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Calgary, Alberta. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is a part of the CTV Television Network. The station also operates a semi-satellite in Lethbridge....

 Calgary to open a repeater station in Lethbridge was unsuccessful.

However, a year later in 1968, an agreement was reached between CFCN and CJLH to share space on the CJLH tower and building for technical equipment. On September 3, CFCN went on the air with a repeater station on channel 13. Also in 1968, the station's first 2-inch black and white video tape recorder was installed, and a repeater in Brooks
Brooks, Alberta
Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada surrounded by the County of Newell. It is located on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an elevation of .- History :The area that is now Brooks was originally...

 was made operational, transmitting on channel 3 at low power.

CJOC-TV

In 1970, production was increased significantly when they became a two-camera operation. Two years later, in 1972, CJLH changed its call sign to CJOC-TV, and continued local production with shows such as
  • Time Out
  • Ski Reports
  • Our Town
  • Sunday Hour
  • Thought for the Day
  • Focus on University
  • College Campus
  • and numerous specials


In 1974, CJOC went full colour with two colour cameras and three colour 1" VTRs. CFCN moved out of the CJOC building and into its own that year.

CFAC-TV

In 1975, CFAC-TV
CICT-TV
CICT-DT is a Canadian television station, licensed to and serving Calgary, Alberta. It is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network...

 in Calgary, also owned by Selkirk, disaffiliated from the CBC, and became an independent station. CFAC and CJOC co-operated to protect local advertisers when CFAC was put on local cable services. In 1976, CJOC disaffiliated from the CBC and became a semi-satellite of CFAC, with the calls CFAC-TV-7. It added a satellite dish to get a news feed from Global Television
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...

. The station took on the same branding as CFAC Calgary, known as 2&7 Lethbridge Television. In 1979, the station increased its power to 167,000 watts video and 33,400 watts audio.

Local programming continued to play an important role at the station, with successful shows such as:
  • Sky West, which was syndicated to CHCH-TV Hamilton
    Hamilton, Ontario
    Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

    , BCTV
    CHAN-TV
    CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...

     Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

     and CFCF-TV
    CFCF-TV
    CFCF-DT is a CTV-owned and operated station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

     Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

    . It was also judged best syndicated
    Television syndication
    In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...

     show in the country at the time.
  • We Won’t Let Him Die, which won the CanPro Founders award in 1983
  • Kids Belong Together (1990) and Key to Literacy (1992), both shows won the Canadian Association of Broadcasters
    Canadian Association of Broadcasters
    The Canadian Association of Broadcasters was the national voice of Canada's private broadcasters, representing the vast majority of Canadian programming services, including private radio and television stations, specialty, pay and pay-per-view services....

     Gold Ribbon Award for community involvement.

CISA-TV

In 1989, Maclean Hunter bought Selkirk Communications Ltd., and CFAC-TV-7 was purchased by Western International Communications
Western International Communications
WIC Western International Communications Ltd.The apparent occurrence of "RAS syndrome" here was in fact part of the company's legal name. was a Canadian media company that operated from 1982 to 2000, with operations including broadcast and specialty television, radio, and satellite distribution via...

, and joined the Westcom TV Group. A year later, the station became a full-fledged station once again as CISA-TV.

Through the years, CISA's commitment to local programming has continued to reap both industry awards, making it one of the country's most awarded stations, and audience numbers in its local area.

In 1998, the Griffiths family sold WIC to Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

 and Canwest. In 1999, agreements were lodged with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to split WIC assets between Canwest, Corus Radio and Shaw. The CRTC approved the purchase in 2000: WIC Television was sold to Canwest, and CISA-TV became Global Lethbridge on September 4 that year.

CISA was the last Global station to have its website integrated into the canada.com network. On September 10, 2008, news production for CISA shifted from Lethbridge to Calgary, with the addition of a new virtual set.

Newscasts and other local programming

The station produces newscasts originating from Lethbridge at 6 p.m. (titled News Hour) and 11 p.m. (titled News Final). On weekends, the station's newscasts air at 6 p.m. (titled Evening News) and 11 p.m. (titled News Final).

The station also simulcasts the weekday morning Morning News, the Noon News Hour, and the 5 p.m. Early News from Global Calgary.

On-air staff

+ denotes CICT-TV personnel

Anchors
  • + Scott Fee - Morning News and Noon News Hour (weekdays at 5:30 a.m. and noon)
  • + Cara Fullerton - Noon News Hour (weekdays at noon); also Morning News reporter and fill-in anchor
  • Shannon Greer - Evening News and News Final (weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.); also weeknight reporter
  • Pete Gregory - News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.)
  • Ian McDonald - News Hour (weeknights at 6 p.m.) - off air indefinitely recovering from motorcycle accident
  • + Linda Olsen - Early News (weeknights at 5 p.m.)
  • Tom Roulston - News Hour (weeknights at 6 p.m.)
  • + Amber Schinkel - Morning News (weekdays at 5:30 a.m.)


Weather team
  • Mark Campbell - weather anchor; News Hour (weeknights at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.), also host of Scene & Heard
  • + Paul Dunphy - (CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) meteorologist; Early News (weeknights at 5 p.m.)
  • + Carla Bosacki - weather specialist; Evening News & News Final (weekends at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.)
  • + Jordan Witzel - meteorologist; Morning News & Noon News Hour (weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m. and noon)


Sports team
  • Marty Baceda - sports director; News Hour (weeknights at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.)
  • Paul Kingsmith - sports anchor; Evening News (weekends at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weekends at 11 p.m.)


Traffic
  • + Katrina Green - Morning News (weekdays at 5:30 a.m.) (in Global 1)
  • + Leslie Horton - Morning News (weekdays at 5:30 a.m.) and Noon News Hour (weekdays at noon)
  • + Jim King - Early News (weekdays at 5 p.m.)
  • + Pauline Rees - Morning News (weekdays at 5:30 a.m.) (in Global 1)


Reporters
  • Quinn Campbell
  • + Tomasia DaSilva - CICT-TV business reporter
  • Alison Hawkins
  • Mike McKinnon
  • Elisha Rasmussen - Profile and Senior Savvy feature reporter
  • Kimberly Tams
  • + Heather Yourex - CICT-TV Health FYI reporter

Former on-air staff

  • Dallas Flexhaug (now at CICT-TV
    CICT-TV
    CICT-DT is a Canadian television station, licensed to and serving Calgary, Alberta. It is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network...

     in Calgary)
  • Holly Horton
    Holly Horton
    Holly Horton is a Canadian sportscaster who worked for TSN from July 16, 2004 to October 30, 2011. She co-hosted SportsCentre at the 11 PM and 2 AM broadcast on weekends along with Bryan Mudryk...

     (now co-host of TSN
    The Sports Network
    The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

    's SportsCentre
    SportsCentre
    SportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....

    )
  • Tracy Nagai (now at CICT-TV
    CICT-TV
    CICT-DT is a Canadian television station, licensed to and serving Calgary, Alberta. It is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network...

     in Calgary)
  • Cheryl Oates (Media Rights Education Officer at the African University College of Communications)
  • Quinn Ohler (now at CITV-TV
    CITV-TV
    CITV-DT is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Known on air as Global Edmonton, the station is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network. It transmits on channel 13 and cable 8 in Edmonton, and is carried on the Bell TV and Shaw...

     in Edmonton)
  • Lisa Ostrikoff (co-creator of BizBOXTV.com)
  • Vinesh Pratap (now at CITV-TV
    CITV-TV
    CITV-DT is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Known on air as Global Edmonton, the station is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network. It transmits on channel 13 and cable 8 in Edmonton, and is carried on the Bell TV and Shaw...

     in Edmonton)
  • Jackson Proskow
    Jackson Proskow
    Jackson Proskow is a Canadian journalist, currently working for the Global Television Network in Toronto, Canada at television station CIII-TV....

     (now journalist with CIII-TV
    CIII-TV
    CIII-DT-41 is a television station owned by Shaw Communications that serves much of the population of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is a flagship station of the Global Television Network...

     in Toronto)
  • Brenna Rose (now at CKND-TV
    CKND-TV
    CKND-DT is a television station that broadcasts from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the Manitoba outlet for the Global Television Network.-History:...

     in Winnipeg)
  • Amber Schinkel (now at CICT-TV
    CICT-TV
    CICT-DT is a Canadian television station, licensed to and serving Calgary, Alberta. It is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network...

     in Calgary)
  • Heather Yourex (now at CICT-TV
    CICT-TV
    CICT-DT is a Canadian television station, licensed to and serving Calgary, Alberta. It is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network...

     in Calgary)

Digital television and high definition

July 27, 2011, the station shut down its Lethbridge analog transmitter and flash cut to digital. They were the first station in Southern Alberta to convert to digital. CISA-DT broadcasts on channel 7. Digital television receivers will display CISA-DT's virtual channel as 7.1, with the use of PSIP.

The following translators will continue to offer the analog signal after CISA's main Lethbridge transmitter is converted to digital.

Alberta Translators

Station City of licence
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....

Channel
Channel (broadcasting)
In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast...

ERP
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

HAAT
Height above average terrain
Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts...

Transmitter Coordinates
CISA-TV-1 Burmis
Burmis, Alberta
Burmis is an unincorporated community in southern Alberta in Pincher Creek MD, located on Highway 3, southwest of Lethbridge....

3 (VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...

)
0.409 kW 128 m 49°31′54"N 114°11′41"W
CISA-TV-2 Brooks
Brooks, Alberta
Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada surrounded by the County of Newell. It is located on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an elevation of .- History :The area that is now Brooks was originally...

3 (VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...

)
0.01 kW NA 50°32′3"N 111°55′0"W
CISA-TV-3 Coleman
Coleman, Alberta
Coleman is an urban community in the Rocky Mountains within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in southwest Alberta, Canada. It was formerly incorporated as a town prior to 1979 when it amalgamated with four other municipalities to form Crowsnest Pass....

12 (VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...

)
0.01 kW NA 49°34′39"N 114°30′6"W
CISA-TV-4 Waterton Park
Waterton Park, Alberta
Waterton Park, commonly referred to as Waterton, is a hamlet in southwestern Alberta, Canada within Improvement District No. 4 Waterton ....

12 (VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...

)
0.001 kW NA 49°3′32"N 113°54′23"W
CISA-TV-5 Pincher Creek
Pincher Creek, Alberta
Pincher Creek is a town in the southwest of Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies in the centre of ranching country, north of Waterton Lakes National Park.The town's mayor is Ernie Olsen.- History :...

9 (VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...

)
0.001 kW NA 49°28′48"N 113°58′1"W

Montana Translators

(All transmitters in Montana are owned either by local governments or television associations.)
Station City of licence
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....

Channel
Channel (broadcasting)
In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast...

ERP
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

K65BR Chinook
Chinook, Montana
Chinook is a city in and the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,386 at the 2000 census. Points of interest are the Bear Paw Battlefield Museum located in the small town's center and the Bear Paw Battlefield, located just twenty miles south of...

65 0.07 kW
K12DJ Conrad
Conrad, Montana
Conrad is a city in and the county seat of Pondera County, Montana, United States. The population was 2,753 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Conrad is located at ....

12 0.01 kW
K08IU East Glacier Park 8 0.01 kW
K63AQ Sweetgrass
Sweetgrass, Montana
Sweet Grass is an unincorporated community in Toole County, Montana, United States, on the Canada-US border. It is the northern terminus of Interstate 15, an important route connecting western Canada, the western United States, and Mexico.In 2004, a joint border facility opened at the Sweetgrass...

63 0.24 kW
K36DK Toole 36 1.26 kW

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