CJEO-TV, branded as
Omni Alberta, is a television station in
EdmontonEdmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies...
,
AlbertaAlberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south....
. The station is owned by
Rogers CommunicationsRogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. It is headquartered in the Rogers Building in Toronto, Ontario.The company considers...
, and broadcasts a multicultural programming format as part of Rogers'
Omni TelevisionOmni Television, corporately styled as OMNI Television, is a Canadian television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications. It consists of the company's conventional television stations which are licensed as multicultural stations...
system. It broadcasts its analog signal on channel 56.
The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on June 8, 2007, and it launched on September 15, 2008.
CJEO-TV, branded as
Omni Alberta, is a television station in
EdmontonEdmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies...
,
AlbertaAlberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south....
. The station is owned by
Rogers CommunicationsRogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. It is headquartered in the Rogers Building in Toronto, Ontario.The company considers...
, and broadcasts a multicultural programming format as part of Rogers'
Omni TelevisionOmni Television, corporately styled as OMNI Television, is a Canadian television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications. It consists of the company's conventional television stations which are licensed as multicultural stations...
system. It broadcasts its analog signal on channel 56.
The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on June 8, 2007, and it launched on September 15, 2008. The station was originally assigned the call sign CHXE by
Industry CanadaIndustry Canada is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regional economic development, investment, and innovation/research and development. The department employs 6104 FTEs across Canada....
, but this was changed to CJEO in February 2008.
Newscasts
Omni Alberta produces three nightly television newscasts aimed at the
CantoneseCantonese sensu stricto, also known as Canton dialect or Guangzhou dialect, is the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese , especially when pronounced with a Canton City accent...
, Mandarin, and South Asian communities across the province. While there are news gathering teams in both Edmonton and
CalgaryCalgary is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada.The Calgary census metropolitan area is the third most diverse in Canada in terms of visible minorities after Toronto and Vancouver when considering only CMAs with population greater than 200,000...
, the production of the newscasts themselves are done out of the Citytv/Omni studios in
Downtown EdmontonDowntown Edmonton, Alberta is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue, 100 Avenue, and Rossdale Road to the south and Jasper Avenue to the southeast , though many people consider part or all of the surrounding neighborhoods to be part of downtown...
.
- Omni News - Mandarin Edition (Weekdays 5:00pm)
- Omni News - South Asian Edition (Weeknights 8:00pm)
- Omni News - Cantonese Edition (Weeknights 9:00pm)
Digital television and high definition
As of January 2009, CJEO-TV has not yet begun broadcasting in digital.
After the
analog television shutdown and digital conversionDigital terrestrial television in Canada, like the United States, Mexico and South Korea, is based on the US ATSC standard.The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission initially decided not to enforce a single date for ending analog broadcasts, opting to let market forces decide...
, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on August 31, 2011 , CJEO-TV is required to begin digital broadcasts on its current assigned channel number, 44. However, through the use of
PSIPThe Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch by...
, digital television receivers will display CJEO-TV's
virtual channelIn telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel in North America, is a channel designation which differs from the actual radio channel or frequency on which the signal travels....
as 56.1.
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