CKRN-DT
CKRN-DT, branded Radio-Canada Télévision CKRN, was a television station licensed to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada, affiliated with Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Privately owned by RNC Media, it essentially functioned as a semi-satellite of Montreal Radio-Canada flagship station CBFT-DT due to not having alternative non-network sources of programming available.
CKRN-DT was sister to TVA outlet CFEM-DT and Val-d'Or V outlet CFVS-DT, and the three stations shared studios on Avenue Murdoch and Avenue de la Saint Anne in Rouyn-Noranda. CKRN-DT's transmitter was located near Chemin Powell.
History
The station commenced broadcasting on December 25, 1957 as then-Radio-Nord's first television station, sharing its callsign with its radio sister station, CKRN AM 1400. It was originally an affiliate of Radio-Canada and the English language CBC. The CBC subsequently launched a rebroadcaster in Malartic of its English Montreal affiliate CBMT in the area in 1961, CBVD-TV channel 5, and CKRN dropped its English programming in 1962.On March 1, 2018, it was announced that CKRN would cease broadcasting at midnight on March 25. RNC announced it wanted to concentrate its efforts on CFEM and CFVS. The shutdown of CKRN left Ici Radio-Canada Télé without an over-the-air outlet in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.