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List of Cable TV Montreal channels (1979)
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Parent Page: List of Retro Cable lineups in Canada
Cable TV Montreal customers in Montreal, Quebec had channels to the channels listed below in 1979. Today, Montreal is serviced by a number of different providers, including Vidéotron and VMedia, among others.
Legend
- CALL — The call letters of an over-the-air television station in bold text.
- CABLE — Cable channels in regular text.
- ## — Over-the-air channel number for stations within the Montreal television market, according to current laws by the CRTC. Also, some stations may service areas outside of the television market as well.
- ## — Over-the-air channel number for distant out-of-market stations, including regional and national "superstations", according to current laws by the CRTC.
- Network affiliated stations will have the network's logo (of the corresponding era) next to them and independent stations are unmarked.
Market
The Montreal television services 25 counties and municipalities -- which will be referred to as "regions" -- in Quebec:
- Regions: Argenteuil, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Deux-Montagnes, Joliette, La Riviére-du-Nord, La Vallée-du-Richelieu, L'Assomption, Laval, Le Haut-Richelieu, Le Haut-Saint-Laurent, Les Jardins-de-Napierville, Les Laurentides, Les Moulins, Les Pays-d'en-Haut, Longueuil, Marguerite-D'Youville, Matawinie, Mirabel, Montcalm, Montréal, Papineau, Roussillon, Rouville, Thérèse-De Blainville and Vaudreuil-Soulanges
- Cities: Amherst, Angéline, Aubrey, Barrière-Caribou, Barrington, Beaconsfield, Beloeil, Boucherville, Brébuef, Brookdale, Brossard, Browsnburg, Burtonville, Calixa-Lavallée, Candiac, Carignan, Cazaville, Chambly, Charlemagne, Chénéville, Chertsey, Coin-Douglas, Coin-Lavigne, Contrecoeur, Côte-d'en-Bas, Crabtree, Delson, Dewittville, Domaine-Asselin, Domaine-Beaudry, Domaine-des-Deux-Lacs, Domaines-Joyeux, Dorval, Duhamel, Grande-Ligne, Grenville, Grenville Bay, Haut-de-la-Côte, Havelock, Hemmingford, Henryville, Herdman, Hinchinbrooke, Howick, Huberdeau, Hudson, Iberville-Junction, Joliette, Kierkoski, La Barrière, La Glacière, La Petite-Barbue, La Prairie, La Saline, Lac-Tire, Lacolle, Lachute, Landreville, L'Assomption, Laval, L'Epiphanie, Les Hurons, Longueuil, Magenta, Maisons-de-Cèdre, Marieville, McMasterville, Ménard, Montreal, Montreal West, Montréal-Est, Mont-Blanc, Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Mont-Tremblant, Napierville, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Odelltown, Ormstown, Otterburn Park, Papineauville, Pointe-à-Neuf-Pas, Pointe-Lalonde, Pointe-McGinnis, Prévost, Rawdon, Richelieu, Rivière-Beaudette, Repentigny, Rigaud, Ripon, Rockburn, Rodgerdale, Rosemère, Rougemont, Roxham, Russeltown Flats, Sabrevois, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir, Sainte Brigide-d'Iberville, Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Sainte-Julie, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Saint-Édouard, Saint-Césaire, Saint-Charles-Borromée, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Guillame-Nord, Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford, Saint-Rémi, Saint-Sébastien, Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Valentin, Saint-Zénon, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Sherrington, Thurso, Val-David, Val-des-Bois, Varennes, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Venise-en-Québec, Verchères, Versailles, Village de Labelle, Westmount and White Deer
Lineup
Basic Lineup
CH# | Name | Notes/Today |
---|---|---|
2 | Météo/Weather | Weather information in English and French, predating both The Weather Network and MétéoMédia by eleven years |
3 | 3 WCAX-TV Burlington, VT, USA | Then and now, still a CBS affiliate (Co-owned alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate 40 WYCI (out of Saranac Lake, New York) by Gray Television) |
4 | 2 CBFT Montreal | Radio-Canada's flagship and the oldest television station in Canada, now as CBFT-DT (Co-owned alongside CBC network owned-and-operated station 6 CBMT-DT by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) |
5 | 5 WPTZ North Pole-Plattsburgh, NY, USA | Then and now, still an NBC affiliate, licensed transferred exclusively to the city of Plattsburgh in 2011 (Co-owned alongside CW+ affiliate and former semi-satellite 31 WNNE (out of Montpelier, Vermont) by Hearst Television) |
6 | 33 WETK Burlington, VT, USA | Then and now, still a PBS member station (Also the flagship of Vermont Public, a network of PBS and NPR television and radio stations covering the state of Vermont) |
7 | 10 CFTM Montreal | Then and now, still TVA's network flagship (now as CFTM-DT), owned by Quebecor Media |
8 | 17 CIVM Montreal | Co-flagship of Radio-Québec, now known as Télé-Québec (now as CIVM-DT), alongside 15 CIVQ (now as CIVQ-DT) out of Quebec City (Both the network and the stations are publicly funded and owned and operated by the Government of Quebec) |
9 | Community Television | Defunct, also known in French as "Télé-Communautaire", replaced by bilingual English-French MAtv |
10 | National Assembly | Provincial legislative affairs (French name: L'Assemblée Nationale du Québec) |
11 | 12 CFCF Montreal | Then and now, still a CTV network owned-and-operated station (now as CFCF-DT) (Co-owned alongside Noovo network flagship 35 CFJP-DT by Bell Media) |
12 | House of Commons | Parliamentary affairs involving the House of Commons of Canada (French name: Chambre des Communes du Canada) |
13 | 6 CBMT Montreal | Then and now, still a CBC network owned-and-operated station (now as CBMT-DT) (Co-owned alongside Ici Radio-Canada Télé network flagship 2 CBFT-DT by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) |
Expanded Service
- NOTE: A converter box was required to access these channels in 1979.
CH# | Name | Notes/Today |
---|---|---|
A-14 | Local Origination | Defunct, a local cable access channel |
B-15 | Educational Access | Status unknown, a local cable access channel with educational and instructional programming |
C-16 | TVFQ 99 | Defunct, a local cable channel, replaced by TV5 Québec Canada |
D-17 | 22 WEZF Burlington, VT, USA | Then and now, still an ABC affiliate (now as WVNY) (Owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar Media Group, owners of Fox affiliate 44 WFFF-TV) |
E-18 | 7 CHLT Sherbrooke | Still a TVA network owned-and-operated station (now as CHLT-DT), owned by Quebecor Media |
F-19 | 8 WMTW Poland Spring-Portland, ME, USA | Then and now, still an ABC affiliate (Co-owned alongside CW affiliate 51 WPXT by Hearst Television) |
G-20 | 24 CICO-TV-24 Ottawa, ON | A rebroadcaster of TVOntario flagship station 19 CICA (now as CICO-DT-24 and CICA-DT respectively) (Both the network and the stations are publicly funded and owned and operated by the Government of Ontario) |
H-21 | 9 CKSH-TV Sherbrooke | Then and now, still an Ici Radio-Canada Télé network affiliate (now as CKSH-DT) (Network owned-and-operated since 2008, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) |
I-22 | 8 CJSS-TV Cornwall, Ontario | Defunct, analog rebroadcaster of CTV owned-and-operated 13 CJOH-DT out of Ottawa (Taken off the air permanently by network and station owner Bell Media in 2017) |
J-23 | 33 WETK Burlington, VT, USA | Then and now, still a PBS member station (Also the flagship of Vermont Public, a network of PBS and NPR television and radio stations covering the state of Vermont) |
K-24 | Météo/Weather | Weather information in English and French, predating both The Weather Network and MétéoMédia by eleven years |
L-25 | Local Origination | Defunct, a local cable access channel |