I was interested to see that on Wednesday, the CRTC officially revoked the licence of a TV station most of us have never heard of. But there was something unusual about CJBN in Kenora, Ontario - it was the smallest market in Canada to ever have its own television outlet, it only put out a signal of 178 watts, making it the lowest powered officially licenced TV station in all of North America – and because of its size, it was one of the few left that never converted to digital, remaining in an analog mode until it went off the air at the end of January.
 
Channel 13 was a longtime Shaw outlet, using Global programming to fill its time and never had a real news team or even that many staffers (although it did air a two minute update every day, a bizarre sample of which you can see below.) According to an article from last December in the Kenora Daily Miner And News, (obviously a must read newspaper!) it only employed five people and only produced two shows, one of which was called “Fishing With Gussy.”
 
Poor Gussy. I’m guessing he (or she?) is now casting a net for a new gig.
 
Anyway, just a small footnote and a curious anomaly to the big changes that have surrounded its bigger brethren in the broadcasting industry.



 

Last edited by RadioActive (February 22, 2017 12:59 pm)