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CFPL-DT, VHF channel 10, is a CTV Two owned-and-operated television station located in London, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Bell Media. CFPL's studios are located on Communications Road on the southwestern side of London, and its transmitter is located on Tower Road in South Bruce. This station can also be seen on Rogers Cable channel 9 and digital channel 137. The station serves London, Sarnia and much of southwestern Ontario north of London, including the city of Wingham since its former sister station CKNX-TV ceased operations and became a rebroadcaster of CFPL in 2009. ==History== CFPL was founded by Walter J. Blackburn, who also owned London's major newspaper, the ''London Free Press'', as well as radio station CFPL on both the AM and FM dials. The television station first came on the air on November 28, 1953, with four hours of programming per day. That night, there was a major fire in London, on which CFPL's news program was able to report almost immediately during its first news hour. The station's transmitter was originally located atop the 500 foot CFPL Television Tower, which was completed that year. CFPL was the second privately owned station in Canada (CKSO-TV in Sudbury, now CICI-TV, was the first). Its news program was the first to be scheduled at 6:00 p.m., during "the supper hour", which set the standard for other stations in Canada. In 1973, the station expanded its supper-hour news to a full hour. CFPL also later became one of the first in Canada to broadcast in colour. From the day it began broadcasting, CFPL was affiliated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1961, CFPL-TV began transmitting its signal from a 314 metre/1030 foot tall guyed tower located in London, which is one of the oldest supertall television towers in Canada. In 1964, it became the CBC affiliate for Kitchener as well after CKCO-TV switched to CTV. CFPL was the CBC's largest private affiliate, but wanted to produce and broadcast more local programming. This caused its relations with CBC to worsen over the years. CBC required affiliates like CFPL to carry a minimum amount of its schedule, and, according to station management, CBC programming was less lucrative by that time. Nonetheless, CFPL was a very successful station, and posted good profits. It finally disaffiliated with CBC and went independent on September 4, 1988. CFPL's slogan following disaffiliation was "The fun is here!", but the slogan did not last. With no CBC programming, such as ''The National'' and ''Hockey Night in Canada'' to attract viewers, ratings plummeted and so did revenues. By the end of 1989, the station was almost bankrupt, but tried to hang on as an independent station for another few years, even though its programming schedule did not have much beyond news to attract viewership. In 1992, amid poor ratings and low revenues, the station was sold to Baton Broadcasting. In 1994 the various Baton stations, including CFPL, merged to form first "Ontario Network Television", then renamed Baton Broadcasting System. Baton greatly increased CFPL's news department, hiring dozens of people and rebranding the newscast as ''News Now''.〔 〕 While Baton focused much of energy on news programming, it cut much non-news local programming from many stations, including CFPL. The long-time lifestyles program ''One O'Clock Live'' was cancelled in early 1997, for example. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CFPL-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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