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CFMT-DT, UHF channel 47, is a Omni Television owned-and-operated television station located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that serves the flagship station of the network. The station is owned by Rogers Media, a division of Rogers Communications (through its Rogers Broadcasting Limited division), as part of a triplestick (the only conventional television triplestick operated by the company) with fellow Omni owned-and-operated station CJMT-DT (channel 40) and City flagship owned-and-operated station CITY-DT (channel 57). All three stations share studio facilities located at Yonge-Dundas Square on 33 Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto; CFMT maintains transmitter facilities located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto. On cable, the station is available on corporate sister Rogers Cable channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 520; on satellite, the station is also available on Bell TV channel 215 and in high definition on channel 1055. ==History== In December 1978, Dan Iannuzzi, founder of the Italian language daily newspaper ''Corriere Canadese'' and future recipient of the Order of Canada, received a licence to operate a multilingual television station, defeating rival applicants Johnny Lombardi and Leon Kossar. His company, Multilingual Television (Toronto) Ltd., had been producing multilingual television programs since 1972.〔"Ethnic TV: A Tower of Babel?," Robert Stephens, ''Toronto Star'', June 4, 1979, p. C9,〕 Iannuzzi initially owned 30% of the station, and other investors included Jerry Grafstein (who was also one of the major investors that helped launch CITY-TV (channel 79, now on channel 57) in September 1972), Raymond Moriyama, Steve Stavro, Garth Drabinsky and Nat Taylor.〔 The call letters CFMT were derived from "Canada's First Multilingual Television." English language programming was limited to one-third of the station's broadcast hours, with French language programming accounting for 7% and programming in about two dozen other languages providing the remaining 60%.〔 The station was originally going to broadcast on UHF channel 45, but instead moved to channel 47 for technical reasons. The station first signed on the air on September 3, 1979, CFMT began broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as a multicultural independent station under the brand name "MTV" (for "Multilingual Television"); that branding was dropped in 1981 to avoid confusion with the upstart American MTV cable network. (The channel even broadcast a program called ''Video Singles'', as of 1983.) In August 1980, introduced ''The All-Night Show'' three weeks later. In 1985, CFMT became the first television station in Canada to broadcast in stereo. The following year, the station was sold to Rogers Communications. In 1993, CFMT installed rebroadcasters in London and Ottawa, respectively broadcasting on UHF channels 69 and 60. Under Rogers ownership, the station targeted English-speaking viewers at times that other stations did not aggressively target viewers. In the past, CFMT-TV has identified itself on air as "Channel 47/Cable 4" (reflecting both its over-the-air channel number and its channel position in the Greater Toronto Area through Rogers Cable) and as "CFMT International". In September 16, 2002, Rogers launched CJMT (channel 40; which was branded as "OMNI.2") to provide additional multicultural programming, and rebranded CFMT as "OMNI.1". Programs airing on CFMT that were aimed at Asian and African communities were moved to CJMT, while CFMT kept programs aimed at European and Latin American groups. In October 8, 2007, Rogers announced that the operations of the OMNI stations would relocate from 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West to 33 Dundas Street East.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Development Fact Sheet )〕 CFMT and CJMT integrated their operations into the building – which it shares with City flagship CITY-DT, which moved into the facility the previous month – on October 19, 2009. 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「CFMT-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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