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| Branding | ICI Télévision |
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| History | |
First air date | December 11, 2013 |
Former call signs | CFHG-DT (2013, pre-launch) |
Former channel number(s) | Digital: 47 (UHF, 2013–2020) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 4.03 kW |
| HAAT | 192.5 m (632 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′10.7″N 73°35′48.1″W / 45.502972°N 73.596694°W |
| Links | |
| Website | ICI Montreal |
CFHD-DT (channel 47) is an independent multicultural television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, owned by Sam Norouzi and his family. The station's studios are located on Christophe Colomb Avenue in Montreal's Ahuntsic district, at the home of the family's production company Mi-Cam Communications.[1] Its transmitter is located at Mount Royal Park, near Downtown Montreal.
CFHD-DT, which operates under the branding ICI Télévision (a bilingual abbreviation of "International Channel/Canal International"), is a de facto successor to CJNT; the station had started as a multicultural station, but its ethnic output decreased significantly in favor of commercial, English-language programming after it was sold to Western International Communications (WIC), and in turn, Canwest and Channel Zero. ICI was announced in parallel with a proposal by Rogers Media to purchase CJNT (which had since affiliated with its Citytv network) and change its license to make it a conventional, English language station. Both Rogers and Channel Zero also planned to provide resources to the new channel. As part of Omni Regional—a distribution of Omni Television stations as a must-carry specialty channel, the network is fed province-wide as ICI Québec.