This week in Canadian media history: The birth of CTV Montreal
The Canadian Marconi Company's television station CFCF-12 (Canada's First, Canada's Finest) started broadcasting from Montreal on Jan. 20, 1961, after receiving its English-language television licence. Months later on Oct. 1, CFCF-12 became an affiliate of the CTV Network, which had just launched. Today, the station is known as CTV Montreal.
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Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.