CFMT-TV : Ask Biography

Broadcast information

Call letters

CFMT-TV

City of license

Toronto, Ontario

Branding

OMNI.1

Slogan

Diversity television

Analog

47 (UHF)

Digital

64 (UHF)
Virtual: 47.1 (PSIP)

Translators

see below

Affiliations

OMNI Television

Owner

Rogers Communications

Licensee

Rogers Broadcasting Ltd.

First air date

September 3, 1979

Call letters' meaning

Canada's
First
Multilingual
Television

Sister stations

TV: CITY, CJMT
Radio: CFTR, CHFI, CJCL, CKIS

Former affiliations

Independent (1979-2002)

Transmitter Power

1138 kW (analog)
15 kW (digital)

Height

501.4 m (analog)
314.3 m (digital)

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CFMT-TV, channel 47, is a television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with rebroadcasters in Ottawa and London. The station broadcasts multicultural programming targeting European and Latin American communities throughout Southern Ontario. Part of the Omni Television group of stations owned by Rogers Media, it uses the on-air brand OMNI.1. Sister company Rogers Cable carries OMNI.1 on cable channel 4 in the Greater Toronto Area.

Among English-speaking television viewers in Southern Ontario, CFMT is likely best known as home to various English language syndicated talk shows and sitcom repeats, including The Simpsons, Friends, and Family Guy, airing nightly as counterprogramming to local newscasts and first-run primetime series on the major networks.