TVOntario - Distribution

Distribution

See also: List of historical TVOntario transmitters

TVO is Canada's oldest educational television service. It established the country's first UHF television channel in 1970 at Toronto. TVO used to have the largest over-the-air coverage in Ontario reaching 98.5% of Ontario with 216 transmitters however this is no longer the case as the broadcaster shuttered analog over-the-air service and only replaced select markets with digital replacements (see Digital television and high definition below). TVO is also broadcast on the Bell TV satellite service on channel 265, and on the Shaw Direct satellite service on channel 353 and various cablesystems servicing Ontario (the alternative choice for those viewers in shuttered analog service areas).

TVO rebroadcast transmitters have the call letters CICA and CICO, followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters. As a result of the analog transmitters being shut down on July 31, 2012, all transmitters with the call sign CICE have been all shut down.

TVO's transmitters are in Ontario, with one exception — its Ottawa transmitter, CICO-DT-24, is based at the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Chelsea, Quebec, where it shares its site with its Quebec counterpart, Télé-Québec, and with most of the region's television and FM radio signals.

TVO, throughout the 70s 80s and 90s, would have top-of-the-hour bumpers where a voice would mention their home channel on Toronto, plus one other channel number for a transmitter; "This is TVOntario. Channel 19 in Toronto, channel XX in (city or town)."

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