CJIL-DT

CJIL-DT
CJIL-DT
CJIL-TV logo
Lethbridge, Alberta
Branding The Miracle Channel
Slogan Refreshing TV
Channels Digital: 17 (UHF))
Virtual: 17.1 (PSIP)
Translators see below
Affiliations independent
Owner The Miracle Channel Association
First air date January 14, 1996
Call letters' meaning Christ Jesus Is Lord
Former callsigns CJIL-TV (1996-2011)
Former channel number(s) 17 (Analog, 1996-2011)
Transmitter power 8.6 kW
Height 133.5 m
Transmitter coordinates 49°46′47″N 112°52′18″W / 49.77972°N 112.87167°W / 49.77972; -112.87167
Website The Miracle Channel

CJIL-DT is a Canadian English-language Christian-based television station licensed to and based in Lethbridge, Alberta. CJIL-DT uses the on-air name The Miracle Channel. It was the first over-the-air religious TV station in Canada.

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History

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted CJIL-TV's broadcasting licence to founders Dick and Joan Dewert (also known as Dick and Joan Deweert) on April 4, 1995. It debuted on January 14, 1996 broadcasting in southern Alberta, after Canada's sixty-year ban on religious broadcasting was lifted. It expanded nationally on September 11, 2000. CJIL is the Canadian partner of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and shares their Canadian-produced programming with that organization. (The Dewerts had set up a pirate translator for TBN in 1986, which was shut down by the CRTC before CJIL's license was granted.) The station is available globally via satellite and on the Internet.

On May 20, 2007, Dick and Joan Dewert resigned from the station due to an extra-marital relationship.[1][2] Mervyn Mediwake was installed as the interim CEO.[3] On January 1st, 2010, after a series of interim leaders, the board of directors of the Miracle Channel Association hired Leon Fontaine as permanent CEO. [4]

Over-the-air in Alberta

In 2007, CJIL filed an application with the CRTC for a licence to operate English-language transitional digital television programming undertakings in Calgary (Channel 15) and Edmonton (Channel 21). If approved, these transmitters would have simply rebroadcast the original CJIL schedule in its entirety. The applications were denied, however, in favour of a competing application from the Crossroads Television System.

As part of spectrum re-allocation, full-power over-the-air transmitters on channels 52-69 must vacate those channels, but may move to a channel below 52. CJIL's Burmis transmitter is affected by this change. In filings to the CRTC, CJIL has stated that it plans on shutting down this transmitter.

Criticism

The Miracle Channel Review, a Christian-run website unaffiliated with the network, has been critical of the Dewerts and other personalities over the prosperity gospel message they have preached during CJIL's fundraising telethons. The Miracle Channel Review 's webmaster, Tim Thibault, issued formal complaints with the CRTC over improper statements made during CJIL's telethons; the CRTC ruled in 2006 that the fundraising cited by Thibault violated federal guidelines[5]. CJIL has since claimed to have revised its fundraising policies. Thibault's criticism of CJIL became the subject of an investigative report about the station's financial practices on CBC News at Six[6].

Transmitters

Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates
CJIL-TV-1 Bow Island 39 (UHF) 13.86 kW 112 m 49°47′8″N 111°19′29″W / 49.78556°N 111.32472°W / 49.78556; -111.32472 (CJIL-TV-1)
CJIL-TV-2 Burmis 55 (UHF) 1.9 kW 163.3 m 49°33′14″N 114°10′41″W / 49.55389°N 114.17806°W / 49.55389; -114.17806 (CJIL-TV-2)

References

  1. ^ "Miracle Channel founder resigns", CBC News, May 22, 2007
  2. ^ Myers, Sean. "Christian TV head resigns over affair", Calgary Herald, May 23, 2007.
  3. ^ "Miracle TV to go on without founder, says new head" CBC News, May 23, 2007
  4. ^ "Leon Fontaine appointed CEO of Miracle Channel" Christian Week, December 22nd, 2009
  5. ^ CRTC Miracle Channel judgment, 3 January, 2006
  6. ^ Miracle Channel (CJIL TV) Expose - CBC News - Part 1 - November 2006

External links

v · d · eBroadcast television in Alberta
CalgaryDTV

CICT (2.1 Global) • CFCN (4.1 CTV) • CKAL (5.1 Citytv) • CBRT (9.1 CBC) • CBRFT 16Analog (Radio-Canada) • CKCS (32.1 CTS) • CJCO (38.1 Omni)
EdmontonDTV

CFRN (3.1 CTV) • CBXT (5.1 CBC) • CBXFT (11.1 Radio-Canada) • CITV (13.1 Global) • CKEM (17.1 Citytv) • CKES (30.1 CTS) • CJEO (56.1 Omni)
Other areas
CHOB 43 (Ind)
CISA (7.1 Global) • CFCN-DT-5 (12.1 CTV) • CJIL (17.1 Religious Ind) • CKAL-DT-1 (42.1 Citytv)
CKSA (2.1 CBC) • CITL (4.1 CTV)
CFRN-TV-6 8 (CTV) • CBXT-13 22 (CBC) • CITV-TV-1 10 (Global) • CKEM-TV-1 4 (Citytv)
Cable-only
Defunct stations
CIAN 13/CJAL 9 (Edu. Ind / CTV Two)1

1Over the air transmissions ceased on August 31, 2011; available on cable and satellite only
v · d · eIndependent television stations in Canada
Conventional
CHEK Victoria • CJIL Lethbridge • CHCH Hamilton • CFTU Montreal • CJNT Montreal • CJON St. John's
Community
See also
v · d · eMaple Leaf (from roundel).svg  Religious television channels in Canada
CTS
CITS Burlington • CKCS Calgary • CKES Edmonton
Joytv
Other
CFEG Abbotsford • CFSO Cardston • CJIL Lethbridge
Cable
Foreign channels available in Canada
EWTN (USA)

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