CJSS-TV

CJSS-TV
(defunct)

City	Cornwall, Ontario
Channels	Analog: 8 (VHF)
Programming
Affiliations	CBC
Ownership
Owner	Stanley Shenkman
History
First air date	October 18, 1959 (1959-10-18)
Last air date	1963 (1963)
Call sign meaning	C J Stanley Shenkman

CJSS-TV was a television station in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. In operation from 1959 to 1963 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, the station was later converted to a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CJOH-TV.

The station originally signed on as a CBC Television affiliate on October 18, 1959, owned by Toronto architect Stanley Shenkman[1]. Shenkman also acquired the radio stations CKSF and CKSF-FM, which both adopted the CJSS call sign as well.

In 1963, CJSS was acquired by Ernie Bushnell and converted into a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's CTV affiliate CJOH, making CJSS the first TV station in Canada ever to cease operations as its own station and become a repeater for another. After many years of use to rimshot the Montréal market, Bell Media took the station permanently dark in 2017. The radio stations were sold to a local family, and subsequently broadcast as part of Corus Entertainment. Of these stations, 1220 AM (as CJUL) left the air August 18, 2010 leaving just CJSS-FM retaining the original call sign.

Former CJOH/CJSS transmitter in Lancaster, Ontario, near the Quebec border.

External links

• The Brisson Brothers star on their own TV series "The Town & Country Show" on CJSS-TV in Cornwall, (Ottawa Country Music Hall of Fame, 1994).
• 237 Water Street East, former home of CJSS radio; in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this building served as the studios for short-lived CJSS-TV 8.
• CJSS-TV at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation