CFCL-TV
| City | Timmins, Ontario |
|---|---|
| Branding | MCTV - CBC |
| Channels |
Analog: 6 (VHF) also heard on 87.7 MHz on the FM broadcast band |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner |
J. Conrad Lavigne (1956 - 1980) Mid-Canada Communications (1980 - 1990) Baton Broadcasting/CTV Inc. (1990 - 2002) |
| First air date | June 21, 1956 |
| Last air date | October 27, 2002 |
| Call letters' meaning | CF Conrad Lavigne (original owner) |
| Sister station(s) | CITO-TV |
| Transmitter power | 100 kW |
| Height | 174.6 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 48°32′49″N 80°57′9″W / 48.54694°N 80.95250°W |
CFCL-TV was a television station in Timmins, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1956 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.
The station was established on June 21, 1956 by J. Conrad Lavigne. It was originally established as a bilingual private affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English and French television networks. It aired on channel 6.
The station added a rebroadcast transmitter in Kapuskasing in 1957. Lavigne subsequently added rebroadcasters in several communities in Northern Ontario and Western Quebec; by 1965, CFCL had the largest privately owned microwave transmission network in the world. CFCL remained a dual affiliate until the mid-1960s, when CBOFT added a transmitter in Timmins, CBFOT (later becoming CBLFT-3).
In 1971, Lavigne opened new CBC stations in Sudbury (CKNC) and North Bay (CHNB). The existing CBC stations in those cities became CTV affiliates; their owner also extended its Sudbury signal to Timmins via transmitter CKSO-TV-2, later standalone station CITO.
Until 1980, CFCL and CKSO-2 aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Timmins market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in North Bay and Sudbury, into the MCTV twinstick.
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