Editing CFTM-DT (section)

==History==
[[Image:CFTM-TV 1969 logo.jpg|thumb|left|100px|CFTM-TV's third logo used from 1969 until 1978, as "CFTM 10".]]
It opened on February 19, 1961, a few weeks after [[CFCF-TV]] went on the air for the first time. It was owned by Joseph Alexandre de Sève and his company, {{lang|fr|italic=no|Télé-Métropole}}. At first it relied primarily on [[kinescope]]s from [[RTL Group|RTL]], and also from [[Télé Monte Carlo]], but it wasn't long before it settled into a more peculiar and local form. On April 14, 1963, CFTM started sharing programs with [[CJPM-TV]] in [[Chicoutimi]] (now [[Saguenay, Quebec|Saguenay]]) in the [[Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]] region on the day the latter station signed on. They were joined by [[CFCM-TV]] in [[Quebec City]] in 1964. This was the informal beginning of TVA, though the network wasn't officially established until September 12, 1971. When de Sève died in 1968, the city government renamed the street in front of CFTM's studios {{lang|fr|rue Alexandre de Sève}} in his honour.

CFTM has always been by far the largest station in the TVA network. As such, it dominated the network long before Télé-Métropole bought majority control of TVA in 1990. At one point, CFTM produced as much as 90 percent of TVA's programming. Even today, TVA's network feed is little more than a retransmission of CFTM. Whenever CFTM has to interrupt its programming for breaking news or weather alerts in Montreal, the entire network usually gets interrupted as well.

CFTM-TV was essentially available on satellite beginning November 1, 1981, as "TCTV", carried via [[Cancom]] by cable television operators across Canada, though not in most major cities. TCTV carried mainly the same programs as CFTM, but with some local news and programming from other TVA affiliates.

The TCTV service ended when the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) approved TVA for a national network license in 1998. Since May 1, 1999, all Canadian cable companies have been required to carry a TVA station. CFTM is the affiliate carried in most markets outside of Quebec—excepting some markets in [[Northern Ontario]], [[Eastern Ontario]] and [[New Brunswick]], which have long carried the stations in adjacent markets. The station also provides a time-shifted feed for cable companies in western Canada, delayed three hours after the original broadcast, matching up with [[Pacific Time]].

In May 2025, CFTM moved to the ''[[Journal de Montreal]]'' building on Rue Frontenac, which it shares with [[Qub Radio]] and the TVA network.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 4, 2025 |title=Une page se tourne: TVA emménage dans ses nouveaux locaux et quitte le mythique 1600, boulevard de Maisonneuve |url=https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2025/05/04/une-page-se-tourne-tva-emmenage-dans-ses-nouveaux-locaux-et-quitte-le-mythique-1600-boulevard-de-maisonneuve |language=fr |access-date=May 5, 2025 |website=TVA Nouvelles}}</ref>