Editing CFCF-DT (section)

===Canwest Global and Videotron (1992–1997)===
Financial relief came to the company in the 1990s with an investment from [[Canwest Global Communications]]. In return, CFCF did not stand in the way of Canwest's plans to apply for a Global repeater station in Montreal. However, Canwest Global changed its mind, citing tax problems. It did, however, allow CFCF to carry some Global programs; it was already airing some programming from [[Citytv]]. This would not be the end of Global's influence at the station.

In 1997, [[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]] sold controlling interest in CKMI to Canwest. The two companies announced plans to turn CKMI into a Global station, along with a CKMI repeater in Montreal and a large studio complex in Montreal. Pouliot was scared by the prospect of new competition and decided to get out. He initially planned to sell CFCF to Vidéotron. However, Vidéotron also owned TVA, which retained a 49 percent stake in CKMI. This would have resulted in one company having a significant stake in all of the private stations in Montreal – CFCF, CKMI, CFJP and TVA flagship [[CFTM-TV]].

Vidéotron knew that the CRTC would never approve such an arrangement, so it sold CFCF to [[Western International Communications]] (WIC), who also owned [[CHAN-TV]] and [[CHEK-TV]] in [[British Columbia]], [[CHCH-TV]] in [[Ontario]] and several stations in [[Alberta]]. Over the next few years, CFCF cut back its carriage of CTV programming to little more than the base schedule of 40 hours per week. This was due to longstanding tensions between WIC and CTV (stemming from similar issues to those raised by CFCF, in that they felt CFTO and Baton had too much influence over the network); the station filled out the rest of their schedule with WIC's own library of programming. This didn't pose a problem at first, since Ottawa's CJOH was available on cable in Montreal for most of the 1980s and 1990s; CJOH operates a repeater in [[Cornwall, Ontario]] whose footprint reaches Montreal. Meanwhile, TQS was sold to [[Quebecor]], and later to [[Cogeco]] and Bell Globemedia (which later became CTVglobemedia and is now known as Bell Media).

Before 1997, when CHCH and CITY launched rebroadcast transmitters in the Ottawa region, local cable companies there carried CFCF as well. Because CHCH and CFCF were sharing some programs, CFCF was removed from these systems, except for [[Rogers Cable]]. Also around this time, CJOH was dropped from Montreal cable systems after its owner, Baton, bought controlling interest in CTV.