Broadcast Center

Kamloops Radio Station, Kamloops TV Station, TV in Kamloops, Radio in Kamloops

CFJC-TV, B100, CIFM

Broadcast Center - Background

Broadcast Center is part of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Limited Partnership, which is Canada’s largest private western-based broadcasting company. Based in Kamloops, the company operates 32 radio and TV stations throughout BC and Alberta, including several in Kamloops (below). The President of the company is long-time local broadcaster Rick Arnish, who I recall used to call the numbers for CFJC TV's TV Bingo in the early seventies. Arnish has been with the company since 1969, and now leads an organization that has grown both organically and through acquisitions to employ almost 500 people (as of March 2007).

The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group purchased the assets of Inland Broadcasters and Twin Cities Radio - which included CIFM and CFJC-TV - in 1987 from  D.S. Clark, J.W.R. Pollard, and Diane Edgell. The move was opposed by Vancouver Co-operative Radio, which intervened at CRTC hearings on the basis the Kamloops and other communities served by stations would be better served if ownership of the FM stations remained local. Nevertheless the move was approved, and the stations are managed locally, if not owned locally.

CRTC records indicate that the group is jointly owned by Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Ltd. and Jim Pattison Industries Ltd., which in return is owned 100% by Jim Pattison Ltd., which is itself owned 100% by James A. Pattison. The breakdown of ownership positions in Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Limited Partnership are as follows:

  • Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Ltd. owns a 0.01% position directly
  • Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. owns a 99.99% position directly, and the remainder indirectly via its ownership of Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Ltd. (as above)

Pattison President: Rick Arnish, rarnish@cfjctv.com

Executive Team:

  • Executive Assistant: Loretta Lewis
  • Vice President, Finance: Bill Dinicol, bdinicol@98.3cifm.com
  • Vice President, Sales: Bruce Davis
  • Technical Director: Joel Simmons

Web: http://www.jpbroadcast.com

Common contact information for all stations (all telephone area codes - 250):

CFJC TV - Channel 7

  • Personalities:
    • Doug Collins (as above)
    • Anchor/Producer, Midday & Evening News: Bill O'Donovan
    • Sandy Heimlich-Hall (as above)
    • Sports: Earl Seitz
    • Anchor: Raffelina Sirianni
    • Reporter: Tim Peeling
    • Host, Midday Show: Larry Read
  • Other:
    • Producer: Robert Kovac
    • Traffic Clerk: Shirley Hessel
    • Creative writer: Janice L. Cochran
  • Web: http://www.cfjctv.com
  • This past October (2007), the Kamloops Daily News and CFJC TV 7 jointly won the Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting for Seeing Red: The Pine Beetle Epidemic. Recognized contributors from CFJC TV 7 included: Sandy Heimlich-Hall, Bill O'Donovan, Doug Collins, Tim Peeling, Susan Edgell, Kyle Donaldson, Jason Trout, Kent Simmonds, Tom Konopski, Marcel Chelkowski. The Jack Webster Awards recognize "Excellence in British Columbia Journalism".

B100 - 100.1 FM

  • Personalities
    • Maggie Cox
    • Good Morning Kamloops: Cheryl & Steve
    • Brad Smart
    • Midday: Rick Chapman, 571-2100
    • Afternoons: Dan Earl
  • DJ Line: 571-2100
  • Web: http://www.b100.ca, info@b100.ca

CIFM - 98.3 FM



Other Jim Pattison Broadcast Group properties include:

  • POWER 104 FM, CKLZ-FM - 104.7 Kelowna
  • CKOV 63, CKOV-AM - CKOV63 Kelowna
  • CKPG 550 AM, CKDV-FM - 99.3 Prince George
  • HITS 101.3 FM, CKKN-FM - 101.3 Prince George
  • PG TV, CKPG-TV - PGTV Prince George (CBC affiliate)
  • JR COUNTRY 93.7 FM - CJJR-FM Vancouver
  • 600 AM - CKBD-AM Vancouver
  • CHDR 102.9 FM - CHDR-FM The Kootenay’s
  • CHBZ 104.7 FM - CHBZ-FM Cranbrook
  • CJDR 99.1 FM - CJDR-FM Fernie and Sparwood
  • CHAT1270 AM - CHAT-FM Medicine Hat
  • MY 96 FM - CFMY-FM Medicine Hat
  • CHAT TV 3 - CHAT-TV - CHAT 6 & 3 Medicine Hat (CBC affiliate)
  • 93.1 XXFM - CJXX-FM Northwestern Alberta and Northeastern B.C.
  • CHLB 95.5 FM - CHLB-FM Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta
  • CJBZ-FM - 93.3 FM Lethbridge
  • CHUB 105.5 FM - CHUB-FM Red Deer
  • CFDV 106.7 FM - CFDV Red Deer
  • CIBW/CHBW 92.9 FM - CIBW / CHBW-FM  Drayton Valley and Rocky Mountain House
  • CKWV 102.3 FM - CKWV-FM Nanaimo
  • CHWF 106.9 FM - CHWF-FM Nanaimo and Central Vancouver Island
  • CIBH 88.5 FM - CIBH-FM Parksville and Qualicum Beach
  • CHPQ 99.9 FM - CHPQ-FM Oceanside
  • CKLR 97.3 FM - CKLR-FM Courtenay, Comox, Campbell River, North-Central Vancouver Island
  • CKLR 97.3 FM - CJAV-FM Port Alberni
  • CKLR 97.3 FM - CKKQ-FM The Q!, Victoria and Vancouver Island
  • CKLR 97.3 FM - CJZN-FM -Victoria

Transcanada_bc3_2For information on other media in Kamloops, visit the Kamloops Media page. Please contact me with any additional details about local media.

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