1957
CFCR-TV went on the air on April 8th, on channel 4 with 4,000 watts of power.  The station was an affiliate of the CBC Network using film and kinescope, with a one-camera, small-studio operation giving live news and sports.

Ian Clark

The station was owned by Ian Clark’s CFJC Radio.  The staff from that station pitched in to help make the new "baby" work.  As an example, even before the TV station was on the air, Ian Clark's secretary, Jean Ross, started taking 16 mm film of events in the area.  If there was a news-worthy story, they would send the film to CBC in Vancouver.  Hockey was a dominant sport in the area, with the local team reaching the Memorial Cup, so   sending sports and news stories to CBC became a regular occurrence.  One story, the last sailing of the steamer "Lady Minto" on the Arrow Lakes, not only made it to the full CBC Network but also was carried on the full CBS Network in the U.S.  These news clips carried no sound, so the script went along with the raw film.

During the first year, the station was on the air 8 hours daily, with network via kinescope film, with the Saturday Night Hockey and other shows such as Bonanza and Don Messer running a week late.  Local productions included a daily newscast, "Agriculture Today" and "Let’s Visit Awhile", which was on the air for 21 years.

1960s
Co-operation played a large role in the expansion of CFJC’s signal which was unique.  Perhaps no other area in the world had TV like central British Columbia.  Communities on the fringe of the main station’s coverage approached  CFJC-TV for them to increase power so their residents could also enjoy TV.  CFJC-TV just could not afford it and the mountainous terrain made it very difficult to reach communities just behind that next mountain.  They reached agreements with many of these areas to establish low power re-broadcasting stations on a split cost basis, where the station would install the 5 watt transmitter if the residents of the area could raise half the money. CFJC-TV has 28 such re-broadcasting transmitters which were established in this manner  and cover 37,000 square miles.  At the time this microwave network was established in the ‘50s and ‘60s, it was the largest private network in existence and still ranks as one of the largest.

1971
On September 1, call letters were changed to CFJC-TV, in line with its affiliated radio station

1987

Rick       Arnish

CFJC-TV  along with CFJC-AM and CIFM were sold to The Jim Pattison Group of Vancouver.

2006
On February 1, the CRTC approved application to delete the condition of licence related to its affiliation with the CBC national, English-language television network.  The Commission had previously approved application for disaffiliation by CHBC-TV Kelowna, which had a joint sales agreement with CFJC-TV, enabling both stations to attract national advertising revenues and to operate at a profit.  The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group made the point that the joint sales agreement could not continue if both stations were not authorized to disaffiliate at the same time because the programming offered by CFJC-TV would be completely different from that offered by CHBC-TV.  The CBC argued that, given the unique circumstances of the case, the most appropriate and efficient means of making its full network and regional services available to viewers in the Kamloops market was by the distribution of CBUT Vancouver by satellite or cable.  On February 28, the station became the “New Independent CFJC-TV”.  

Website: http://www.cfjctv.com

                          Written by Gord Lansdell, Bill Dulmage - Updated March, 2010