The Omni Regional brand expanded outside of Toronto for the first time in 2005, with Rogers' acquisition of religious independent stations in Vancouver and Winnipeg.
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12 Facts About Omni Regional
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In 2012, Omni Regional added an affiliate in Montreal via the new multicultural station CFHD-DT, with Rogers agreeing to help support the station in exchange for relieving CJNT of its own multicultural remit.
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Since September 2017, Omni Regional began to be distributed throughout the remainder of the country, as a group of specialty channels with mandatory carriage.
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Omni Regional brand was expanded in 2005, when Rogers acquired two religious TV stations, CHNU in the Vancouver market and CIIT in Winnipeg, from Trinity Television.
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Several proposed changes to the Omni Regional system were announced, either by Rogers or by the CRTC, during a one-month span from June to July 2007.
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Omni Regional pledged to increase its investments in original domestic content.
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In June 2019, the Corriere Canadese sent a letter to the cabinet requesting an appeal of the CRTC's decision, citing that the Commission ignored "widespread and intense dissatisfaction" with Rogers and Omni "in respect of its minimal conditions of license for Omni Regional to serve the multi-lingual multi-ethnic community of Canadians".
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The Toronto-based Omni Regional stations are differently licensed with respect to the languages and communities they serve: CFMT airs programming for European and Caribbean language communities, while CJMT airs programming for the Pan-Asian and Pan-African audiences.
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Since 2019, Omni Regional Television has carried the Eurovision Song Contest.
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The Omni stations do not typically air primetime programs simulcast from U S networks, but Omni occasionally served as an overflow channel for Citytv after Rogers' purchase of the network—allowing them to maintain their simsub rights in its duopoly markets.
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The common brand allowed cost savings for promotions and for the acquisition of the general-entertainment programs that all of the Omni Regional stations had used to generate most of their revenues.
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Omni Regional Alberta produced newscasts in Cantonese and Mandarin, as well as an English language South Asian newscast, from its launch in 2008 until 2011.
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