10 Facts About Omni Television

The Omni Television brand expanded outside of Toronto for the first time in 2005, with Rogers' acquisition of religious independent stations in Vancouver and Winnipeg.

In 2012, Omni Television 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.

Since September 2017, Omni Television began to be distributed throughout the remainder of the country, as a group of specialty channels with mandatory carriage.

Several proposed changes to the Omni Television system were announced, either by Rogers or by the CRTC, during a one-month span from June to July 2007.

Omni Television pledged to increase its investments in original domestic content.

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The Toronto-based Omni Television 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.

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.

The common brand allowed cost savings for promotions and for the acquisition of the general-entertainment programs that all of the Omni Television stations had used to generate most of their revenues.

Omni Television stations have occasionally aired sporting events in minority languages, and in English as an overflow for Citytv or Sportsnet.

Omni Television Alberta produced newscasts in Cantonese and Mandarin, as well as an English language South Asian newscast, from its launch in 2008 until 2011.