CVM Television

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}} {{Infobox television station | callsign = CVM TV | logo = | country = JM | location = Kingston | branding = CVM | analog = 8 | digital = | virtual = | subchannels = CVM Plus | translators = | affiliations = | owner = VertiCast Media Group | licensee = | founded = July 31, 1990 | airdate = March 1993 | last_airdate = | callsign_meaning = | sister_stations = Csport, Csport 2 | former_callsigns = | former_channel_numbers = | former_affiliations = | erp = | haat = | class = | coordinates = | website = https://www.cvmtv.com }}

'''CVM Television Limited''' ('''CVM TV''') is a national television network in Kingston, Jamaica owned by VertiCast Media Group. The station's name is an acronym for the three original major shareholders granted the television license in 1991: '''C'''ommunity Television Systems Limited, '''V'''ideomax Limited, and '''M'''ediamix Limited.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ly4RqI91TiIC&pg=PA103|title=Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica|first=Gina A.|last=Ulysse|date=28 August 2018|publisher=University of Chicago Press|accessdate=28 August 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref>

CVM is known for broadcasting newscasts and Caribbean lifestyle & entertainment shows, as well as overseas movie and TV productions. ''CVM News'' has been one of the station's long-running programmes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20180505/thats-wrap-irvin-forbes-leaves-cvm-after-20-years|title=That's a wrap: Irvin Forbes leaves CVM after 20 years|work=Jamaica Gleaner | date=5 May 2018}}</ref>

==History== CVM TV was granted a licence to operate in March 1991, and began providing commercial television services in March 1993.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://uwispace.sta.uwi.edu/dspace/handle/2139/43499 | title=Jamaican media: ringing the changes: 50 years and beyond | first=Hopeton S. | last=Dunn | via=University of the West Indies | journal=Buzz | volume=6 | number=3 | date=2012 | issn=0799-2327 | at=download PDF file to view}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portlandholdings.com/info.aspx?disp=media|title=Media – CVM Television Limited|author=|date=|work=Portland Holdings|accessdate=28 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvtechnology.com/expertise/jampro-antennas-meets-digital-deadline-for-jamaicas-cvm-tv|title=Jampro Antennas meets digital deadline for Jamaica's CVM TV|author=|date=6 September 2012|work=TV Technology|accessdate=28 August 2018}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSQybAJv3qYC&pg=PA76|title=Media and the Politics of Culture: The Case of Television Privatization and Media Globalization in Jamaica (1990-2007)|first=Nickesia S.|last=Gordon|date=28 August 2018|publisher=Universal-Publishers|accessdate=28 August 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref>

It was reported on September 27, 2022 that CVM TV was sold to the VertiCast Media Group led by media mogul Oliver McIntosh. Oliver McIntosh had been in charge of cable sports channel Sportsmax for over two decades before forming his media company.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/article/cvm-tv-sold-to-oliver-mcintosh/ | title=CVM-TV sold to Verticast | date=26 September 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20220926/new-cvm-owner-promises-immediate-unprecedented-enhancements | title=New CVM owner promises 'immediate, unprecedented enhancements' | date=26 September 2022 }}</ref> With the ownership change, CVM TV became a sibling to VertiCast's new Csport networks that launched the same year.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/verticast-media-group-moves-forward-with-regional-roll-out/ | title=VertiCast Media Group moves forward with regional roll-out| date=15 July 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/verticast-channels-go-live-in-the-caribbean-armed-with-premier-league-rights/|title=Verticast channels go live in the Caribbean armed with Premier League rights| date=1 August 2022 }}</ref> Later that Fall, CVM TV would broadcast the 2022 FIFA World Cup with Csport; marking the return of the FIFA World Cup to the station for the first time in a near-decade.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latest-news/cvm-to-broadcast-world-cup-2022/ | title=CVM to broadcast World Cup 2022| date=6 October 2022 }}</ref>

==List of programmes== {{unreferenced section|date=November 2023}}

===Current=== ===Domestic===

====News==== *''CVM News''

====Sports==== *''CVM Sports''

====Breakfast==== *''Sunrise''

===International=== ====Drama==== *''The Sopranos''

====Comedy==== *''Are You Being Served?'' *''Keeping Up Appearances''

===Former=== ===International=== ====Drama==== *''ER'' *''NYPD Blue'' *''Picket Fences'' *''Silk Stalkings'' *''Street Justice'' *''The X-Files''

====Children's==== *''Abby Hatcher'' *''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' *''Action Man'' *''Adventures of the Gummi Bears'' *''Animaniacs'' *''Astro Boy'' *''Barney & Friends'' *''Beetlejuice'' *''Butterbean's Café'' *''Dora the Explorer (TV series)'' *''Doug'' *''Free Willy'' *''The Magic School Bus'' *''The Mummy'' *''The New Archies'' *''Lazer Tag Academy'' *''The Little Mermaid'' *''Merrie Melodies'' *''Nella the Princess Knight'' *''Pinky and the Brain'' *''Police Academy'' *''The Puzzle Place'' *''Rainbow Rangers'' *''Reading Rainbow'' *''The Real Ghostbusters'' *''Romeo!'' *''Salty's Lighthouse'' *''Sesame Street'' *''Shimmer and Shine'' *''Shoebox Zoo'' *''Space Strikers'' *''Sunny Day (TV series)'' *''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad'' *''Tak and the Power of Juju'' *''Taz-Mania'' *''Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic'' *''V.R. Troopers''

====Comedy==== *''The 5 Mrs. Buchanans'' *''Blossom'' *''Family Matters'' *''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' *''Hangin' with Mr. Cooper'' *''The Jamie Foxx Show'' *''Married... with Children'' *''Step by Step'' *''The Upper Hand''

==See also== {{Portal|Jamaica|Journalism}} * Television Jamaica (TVJ)

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.cvmtv.com}}

Category:Television channels and stations established in 1993 Category:1990s establishments in Jamaica Category:Television stations in Jamaica