CFJC

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CFJC is the name of a television station in Kamloops, British Columbia. It is owned by Jim Pattison Broadcast Group and is affiliated with CBC Television.

CFJC began operations on April 8, 1957, using the call sign CFCR-TV; the station was recalled with its current name (similar to Kamloops radio station CFJC, its owner at the time) on September 1, 1971. Both stations were bought by Jim Pattison in 1987.

On November 1, 2005, the CRTC announced it had received an application from Pattison to disaffiliate CFJC from CBC. According to documents filed with the commission, the continuation of CFJC's joint sales agreement with CanWest station CHBC - which has already received clearance to disaffiliate and become a CH station - is contingent on CFJC's concurrent disaffiliation. If approved, CFJC expects to disaffiliate effective January 2, 2006, and will likely also become a CH station, in scheduling if not in name.

As of 2006, the CBC will be relying solely on cable and satellite carriage of its Vancouver station CBUT in the market, and will not be installing terrestrial transmitters in the Kamloops area for the foreseeable future.