CVM Television explained

Callsign:	CVM TV
Location:	Jamaica
City:	Kingston
Owner:	VertiCast Media Group
Founded:	July 31, 1990
Airdate:	March 1993
Sister Stations:	Csport, Csport 2
Website:	https://www.cvmtv.com

CVM Television Limited (CVM TV) is a television station 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: Community Television Systems Limited, Videomax Limited, and Mediamix Limited.^[1]

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.^[2]

History

CVM TV was granted a licence to operate in March 1991, and began providing commercial television services in March 1993.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

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.^{[7] [8]} With the ownership change, CVM TV became a sibling to VertiCast's new Csport networks that launched the same year.^{[9] [10]} 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.^[11]

List of programmes

Domestic

News

• CVM News

Sports

• CVM Sports

Breakfast

• Sunrise

International

Drama

• The Sopranos

Comedy

• Are You Being Served?
• Keeping Up Appearances

International

Drama

• ER
• NYPD Blue
• Picket Fences
• Silk Stalkings
• Street Justice
• The X-Files

Children's

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Action Man
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears
• Animaniacs
• Astro Boy
• Barney & Friends
• Beetlejuice
• Butterbean's Cafe
• 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
• 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

• Television Jamaica (TVJ)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica. Gina A.. Ulysse. 28 August 2018. University of Chicago Press. 28 August 2018. Google Books.
2. News: That's a wrap: Irvin Forbes leaves CVM after 20 years. . 5 May 2018.
3. Jamaican media: ringing the changes: 50 years and beyond . Hopeton S. . Dunn . . Buzz . 6 . 3 . 2012 . 0799-2327 . download PDF file to view.
4. Web site: Media  - CVM Television Limited. Portland Holdings. 28 August 2018.
5. Web site: Jampro Antennas meets digital deadline for Jamaica's CVM TV. 6 September 2012. TV Technology. 28 August 2018.
6. Web site: Media and the Politics of Culture: The Case of Television Privatization and Media Globalization in Jamaica (1990-2007). Nickesia S.. Gordon. 28 August 2018. Universal-Publishers. 28 August 2018. Google Books.
7. Web site: CVM-TV sold to Verticast . 26 September 2022 .
8. Web site: New CVM owner promises 'immediate, unprecedented enhancements' . 26 September 2022 .
9. Web site: VertiCast Media Group moves forward with regional roll-out. 15 July 2022 .
10. Web site: Verticast channels go live in the Caribbean armed with Premier League rights. 1 August 2022 .
11. Web site: CVM to broadcast World Cup 2022. 6 October 2022 .