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CJOH-TV
Ottawa, Ontario
Branding	CTV Ottawa
Slogan	Ottawa's News Leader
Channels	Analog: 13 (VHF) Digital: 58 (not yet on air)
Affiliations	CTV (O&O)
Owner	CTVglobemedia
Founded	1961
Call letters meaning	C J Ottawa Hull
Former affiliations	none
Website	www.cjoh.com

CJOH-TV (known on-air as CTV Ottawa) is a television station serving Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the surrounding region. Owned by CTVglobemedia, it is part of the CTV Television Network.

CJOH provides CTV network coverage for all of Eastern Ontario, a large segment of Western Quebec and portions of Northern New York, USA. The station broadcasts on Channel 13 from the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Gatineau, Quebec (serving Ottawa-Gatineau); Channel 8 from Lancaster, Ontario (serving Cornwall and, indirectly, Montreal); Channel 6 from Deseronto (serving Kingston and, indirectly, Watertown, New York) and Channel 47 from Pembroke. The station is seen on Cable 7 in Ottawa and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.

The station's studios and offices are located on Merivale Road in Nepean. Newscasts are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., with the 6 p.m. newscast anchored by Max Keeping and Carol Anne Meehan.

CJOH no longer identifies itself on-air by its call letters, having adopted the unified CTV network brand, and its newscasts are also branded CTV News.

Founded by Ernie Bushnell, CJOH signed on for the first time on March 12, 1961. It acquired former Cornwall, Ontario CBC affiliate CJSS as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first station in Canada to cease operations. The Channel 6 transmitter in Deseronto became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. Standard Broadcasting owned the station from 1975 to 1988, when it was sold to Baton Broadcasting. Baton was purchased by Bell Globemedia, now CTVglobemedia, in 1998.

In the 1980s and early-1990s, when CTV offered Toronto Blue Jays baseball, CJOH's channel 8 transmitter in Lancaster/Cornwall had to show alternate programming instead, since the area was considered Montreal Expos territory. This substitute programming often had no commercials, and often had no definite end, as the length of baseball games varied. This was discontinued when the Blue Jays left CTV.

CJOH's former logo (1998-2005). As of October 2005 logos with the stations' callsigns are no longer used on CTV stations; instead they all use the main CTV logo.

From 1990 to 1997, the station was co-owned with Pembroke-based CHRO-TV, which was for the majority of that period a CTV affiliate for the Upper Ottawa Valley. In 1997, as part of a major trade, CHRO was transferred to CHUM Limited, and became a NewNet (later A-Channel) station primarily serving Ottawa. In 2007, CTVglobemedia received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to acquire CHUM; while CTV did not originally plan to keep A-Channel, it has decided to do so following a CRTC requirement to sell the Citytv system. This will once again make CJOH and CHRO sister stations in a market with only one other local English-language station, CBOT. Interestingly, while the CRTC forced the Citytv sale because of concerns about media concentration with multiple stations in the same city, it had no problem allowing the Ottawa twinstick, apparently due to the stations' joint ownership in the 1990s.

Well-known celebrities who first appeared on CJOH include Rich Little, Alanis Morissette, Sandra Oh and Peter Jennings. Jennings started his professional career with the station during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.

Morrissette was briefly part of the cast on a local sketch comedy show, You Can't Do That On Television, aimed at the pre-teen and teen demographics. Originally conceived as a local and partially live production in 1979, the series became a huge success in the United States for the cable channel Nickelodeon starting in 1982 and was subsequently screened in many other countries.

In January of 1970, the station aired an interview in which the word "fuck" was spoken 19 times. In the resulting outcry, several high-ranking executives resigned.

Additionally, You Can't Do That On Television was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as the show's infamous "green slime." The controversy didn't stop the show from becoming a huge hit, locally and eventually globally.

On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor Brian Smith was shot in the station's parking lot by Jeffrey Arenburg, an escaped mental patient who thought the station was broadcasting messages in his head. Smith died in hospital the following day. The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control legislation.

• Compass
• Vue (where Peter Jennings made his debut)
• Saturday Date
• Platform
• Dear Charlotte
• Uncle Chichimus
• Miss Helen
• The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr (produced for the CBC)
• Question Period
• The Amazing Kreskin
• Country Way
• Joys of Collecting
• Family Brown Country
• Morning Magazine
• Uncle Willy & Floyd
• You Can't Do That On Television
• Marie-Soleil
• Homegrown Cafe
• Regional Contact with Joel Haslam & Kathie Donovan

• c. 1978 — More to See
• c. 1979 — You Never Looked Better!
• c. late 1980s-1994 — Here for You!
• Now — Ottawa's News Leader

• CJOH
• CTV Media website
• CTVglobemedia
• Satellite view of CJOH Studios from Google Maps