CJAL
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CJAL is an educational television station in Edmonton, Alberta branded as ACCESS, Alberta's provincial educational broadcasting service. The station is available over-the-air in Edmonton and Calgary (a transmitter with the callsign CIAN rebroadcasts CJAL's signal), and throughout Alberta on cable.
Entertaining, informative and eductaional programs make up a competitive broadcast schedule that includes programs for children, movies and dramatic series, quiz shows, documentaries and talk shows.
ACCESS produces, promotes and delivers television-based multimedia learning opportunites to learners of all ages, in partnership with Alberta Learning, educational institutions and educators. Many of the programs, including all of the dramas, are connected to and promote formal courses of study offered by the province's universities and colleges or the formal learning objectives of Alberta Learning.
Formerly owned by access media group, which was majority-owned by CHUM Limited, it has been wholly owned by CHUM Limited since early 2005.