As a privately owned station, CKTM effectively functioned as a semi-satellite of CBFT in Montreal due to a lack of non-network sources of programming.

Radio-Canada took editorial control of the station's news programming in 2002, although it continued to share a studio with CFKM.

An application to directly acquire the stations was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to Remstar Corporation.

[2] Radio-Canada relocated all its radio and television facilities in the region into an integrated production centre,[3] which opened on March 22, 2010, in Trois-Rivières.

Radio-Canada intends on increasing its local programming output on its radio and television stations in the region.