CHNB-TV

CHNB-TV was a television station in North Bay, Ontario. The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.

History

CHNB was established on October 15, 1971 by J. Conrad Lavigne, the owner of CFCL in Timmins. On the same day, the existing television station in North Bay, CKNY, switched affiliation to CTV.

Until 1980, CHNB and CKNY aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the North Bay market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in Sudbury and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.

In 1990, the MCTV stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting, which became the sole corporate owner of CTV in 1997.

End of operations

CTV subsequently sold its four CBC affiliates in Northern Ontario — CHNB, CJIC in Sault Ste. Marie, CKNC in Sudbury and CFCL in Timmins — directly to the CBC in 2002. All four ceased to exist as separate stations on October 27, 2002, becoming rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT, with CHNB's call sign changed to CBLT-4. These translators would close on July 31, 2012, due to budget cuts affecting the CBC.

CHNB-DT

CHNB-DT (branded on-air as Global New Brunswick) is the Global owned-and-operated television station, serving New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that is licensed to Saint John, New Brunswick. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 12. Often time the station is viewed on channel 198 on Bell TV where the province has no local Global station.

Owned by Shaw Media, it is a sister station to CIHF-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is operated out of CIHF's studios on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax.

History

The station was launched on September 5, 1988 as CIHF-TV-2, owned by the Irving family's New Brunswick Broadcasting Company, which also owned CHSJ-TV, the CBC affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station launched with three transmitters, namely those in Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton. When MITV launched, the station took all primetime American shows from CHSJ—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all primetime American programming nationwide. However Dallas and The Nanny (smiulcast from WABI-TV and WAGM-TV via cable and satellite) and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Blossom (moved to CTV Atlantic in 1992) (from WLBZ-TV via cable and satellite which also moved to daytime and carried reruns instead of new episodes at night starting in 1993 or later) which were on CBC through the early 1990s.