CHAU-TV

CHAU-TV

City of license	Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec
Channels	Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: allocated 5 (VHF)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	TVA (secondary c. 1980-1983, primary 1983-present)
Owner	Télé Inter-Rives (CHAU-TV Communications Ltée)
First air date	October 17, 1959
Call letters' meaning	La baie des CHAleUrs
Former affiliations	Radio-Canada (1959-1983) CBC (secondary, 1959-1968)
Transmitter power	81.7 kW
Height	493.3 m
Transmitter coordinates	48°8′8″N 66°6′58″W
Website	TVA CHAU

CHAU-TV is a television station. It is the TVA affiliate in Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec and is owned by Télé Inter-Rives.

The original owner of CHAU was Dr. Charles Houde of La Télévision de la Baie des Chaleurs, who put the station on the air for the first time on October 17, 1959 as a dual CBC/SRC station. Initially, like all other Quebec private TV stations, CHAU broadcast both English and French shows. For CHAU, the ratio of English to French programs was 7:13. The station entered Radio-Canada's microwave network on March 24, 1960, and became an all-French station in 1968 when Montreal's CBMT opened a rebroadcaster in Carleton. In 1978, it became one of the last Canadian stations to air local programming in colour.

CHAU has been a TVA affiliate since December 18, 1983, when Radio-Canada opened a rebroadcaster of CBGAT in the Carleton area. In 1979, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) gave CHAU a mandate to extend TVA service to northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé as part of an effort to improve French-language television service in those areas. From about 1980 to the change to TVA, CHAU carried programs from both Radio-Canada and TVA. CHAU picks up the TVA signal from its sister station in Rivière-du-Loup, CIMT-TV, with both stations' logos used in network promos.

CHAU-TV holds the distinction of being the private TV station in Quebec with the largest transmitter network, with transmitters not only in the Gaspé, but also three rebroadcasters in New Brunswick. The station's main signal also covers most of northern New Brunswick—its city grade signal covers Campbellton, while its grade B signal reaches Bathurst.

CHAU-TV has been approved by the CRTC for and has plans for converting its transmitters to digital by the August 31, 2011 digital transition deadline, though none of its transmitters are subject to this deadline; neither the Gaspésie region nor the Campbellton area are designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion.

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CHAU-TV-1	Sainte-Marguerite-Marie	3 (VHF)	11.2 kW	206.7 m	48°18′40″N 67°5′3″W
CHAU-DT-2	Saint-Quentin, NB	31 (UHF)	0.226 kW	96.2 m	47°30′45″N 67°16′58″W
CHAU-TV-3	Port-Daniel	10 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	48°8′25″N 64°59′2″W
CHAU-TV-4	Chandler	6 (VHF)	0.055 kW	-14.9 m	48°21′22″N 64°41′5″W
CHAU-TV-5	Percé	13 (VHF)	58.22 kW	399.3 m	48°31′38″N 64°14′37″W
CHAU-TV-6	Gaspé	7 (VHF)	0.378 kW	73.8 m	48°50′15″N 64°29′32″W
CHAU-TV-7	Rivière-au-Renard	4 (VHF)	5.46 kW	226.8 m	48°59′52″N 64°25′52″W
CHAU-TV-8	Cloridorme	11 (VHF)	0.2 kW	34.4 m	49°11′27″N 64°53′31″W
CHAU-TV-9	L'Anse-à-Valleau	12 (VHF)	0.057 kW	70.4 m	49°4′24″N 64°32′16″W
CHAU-TV-10	Tracadie, NB	9 (VHF)	0.025 kW	48.9 m	47°30′14″N 64°55′14″W
CHAU-DT-11	Kedgwick, NB	27 (UHF)	0.093 kW	66.6 m	47°38′12″N 67°21′15″W

External links

• TVA CHAU
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CHAU-TV History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHAU-TV
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CHAU-TV