CHEX-TV
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| City of license | Peterborough, Ontario |
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| Channels | Analog: 12 (VHF) Digital: allocated 12 (UHF) |
| Translators | 4 CHEX-TV-1 Bancroft |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment, Inc. (591989 B.C. Ltd.) |
| First air date | March 25, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | CH Peterborough EXaminer (former owner, local newspaper) |
| Sister station(s) | CKRU-FM, CKWF-FM |
| Transmitter power | 185 kW |
| Height | 316.5 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°19′42″N 78°17′58″W / 44.32833°N 78.29944°W |
| Website | CHEX Television |
CHEX-TV is a television station in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and an affiliate of the CBC Television network. It began broadcasting on March 26, 1955, with an NHL ice hockey game. The station broadcasts over-the-air on channel 12.
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[edit] History
It was founded by a media partnership that already published the Peterborough Examiner newspaper and owned radio station CHEX. The partnership included politician Rupert Davies, who was also involved in a similar arrangement in Kingston that established CKWS-TV. Since April 13, 2000, it has been owned by Canadian media conglomerate Corus Entertainment.
In early 2006, it agreed to extend its CBC affiliation "for years to come" ([1]), its proximity to Toronto's CBLT means that non-core network programming can be, and often is, preempted without causing a tremendous loss in CBC service to local cable viewers, as CBLT is carried on cable in Peterborough. CHEX-TV is also carried on digital cable on the eastern edge of the Greater Toronto Area. As a private CBC affiliate, CHEX-TV airs only the minimum amount of CBC programming, 40 hours per week.
On April 21, 2009, CHEX was the only CBC station to carry a NHL playoff game between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia over a game between St. Louis and Vancouver. They were able to do this because of CBLT's availability on cable. In the 1980s, CHEX would carry the Montreal Canadiens games on Hockey Night in Canada, over the relatively nearby Toronto Maple Leafs.
CHEX-TV-2 in the Durham Region, formerly a semi-satellite, now airs a very different schedule from the Peterborough station. CHEX originally operated two rebroadcast transmitters on Channels 2 and 10, in Bancroft and Minden, respectively. The Bancroft transmitter, still on the air today, switched to Channel 4 before Global station CKGN-TV established a transmitter there on Channel 2 in 1974. The Minden transmitter switched to Channel 7 at some point, and shut down in the early or mid-1980s. The Oshawa transmitter was added in 1992 in order to overcome an impaired signal for Channel 12 in that area, and began airing separate programming a year later.
[edit] News operation
Local newscasts, branded as Newswatch, air weeknights at 5:30, 6:00, and 11:00 p.m, with repeats the next morning. (On public holidays, CHEX's 6PM newscasts are replaced with CBLT's CBC News: Toronto at Six, with its other newscasts replaced with special programming.)
[edit] Digital television and high definition
As of September 2011, CHEX-TV has not yet begun broadcasting in digital. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has not listed Peterborough as one of its mandatory markets for analogue television shutdown and digital conversion,[1] and therefore CHEX-TV was not required to convert to digital transmissions on the transition date of August 31, 2011.[2]
CHEX-TV began digital HDTV service to cable subscribers in November 2010, and initially had planned to start its over-the-air digital broadcasts in late 2011.[3] Analogue shutoff and CHEX-DT digital HDTV broadcast on existing Peterborough VHF channel 12 are as of 2011[update] not expected "for the next year or two. Over time, as resources become available, [the station] will be switching [its] OTA transmitters to digital."[4]
While CHEX-TV is currently available digitally in standard-definition as part of the Bell TV satellite pay-TV package, CHEX-TV planned to provide a HD signal to satellite providers in fall 2011.[citation needed]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- CHEX Television
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CHEX-TV History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHEX-TV
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CHEX
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