CHEX-TV-2
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| City of license | Oshawa, Ontario |
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| Branding | Channel 12 Durham |
| Channels | Analog: 22 (UHF) Digital: Rogers cable channel 129 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment (591989 B.C. Ltd.) |
| First air date | 1992 (as transmitter of CHEX-TV) |
| Transmitter power | 5.5 kW |
| Height | 133.5 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°57′16″N 78°48′22″W / 43.95444°N 78.80611°W |
| Website | Channel 12 Durham |
CHEX-TV-2, branded as Channel 12 Durham (for its cable position; its broadcast channel is 22), is a CBC-affiliated television station in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, serving the Durham Region. The station's affiliation is despite the fact the Durham region is within the broadcast area of Toronto's CBLT. It is owned by Corus Entertainment, and is carried on Rogers Cable throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
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[edit] History
Oshawa, though larger than Peterborough, had not been granted a television station in the original 1950s channel assignments. Instead, it was folded into the Toronto market.
In 1992, CHEX-TV, based in Peterborough, started broadcasting its programming on a new transmitter in Oshawa, broadcasting on a channel used prior to 1988 as a Toronto-area rebroadcaster of CIII-TV (since Shaw acquired Global in 2010, no indication whether CHEX-2 can be converted to a Global affiliate). In 1993, the Oshawa transmitter became a semi-satellite with some slight differences in local programming. By the early 2000s, the station had adopted a very different schedule; for instance, its local current-affairs programs, Studio 12 News and In Depth with Dan Carter, are produced and aired independently of the Peterborough station, and focus on the Durham Region. It does overlap the CN Tower signal of CBLT-DT (formerly CBLT channel 5), giving Toronto two CBC stations (the first since 1961, when CHCH-TV became independent).
[edit] Programming
Most of CHEX-TV-2's CBC programming are children's shows, prime-time and weekend programs -- the rest of the schedule is filled with syndicated shows and local programming.
CHEX-2's current local programs are Studio 12 News, a half hour newscast weekdays at 5pm with news anchor Kate Wheeler, followed by In Depth with Dan Carter at 5:15.
[edit] Digital television and high definition
CHEX-TV-2 began broadcasting in digital in September 2010. It can be seen on Durham's own Channel 12 Television, in the GTA and beyond on Rogers digital cable channel 129. Despite the August 31, 2011 digital switch, all Toronto-area analogue signals were promptly turned off-air, except CHEX-TV-2, making it the last remaining analogue television signal still operating in the Greater Toronto Area.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Channel 12 Durham
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHEX-TV-2
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CHEX-TV-2
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