CHNB-TV

CHNB-TV
(defunct)

City of license	North Bay, Ontario
Branding	MCTV - CBC
Channels	Analog: 4 (VHF)
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Mid-Canada Communications (1971 - 1990) Baton Broadcasting/CTV Inc. (1990 - 2002)
First air date	October 15, 1971
Last air date	October 27, 2002
Sister station(s)	CKNY-TV
Transmitter power	100 kW
Height	223.1 m
Transmitter coordinates	46°3′46″N 79°26′7″W

CHNB-TV was a television station in North Bay, Ontario. In operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, it is now a repeater of the network's station in Toronto, CBLT.

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, and now exist only as rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT.

The former CHNB's call sign is now CBLT-4.

External links

• CRTC Decision 2001-457-6, license renewal for all MCTV stations.
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CHNB-TV History