CHBX-TV
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CHBX (also commonly known as CTV Northern Ontario) is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It is an O&O of CTV. The station's signal also reaches the eastern portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the station can be seen over the air as far south as Gaylord, Michigan.
CHBX is essentially a semi-satellite of CICI in Sudbury. It airs the same programming as CICI at all times, except some commercials and regional segments on the news.
History
The station began broadcasting on November 5, 1977 as CKCY-TV. It was owned by Huron Broadcasting along with CBC affiliate CJIC-TV, and was a sister station of an AM radio outlet with the same call letters. Prior to the sign-on of CKCY, CTV programming was available in Sault Ste. Marie on cable from Sudbury's CKSO-TV (now CICI).
It adopted the current CHBX call sign in 1985, when the radio station was sold to Mid-Canada Radio. In 1990, Huron sold CHBX and its CBC twinstick CJIC-TV to Baton Broadcasting, which merged them into the MCTV system.[1] Ironically, MCTV flagship CICI had been available on cable in the Sault for part of the 1980s; the two stations aired radically different programming at the time.
Baton became the sole corporate owner of CTV in 1997, and sold CJIC to the CBC in 2002.
Transmitters
CHBX also broadcasts on CHBX-TV-1 channel 7 in Wawa; this repeater was among a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide to have shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid retransmission consent requirements for cable television operators.[2] A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTV Globemedia to Bell Canada Enterprises; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.[3]
References
External links
- CTV Sault Ste. Marie
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CHBX-TV History
- CHBX-TV in the REC Canadian station database
- Template:TV Fool
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