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CHAU-DT (channel 5) is a
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in
Carleton-sur-Mer Carleton-sur-Mer () is the fifth largest town of the Gaspésie's south shore, in southeastern Quebec, Canada, located on Route 132, along Chaleur Bay. It is the seat of the Avignon Regional County Municipality. The town's territory includes ...
, Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the French-language network
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. Owned by
Télé Inter-Rives Télé Inter-Rives Limited ("Inter-Riverbank Television", literal translation) is a broadcasting company based in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. The Simard family holds a 55% stake in Télé Inter-Rives, with Quebecor (owner of Groupe TVA and the T ...
, the station maintains studios on Boulevard Perron/ Route 132 in Carleton-sur-Mer, with transmitter near Rue de la Montagne.


History

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. Initially, like all other Quebec private TV stations, CHAU was a dual
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/ SRC affiliate airing both
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and
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shows. For CHAU, the ratio of English to French programs was 7:13. The station entered Radio-Canada's
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network on March 24, 1960, and became an all-French station in 1968 when
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's
CBMT CBMT-DT (channel 6) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, broadcasting the English-language service of CBC Television. It is owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation alongside Ici Radio-Canada Télé flagship ...
opened a rebroadcaster in Carleton. In 1978, it became one of the last Canadian stations to air local programming in colour. In 1979, the
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(CRTC) gave CHAU a mandate to extend TVA service to northern
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and the
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region as part of an effort to improve French-language television service in those areas. Accordingly, around 1980, CHAU began carrying TVA programming in off-hours. It became an exclusive TVA affiliate on December 18, 1983, when Radio-Canada opened a rebroadcaster of CBGAT in the Carleton area. In 2000, CHAU-TV was one of four television stations purchased from the
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by
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, and the only one located outside Ontario. It was soon resold. CHAU picks up the TVA signal from its sister station in
Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city (Quebec), city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the Judicial districts of Quebec ...
,
CIMT-DT CIMT-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the French-language network TVA. Owned by Télé Inter-Rives, it is part of a twinstick with Noovo affiliate CFTF-DT (channel 29). The two sta ...
, with both stations' logos used in network promos. CHAU-DT holds the distinction of owning the largest
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network of any privately owned station in Quebec. Its rebroadcaster network blankets the Gaspé, and it also operates 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. It also operates a bureau in Bathurst. CIMT also operates a rebroadcaster in
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, and between them the two stations provide TVA service to the entire province. CHAU-DT was approved by the CRTC for and had 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. CHAU-DT converted all of its transmitters to digital in November 2011. On June 6, 2018, Télé Inter-Rives filed an application with the CRTC to add a transmitter in the
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, expanding its already-large coverage area. If approved, this transmitter would receive the call sign CHAU-DT-12, broadcasting on VHF channel 12 at 100 watts from a tower in
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. The station had also expressed its interest in offering news coverage for viewers on the islands and work with independent media producers for further local content that would air on CHAU-DT and its repeater network, including the proposed CHAU-DT-12.Fagstein: "Télé Inter-Rives proposes bringing over-the-air TV back to Îles-de-la-Madeleine", June 6, 2018
/ref> The new repeater would broadcast on a channel previously used by local Radio-Canada repeater CBIMT—it and CBMT repeater CBMYT channel 7 closed down on July 31, 2012, when budget cuts forced the closure of the CBC and Radio-Canada's remaining analogue transmitters. The closedown of the CBC/Radio-Canada repeater network had left the Magdalen Islands without any over-the-air television service, due to its location far from the mainland.


Transmitters

CHAU-DT-5 was approved by the CRTC on April 8, 2013, to relocate its broadcasting frequency from channel 13 to channel 11; the station's owners cited interference from
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station
CBCT-DT CBCT-DT (channel 13) is a CBC Television station in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The station's studios are located on University Avenue in Charlottetown, and its transmitter is located on Route 1 near Bonshaw. It is the only ful ...
in
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,
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, which also broadcasts on channel 13, as the reason.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-179, April 8, 2013.
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References


External links

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at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the
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