CHLT-DT,
virtual and
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channel 7, is a
TVA owned-and-operated television station licensed to
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the
Groupe TVA subsidiary of
Quebecor Media. CHLT-DT's studios are located on Rue King Ouest (near
Route 112) in Sherbrooke, and its transmitter is located in
Orford. This station can also be seen on
Vidéotron channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 604.
History
The station went on the air for the first time on August 12,
1956
Events
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. It was owned by ''
La Tribune'', the city's major newspaper, along with
CHLT radio. Like most television stations in Quebec, it was a dual affiliate of both
CBC and
Radio-Canada. It usually went on the air sooner than other Quebec stations, forcing it to fill the schedule with local shows. ''La Tribune'' was eventually acquired by
Power Corporation of Canada, which sold CHLT to
Telemedia in 1968.
When
CKSH-TV
CKSH-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, branded on-air as ICI Estrie, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated station licensed to Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and serving the Estrie region. The station is owned by the Canadian Bro ...
went on the air on September 19, 1974, it took all Radio-Canada programming away from CHLT. Sherbrooke's anglophone population was too small for CHLT to be viable as a privately owned CBC Television affiliate. As a result, it joined TVA that same day after
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 CB ...
in
Montreal opened a translator in Sherbrooke. Five years later,
Pathonic Communications acquired CHLT and four other stations from Telemedia, forming a network which from 1986–1990 was branded as
Réseau Pathonic.
Pathonic's stations often aired a schedule different from that offered on TVA flagship station
CFTM-TV in Montreal. As a result, since CHLT's over-the-air signal reaches Montreal, it was also carried on
CF Cable and
Vidéotron in the latter city, and it was therefore considered to be the Réseau Pathonic station for the Greater Montreal area in the late-1980s. However, after CFTM's owner, Télé-Metropole, took full control of TVA in 1990 and also absorbed Pathonic into TVA at the same time, CHLT has basically functioned as a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts and commercials. CF Cable stopped carrying CHLT in the early 1990s, and Vidéotron followed suit in 1995.
During the analogue era, CHLT was one of TVA's most powerful stations; its terrestrial footprint extended as far as northwestern
Maine. Also, as with CKSH-DT, CHLT enjoys cable coverage throughout selected areas of Northern New England, as far east as
Augusta and
Rockland, Maine.
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zip code 04841 (Rockland).
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