CHAB-TV
| Programming | |
|---|---|
| Affiliations | defunct |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 50°23′37.3″N 105°56′24.5″W / 50.393694°N 105.940139°W |
CHAB-TV was a television station in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The station signed on the air on July 7, 1959 under the ownership of CHAB Ltd., the parent company of Moose Jaw radio station
semi-satellite
in Regina on December 21 that year. In return, CKCK-TV signed on a rebroadcaster in Moose Jaw.
On May 30,
CHAN-TV in Vancouver. However, the CRTC denied this bid on July 18, 1969 in favour of a counteroffer from the CBC. On September 13, CBC officially assumed control of CHRE and CHAB and recalled the stations as CBKRT and CBKMT, respectively. CBKRT was made the main station, with CBKMT as a semi-satellite.[1]
On July 31, 1978, CBKRT was recalled
Gravelbourg and Willow Bunch
were also transferred to the new licence. The transmitter was finally shut down on July 31, 2012 due to austerity measures implemented at the CBC. However, CBKMT maintained its own local television newsroom until 1984 when it became a full repeater of CBKT-TV in Regina and when CBKT opened the CBC Southwest Saskatchewan Broadcast Centre on Broad Street in Regina.
References
- ^ "Canadian Communications Foundation - CHAB-TV/CBKT History". Archived from the original on 2007-10-04. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
External links
- CHAB-TV at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation