CHNB-TV

CHNB-TV
(defunct)

City	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 / 46.06278°N 79.43528°W

CHNB-TV was a television station in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.

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 revenues, 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, and 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

In 2002, CTV 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.^[1] All four ceased to exist as separate stations on October 27, 2002, and become rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT. CHNB's call sign was changed to CBLT-4. These translators closed on July 31, 2012, because of budget cuts at the CBC.^[2][3]

References

1. CRTC Decision 2002-303
2. Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan
3. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-384, July 17, 2012.

External links

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