CHBC-TV
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CHBC-TV is a television station in Kelowna
, British Columbia
, Canada
owned by Shaw Media
. It transmits on channel 2, and cable channel 4, and broadcasts on 18 relay stations.
A former CBC
affiliate
and later an E! owned-and-operated station
(O&O), as of August 31, 2009 the station carries programming from the Global Television Network
, branded as Global Okanagan. The station continues to air local news under the title CHBC News.
Kelowna, CKOK
Penticton and CJIB
Vernon
. Due to the mountainous terrain of the area, repeaters were begun a few weeks later in Vernon (on channel 7 with 310 watts) and Penticton (on channel 13 with 300 watts).
To begin with, only 500 homes in the area had television receivers, but that amount rose to 10,000 the following year. The station had ordered two studio cameras, but due to the number of TV stations starting in North America in that period, the station had to make do with one camera on loan for a year until the order was filled. They also relied on 16 mm film which was developed first by a local photo lab, and then again in-house.
In 1960, the station began receiving programs from the CBC via its microwave link. Prior to this, all network programs were received on kinescope and 16 mm film, with regular shows airing a week later after they were aired on the main stations, and the National News aired a day after. Local programs and ads were produced live to air. Programs produced locally in the early days included Kids Bids, The Three R's, Romper Room
, Let's Visit, Midday, Focus and Okanagan Magazine.
In 1964, CHBC received its first video tape machine, which aided the production of locally produced programming and commercials. Two years later, colour television arrived via the network, and the station gradually installed more equipment for colour production and transmission, as well as telecine and videotape.
In the late 1960s, CHBC and Kamloops' CBC affiliate CFJC
formed BCI-TV, an internal company headed by CHBC for programming and sales of the combined Okanagan/Kamloops markets. The national sales were delegated to All Canada Sales, and they sold the two stations' advertising as a single unit under the name "BCI TV". For years, both stations carried virtually identical programming schedules apart from local news.
In 1970, Vancouver
's BCTV
came to an agreement with CHBC to provide a CTV
service to the area, via a protective service, which protected local advertisers from Vancouver advertisers with cut-ins on the second station. In 1971, full conversion to colour was completed when a colour studio camera was purchased.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the ownership of the station changed, beginning with the purchase of CKOK's one-third ownership by general manager Roy Chapman, which he later sold to BCTV. Selkirk Communications
brought CJIB, and along with it, its 33% stake. CKOV sold its stake in equal parts to both BCTV and Selkirk, which resulted in a 50/50 ownership structure. When Maclean-Hunter
took over Selkirk in 1989, Western International Communications
(WIC) (BCTV's parent company) purchased Selkirk's stake to take full control of CHBC.
In 1987, President and General Manager Ron Evans spearheaded a campaign wherein the station become known as "The Okanagan's Very Own CHBC" in order to compete with the forty television signals being distributed by cable operators in the market. As a result, more local programs and commercials were produced, and involvement in the 55 communities served by CHBC was increased. This commitment has been recognized and rewarded by improved ratings and many industry awards and CHBC was often held-up as a Canadian model for its ability to identify with the community it serves during this era.
In 1998, the Griffiths family's stake in WIC was sold to Shaw Communications
and Canwest. After months of negotiation, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the split of WIC's assets between Canwest, Corus Radio and Shaw Communications. CHBC was sold to Canwest in 2000, along with its sister station BCTV. When Canwest acquired CHBC, it assumed the same role in selling advertising and providing programming, primarily from its CH service.
, the CBC's Vancouver O&O, subsequently added a new transmitter in Kelowna on channel 45. After its BCI-TV partner CFJC-TV received a similar approval to disaffiliate from the CBC, both stations changed affiliations on February 27, 2006 and continued the operation of BCI-TV with new programs supplied from Canwest's secondary CH television system
.
CHBC was the only Canwest-owned CH station to not use the CH brand on-air, opting to brand using its call letters instead, with its newscasts titled CHBC News. The local newscast branding remained following CH's rebrand to E! in 2007.
In November 2008, CHBC announced its newscasts would no longer be produced at its studios in Kelowna. The newscast would use a virtual studio at CHEK Victoria
and will be produced by Global BC. In addition, the noon newscast would be cancelled. The decision to move the anchor job to Victoria was later reversed due to viewer complaints to the station. The half-hour 11 p.m. newscast would later be extended to a full hour to make up for the loss of the half-hour noon newscast, while the 5 p.m. news began with a half hour lifestyle newscast anchored by Doris Janssen.
(Global BC), which has operated a semi-satellite, CHKL-TV on channel 5, in the region since the early 1980s.
For the foreseeable future, it is expected that both stations will continue to operate separately, due to the highly-rated local and provincial newscasts on CHBC and Global BC respectively. However, the two stations' schedules and advertising are virtually identical, including local news outside of the supper hour. More specifically, CHBC simulcasts Global BC's programming at all times, with the following exceptions:
On July 7, 2010, CHBC introduced a new virtual studio controlled out of Vancouver. The station dropped its E! era newscast graphics and replaced them with the Global O&O graphics, although newscasts are still referred to as "CHBC News".
With the addition of the virtual set and HD studio cameras, CHBC broadcasted its first newscast in HD on Shaw Cable 211 on July 6, 2011. During the cutbacks in 2009, CHBC lost its live news gathering abilities in Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton and its 5:00 p.m. newscast. However, these resources along with the 5:00 p.m. newscast returned on July 11, 2011.
The station also previously aired a weekly half-hour program dedicated to things happening around the Okanagan called Okanagan Now. This program was canceled following layoffs at the station in September 2009.
Weather
Reporters
.
The station must begin broadcasting in digital before August 31, 2016, as part of Shaw's benefit package of acquiring Canwest. CHBC-TV's digital broadcasts will be allocated VHF channel 8.
Kelowna
Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
owned by Shaw Media
Shaw Media
Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...
. It transmits on channel 2, and cable channel 4, and broadcasts on 18 relay stations.
A former CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
affiliate
Network affiliate
In the broadcasting industry , a network affiliate is a local broadcaster which carries some or all of the television program or radio program line-up of a television or radio network, but is owned by a company other than the owner of the network...
and later an E! owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
(O&O), as of August 31, 2009 the station carries programming from the Global Television Network
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
, branded as Global Okanagan. The station continues to air local news under the title CHBC News.
As a CBC affiliate
CHBC went on the air on September 21, 1957, as a CBC affiliate. It covered the central Okanagan Valley on channel 2 with 3,700 watts from its main studios and transmitter in Kelowna. The station was founded by three local radio stations: CKOVCKOV-FM
CKQQ-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format branded as 'the Q or Q103•1' went live at 5 PM February 3, 2010 to the Sheryl Crow song "Change" with a commercial-free music "sampler". It officially relaunched on February 8, 2010 at 5:30 AM with the morning show...
Kelowna, CKOK
CKOR (AM)
CKOR is a Canadian radio station in Penticton, British Columbia. Astral Media owns the station, which operates at 800 AM with 10,000 watts of transmission power in the daytime and 500 watts at night, and airs an adult contemporary music format under the EZ Rock brand.-History:CKOR was first signed...
Penticton and CJIB
CKIZ-FM
CKIZ-FM is a Canadian radio station in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, airing an adult contemporary format at 107.5 FM branded as 107.5 Kiss FM....
Vernon
Vernon, British Columbia
Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...
. Due to the mountainous terrain of the area, repeaters were begun a few weeks later in Vernon (on channel 7 with 310 watts) and Penticton (on channel 13 with 300 watts).
To begin with, only 500 homes in the area had television receivers, but that amount rose to 10,000 the following year. The station had ordered two studio cameras, but due to the number of TV stations starting in North America in that period, the station had to make do with one camera on loan for a year until the order was filled. They also relied on 16 mm film which was developed first by a local photo lab, and then again in-house.
In 1960, the station began receiving programs from the CBC via its microwave link. Prior to this, all network programs were received on kinescope and 16 mm film, with regular shows airing a week later after they were aired on the main stations, and the National News aired a day after. Local programs and ads were produced live to air. Programs produced locally in the early days included Kids Bids, The Three R's, Romper Room
Romper Room
Romper Room is a children's television series that ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as at various times in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom...
, Let's Visit, Midday, Focus and Okanagan Magazine.
In 1964, CHBC received its first video tape machine, which aided the production of locally produced programming and commercials. Two years later, colour television arrived via the network, and the station gradually installed more equipment for colour production and transmission, as well as telecine and videotape.
In the late 1960s, CHBC and Kamloops' CBC affiliate CFJC
CFJC-TV
CFJC-TV is a television station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, that is owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group. It is an affiliate of Rogers Media's Citytv system....
formed BCI-TV, an internal company headed by CHBC for programming and sales of the combined Okanagan/Kamloops markets. The national sales were delegated to All Canada Sales, and they sold the two stations' advertising as a single unit under the name "BCI TV". For years, both stations carried virtually identical programming schedules apart from local news.
In 1970, Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
's BCTV
CHAN-TV
CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...
came to an agreement with CHBC to provide a CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
service to the area, via a protective service, which protected local advertisers from Vancouver advertisers with cut-ins on the second station. In 1971, full conversion to colour was completed when a colour studio camera was purchased.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the ownership of the station changed, beginning with the purchase of CKOK's one-third ownership by general manager Roy Chapman, which he later sold to BCTV. Selkirk Communications
Selkirk Communications
Selkirk Communications was a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which operated from 1959 to 1989. Evolving out of Taylor, Pearson & Carson, a local broadcaster in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company grew to own 14 radio stations, six television stations and cable television...
brought CJIB, and along with it, its 33% stake. CKOV sold its stake in equal parts to both BCTV and Selkirk, which resulted in a 50/50 ownership structure. When Maclean-Hunter
Maclean-Hunter
Maclean-Hunter was a Canadian communications company, which had diversified holdings in radio, television, magazines, newspapers and cable television distribution....
took over Selkirk in 1989, Western International Communications
Western International Communications
WIC Western International Communications Ltd.The apparent occurrence of "RAS syndrome" here was in fact part of the company's legal name. was a Canadian media company that operated from 1982 to 2000, with operations including broadcast and specialty television, radio, and satellite distribution via...
(WIC) (BCTV's parent company) purchased Selkirk's stake to take full control of CHBC.
In 1987, President and General Manager Ron Evans spearheaded a campaign wherein the station become known as "The Okanagan's Very Own CHBC" in order to compete with the forty television signals being distributed by cable operators in the market. As a result, more local programs and commercials were produced, and involvement in the 55 communities served by CHBC was increased. This commitment has been recognized and rewarded by improved ratings and many industry awards and CHBC was often held-up as a Canadian model for its ability to identify with the community it serves during this era.
In 1998, the Griffiths family's stake in WIC was sold to Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
and Canwest. After months of negotiation, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the split of WIC's assets between Canwest, Corus Radio and Shaw Communications. CHBC was sold to Canwest in 2000, along with its sister station BCTV. When Canwest acquired CHBC, it assumed the same role in selling advertising and providing programming, primarily from its CH service.
As a CH/E! O&O
In the mid-2000s, the CBC notified CHBC that it did not intend to renew its affiliation agreement with the station after it expired in August 2005. In response, the station applied to the CRTC in 2004 to disaffiliate from the CBC; approval was given on February 28, 2005. CBUTCBUT
CBUT-DT is the CBC's television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the flagship CBC Television station for the Pacific Time Zone. The station transmits its main terrestrial signal from a tower atop Mount Seymour....
, the CBC's Vancouver O&O, subsequently added a new transmitter in Kelowna on channel 45. After its BCI-TV partner CFJC-TV received a similar approval to disaffiliate from the CBC, both stations changed affiliations on February 27, 2006 and continued the operation of BCI-TV with new programs supplied from Canwest's secondary CH television system
Television system
A television system is a Canadian term for a group of television stations which share common ownership, branding, and programming, but are not considered a full television network....
.
CHBC was the only Canwest-owned CH station to not use the CH brand on-air, opting to brand using its call letters instead, with its newscasts titled CHBC News. The local newscast branding remained following CH's rebrand to E! in 2007.
In November 2008, CHBC announced its newscasts would no longer be produced at its studios in Kelowna. The newscast would use a virtual studio at CHEK Victoria
CHEK-TV
CHEK-DT, channel 6.1, is a television station based in Victoria, British Columbia and broadcasting to all of southwestern BC...
and will be produced by Global BC. In addition, the noon newscast would be cancelled. The decision to move the anchor job to Victoria was later reversed due to viewer complaints to the station. The half-hour 11 p.m. newscast would later be extended to a full hour to make up for the loss of the half-hour noon newscast, while the 5 p.m. news began with a half hour lifestyle newscast anchored by Doris Janssen.
As a Global O&O
On February 5, 2009, Canwest announced it would explore "strategic options", including possible sale, for CHBC and its other E! stations, saying "a second conventional TV network is no longer key to the long-term success" of the company. Although for a time it was thought that CHBC might be closed, Canwest ultimately decided to add CHBC to the Global network as of August 31, 2009. That network was already available in the Okanagan through CHAN-TVCHAN-TV
CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...
(Global BC), which has operated a semi-satellite, CHKL-TV on channel 5, in the region since the early 1980s.
For the foreseeable future, it is expected that both stations will continue to operate separately, due to the highly-rated local and provincial newscasts on CHBC and Global BC respectively. However, the two stations' schedules and advertising are virtually identical, including local news outside of the supper hour. More specifically, CHBC simulcasts Global BC's programming at all times, with the following exceptions:
- The local programming discussed below
- Global NationalGlobal NationalGlobal National is the national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Dawna Friesen anchors the program's weekday edition from the Global BC studios; Robin Gill currently anchors the weekend edition...
airs at 6:00 p.m. on CHBC, instead of 5:30 p.m. on Global BC - Various animated sitcoms simulcastSimultaneous substitutionSimultaneous substitution is a practice mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requiring Canadian cable, direct broadcast satellite and multichannel multipoint distribution service television distribution companies to substitute the signal of a foreign or...
on FoxFox Broadcasting CompanyFox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
air Sundays at 7:00pm, in place of newsmagazine 16:916:9 (TV series)16x9 is a Canadian investigative newsmagazine television program which airs on Global. The series debuted on November 30, 2008...
On July 7, 2010, CHBC introduced a new virtual studio controlled out of Vancouver. The station dropped its E! era newscast graphics and replaced them with the Global O&O graphics, although newscasts are still referred to as "CHBC News".
With the addition of the virtual set and HD studio cameras, CHBC broadcasted its first newscast in HD on Shaw Cable 211 on July 6, 2011. During the cutbacks in 2009, CHBC lost its live news gathering abilities in Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton and its 5:00 p.m. newscast. However, these resources along with the 5:00 p.m. newscast returned on July 11, 2011.
News operation
Currently, CHBC has three daily newscasts, consisting of one hourly early evening newscast weeknights at 5:00 p.m., one half-hour late evening newscast weeknights at 6:30 p.m. and an hourly-long late night newscast weeknights at 11:00 p.m. anchored by Rick Webber, Klaudia Ceglarz and Jonathan Glasgow respectively. CHBC also airs half-hour newscasts at 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday nights, anchored by Doris Janssen. This totals 15.5 hours per week of original, local programming produced at CHBC. CHBC was previously airing 22.5 hours per week of local programming until September 2009. The minimum amount of local programming currently required by the station's licence as of 2009 is seven hours per week.The station also previously aired a weekly half-hour program dedicated to things happening around the Okanagan called Okanagan Now. This program was canceled following layoffs at the station in September 2009.
News team
Anchors- Klaudia Ceglarz - weeknights at 6:30 p.m.
- Doris Janssen - weekends at 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m.
- Toby Tannas - weeknights at 11 p.m.
- Rick Webber - weeknights at 5 p.m.
Weather
- Mike Roberts - Lead weather anchor; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m.
- Sonia Sidhu - Substitute weather anchor
Reporters
- Tracy Kim Bonneau - Native correspondent
- Klaudia Ceglarz
- Blaine Gaffney
- Doirs Janssen
- April Lawrence - South Okanagan reporter
- Barry McDivitt
- Cort Smith - North Okanagan reporter
- Julia Wong
Transmitters
| Station | City of license City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... |
Channel Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... |
ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... |
Transmitter Coordinates |
| CHBC-TV-1 | Penticton | 13 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.54 kW | 365 m | 49°39′34"N 119°34′22"W |
| CHBC-TV-2 | Vernon Vernon, British Columbia Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while... |
7 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.62 kW | 184 m | 50°16′58"N 119°19′13"W |
| CHBC-TV-3 | Oliver Oliver, British Columbia Oliver is a community at the south end of the Okanagan Valley in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, with a population of 4370. The community of Oliver is made up of land governed by three different bodies: the Town of Oliver, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and the... |
8 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.22 kW | -76 m | 49°6′0"N 119°34′49"W |
| CHBC-TV-4 | Salmon Arm Salmon Arm, British Columbia -Climate:- Education :Public schools in Salmon Arm are part of School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap; within the city limits, there are currently five elementary schools , one middle school , and a secondary school with two campuses... |
9 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.486 kW | -302.8 m | 50°45′22"N 119°20′1"W |
| CHBC-TV-5 | Enderby Enderby, British Columbia The City of Enderby is in the North Okanagan of the Canadian province of British Columbia, between Armstrong and Salmon Arm. It is approximately 80 km north of Kelowna and 130 km east of Kamloops... |
16 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
2.4 kW | -220.1 m | 50°33′56"N 119°6′7"W |
| CHBC-TV-6 | Celista Celista, British Columbia Celista is a small community located along the north shore of Shuswap Lake in British Columbia, Canada.The local school is North Shuswap Elementary school, which has grades one to seven and has an annual enrolement of just over 100 students.... |
3 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.009 kW | NA | 50°57′12"N 119°24′14"W |
| CHBC-TV-7 | Penticton | 7 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.005 kW | NA | 49°31′30"N 119°38′19"W |
| CHBC-TV-8 | Canoe Canoe, British Columbia Canoe, British Columbia, is a small semi-rural community within the larger City of Salmon Arm just off the Trans Canada Highway. The community lies on the south side of Shuswap Lake, east of the city centre... |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.009 kW | NA | 50°43′45"N 119°12′39"W |
| CHBC-TV-9 | Apex Mountain | 13 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.001 kW | NA | 49°21′34"N 119°54′34"W |
Digital television and high definition
CHBC-TV has not yet begun broadcasting in digital and, as the only in-market originating station, was not required to do so as part of the August 31, 2011 analogue television shutdownDigital television in Canada
Digital television in Canada is transmitted using the ATSC standards developed for and in use in the United States. Because Canada and the U.S...
.
The station must begin broadcasting in digital before August 31, 2016, as part of Shaw's benefit package of acquiring Canwest. CHBC-TV's digital broadcasts will be allocated VHF channel 8.