CHMG-TV is a local community channel in Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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. It broadcasts on channel 9 and is on Vidéotron

Vidéotron

Vidéotron GP is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services. Currently, the company primarily serves Quebec, as well as the francophone...

 cable

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 channel 10. It is known as "Télé-Mag", which is a portmanteau of "television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

" and "magazine

Magazine

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".

The station's studios are located on Jean-Perrin Street, along Autoroutes 40

Quebec Autoroute 40

Autoroute 40 is a major highway on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. It is one of the two main connections between Montreal and Quebec City...

/73

Quebec Autoroute 73

Autoroute 73 is an important Autoroute in east-central Quebec, Canada...

 in Les Rivières, with its transmitter at Place de la Cité in Sainte-Foy.

Télé-Mag first broadcast in 1987 as cable-only "Télé-Plus 24"; it was renamed "Télé-Mag 24" in 1994. The "24" in the name represented the cable channel position at the time, on channel 24; it has since moved to channel 10.

In August 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted Télé-Mag a low-power terrestrial broadcast licence on channel 9, under the calls CHMG-TV. Broadcasting only at 38 watt

Watt

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s, the broadcast station launched on October 20, 2005.

Digital television and high definition

The station began broadcasting in high-definition

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 in December 2010.

There are no information concerning CHMG-TV towards the analogue television shutdown and digital conversion

Digital 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...

, which takes place on August 31, 2011.