CHNB-DT
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Saint John, New Brunswick Canada |
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| Branding | Global New Brunswick |
| Channels |
Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 12.1 () 1080i Virtual: 12.2 (PSIP) 480p |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | Global |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment |
| First air date | September 5, 1988 April 15, 2013 (as Global New Brunswick) |
| Call letters' meaning | CH New Brunswick |
| Sister station(s) | CIHF-DT |
| Former callsigns | CIHF-TV-2 (1988-2011) CIHF-DT-2 (2011-2013) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 12 (1988-2011) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1988-1997) |
| Transmitter power | 6 kW |
| Height | 354.0 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°28′40″N 66°14′0″W / 45.47778°N 66.23333°W |
| Website | Global New Brunswick |
CHNB-DT (branded on-air as Global New Brunswick) is the Global owned-and-operated television station, serving New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that is licensed to Saint John, New Brunswick. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 12. Often time the station is viewed on channel 198 on Bell TV where the province has no local Global station.
Owned by Corus Entertainment, it is a sister station to CIHF-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is operated out of CIHF's studios on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax.
The station was launched on September 5, 1988 as CIHF-TV-2, owned by the Irving family's New Brunswick Broadcasting Company, which also owned CHSJ-TV, the CBC affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station launched with three transmitters, namely those in Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton. When MITV launched, the station took all primetime American shows from CHSJ—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all primetime American programming nationwide.
It was closely tied with sister station CIHF-TV in Halifax. Both shared the same branding, MITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, despite the New Brunswick station's rebroadcaster-like callsign, the stations were separately licensed by the CRTC. At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
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