CHBX-TV
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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada |
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| Branding |
CTV Northern Ontario CTV News Northern Ontario (newscasts) |
| Slogan | News for the North |
| Channels |
Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: allocated 11 (VHF) |
| Translators | 7 CHBX-TV-1 Wawa |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | November 5, 1977 |
| Former callsigns | CKCY-TV (1977-1985) |
| Transmitter power |
CHBX-TV: 100 kW CHBX-TV-1: 66.4 kW |
| Height |
CHBX-TV: 182.9 m CHBX-TV-1: 163.7 m |
| Transmitter coordinates |
CHBX-TV: 46°35′42″N 84°21′3″W / 46.59500°N 84.35083°W CHBX-TV-1: 48°1′13″N 84°45′0″W / 48.02028°N 84.75000°W |
| Website | CTV Sault Ste. Marie |
CHBX-TV is the CTV owned-and-operated television station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada that is part of the network's CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts an analogue signal on VHF channel 2 from a transmitter near its studios on 6 Line East (just east of Peoples Road) in Sault Ste. Marie. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 11.
The station's signal also reaches the eastern portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and can be seen over-the-air as far south as Gaylord, Michigan. It is carried on Charter in St. Ignace on Channel 2, however, it is not seen on Charter in Sault Ste. Marie. CHBX essentially operates as a de facto semi-satellite of CICI in Sudbury, running the same programming as that station at all times (except for certain commercials and regional news inserts during its newscasts).
The station began broadcasting on November 5, 1977 as CKCY-TV. It was owned by Huron Broadcasting along with CBC affiliate CJIC-TV, and was a sister station of an AM radio outlet with the same call letters. Prior to the sign-on of CKCY, CTV programming was available in Sault Ste. Marie on cable from Sudbury's CKSO-TV (now CICI).
It adopted the current CHBX call sign in 1985, when the radio station was sold to Mid-Canada Radio. In 1990, Huron sold CHBX and its CBC twinstick CJIC-TV to Baton Broadcasting, which merged them into the MCTV system. Ironically, MCTV flagship CICI had been available on cable in the Sault for part of the 1980s; the two stations aired radically different programming at the time.
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