CHEX-DT
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Peterborough, Ontario Canada |
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| Branding | CHEX Peterborough |
| Channels |
Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 12 () |
| Translators | 4 CHEX-TV-1 Bancroft |
| Affiliations | CTV, Global (news only) |
| Owner |
Corus Entertainment (591989 B.C. Ltd.) |
| First air date | March 25, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | CH Peterborough EXaminer (former owner, local newspaper) |
| Sister station(s) |
CKRU-FM CKWF-FM |
| Former callsigns | CHEX-TV (1955–2013) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 12 (VHF, 1955–2013) |
| Former affiliations | CBC Television (1955–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 20 kW |
| Height | 316.5 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°19′42″N 78°17′58″W / 44.32833°N 78.29944°W |
| Licensing authority | CRTC |
| Website | CHEX Television |
CHEX-DT, VHF analogue and digital channel 12.1, is a CTV affiliate owned by Corus Entertainment. CHEX maintains studio facilities located on Monaghan Road (near Rose Avenue) in the southern portion of Peterborough, and its transmitter is located on Television Hill, just outside Peterborough.
CHEX is available on Cogeco Cable channel 2 in standard definition and digital channel 902 in high definition; Shaw Direct channel 48 on the advanced tier and channel 348 on the classic tier; and Bell TV channel 217.
CHEX began airing CTV programming on August 31, 2015 under a programming supply agreement, terminating its relationship with the CBC after 60 years.
The station signed on the air on March 26, 1955 as an independently-owned affiliate of CBC Television; its inaugural broadcast was a National Hockey League ice hockey game. CHEX was founded by a media partnership that already published the Peterborough Examiner newspaper and owned radio station CHEX (now CKRU). The partnership included politician Rupert Davies, who was also involved in a similar arrangement in Kingston that established CKWS-TV. The Davies family sold its media interests to Power Corporation of Canada in 1976. On April 13, 2000, the station was acquired by Canadian media conglomerate Corus Entertainment.
For decades, cable systems in Peterborough have carried CBC flagship CBLT in Toronto alongside CHEX. Due to this unique situation, CHEX-TV was frequently used during Hockey Night in Canada to air alternate games. During the 1970s and 1980s, CHEX would often air games from the Montreal Canadiens over the geographically closer Toronto Maple Leafs. During the 2000s and early 2010s, CHEX was also used by the CBC as an overflow channel for its regional coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs—in the event of scheduling conflicts between games in series which CBC held rights to, the game of greater national interest would be carried across the network, while the other game would be carried exclusively by CHEX, and simulcast on the CBC Sports website. This practice ended following the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs, as the CBC's rights are now sub-licensed from Rogers Communications and any conflicting games are reassigned to other Rogers-owned channels.
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