Rimouski, Quebec Canada |
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Branding | ICI Est du Québec |
Slogan | ICI Radio-Canada Télé, c'est ma télé |
Channels |
Digital: 45 (UHF) Virtual: 2.1 () |
Affiliations | Ici Radio-Canada Télé |
Owner | Société Radio-Canada |
First air date | November 21, 1954 |
Call letters' meaning |
Canada Jules Brillant Rimouski |
Sister station(s) | CBRX-FM, CJBR-FM |
Former callsigns | CJBR-TV (1954–2011) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analogue: 3 (1954–1984) 2 (1984–2011) |
Transmitter power | 167.54 kW |
Height | 283.4 m |
Transmitter coordinates | 48°19′40″N 68°50′7″W / 48.32778°N 68.83528°W |
Website | ICI Est du Québec |
CJBR-DT (branded on-air as ICI Est du Québec) is the Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated television station in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 45 (or virtual channel 2.1 via ) from a transmitter at Chemin du Pic Champlain (near the shoreline of the Saint Lawrence River) in Saint-Fabien.
Owned by the Société Radio-Canada arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is the main station for three regions in eastern Quebec: Bas-Saint-Laurent, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Côte-Nord. It previously operated full-power satellites in Matane (CBGAT channel 6) and Sept-Îles (CBST channel 13), and rebroadcasters in other communities. Its studios are located on Boulevard René-Lepage Est (near Rue Julien-Réhel) on Quebec Route 132 in Rimouski. This station can also be seen on TELUS Optik TV channel 3. There is a high definition feed offered on Cogeco Cable digital channel 504, Cogeco does not offer a standard definition feed of the station.
CJBR was launched on November 21, 1954, as a privately owned Radio-Canada affiliate owned by Lower St. Lawrence Radio Inc. and associated with Central Public Service Corp. Ltd., both companies owned by the family of Jules Brillant, who also owned CJBR radio. The station would later be linked to Radio-Canada's microwave network, on August 7, 1957, and would add a repeater in Edmundston, New Brunswick, CJBR-TV-1 (now CBAFT-2) on April 1, 1962.