Television Stations in Rimouski - Cjbr-TV, Cfer-TV, Cjpc-TV, Civb-TV (Paperback)

Chapters: Cjbr-Tv, Cfer-Tv, Cjpc-Tv, Civb-Tv. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: CJBR-TV - 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 (today's CBAFT-2) on April 1, 1962. The Brillants would sell CJBR radio and television stations to Telemedia in 1970, who, in turn, would sell the stations to Radio-Canada on August 1, 1977. CJBR switched from channel 3 to channel 2 on March 12, 1984, but the Maritimes Edition of TV Guide still had it listed as channel 3 until the Maritimes Edition folded in 2005. CJBR, however, is seen on Cogeco cable channel 3 in the Rimouski area. Radiodiffusion de Matane (Matane Broadcasting) founded the station as CKBL-TV on August 19, 1958. In the beginning, the station was a semi-satellite to CJBR, and broadcast on channel 9. CKBL was linked to Radio-Canada's microwave network on November 15, 1958. By 1961, the station moved its transmitter to a new location, which took the signal off the air for around a month. From 1962 to 1976, Hydro-Quebec broadcast CKBL/CBGAT's signal on its own repeaters. Radio-Canada purchased the station on November 10, 1971, and the station received its current callsign sometime in 1972. Radio-Canada moved CBGAT's signal from channel 9 to channel 6 on November 29, 1978, where it remains to this day. Radio-Canada launched CBST as a retransmitter of CBGAT on October 23, 1973, broadcasting on channel 13 in Sept-Iles. CBST gained its own newscast on Novemb...http: //booksllc.net/?id=5427568