CHEM-DT is the TVA owned-and-operated television station in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter on Rue Principale in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.
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| Channels | |
| Branding | TVA (general) TVA Nouvelles (newscasts) |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | TVA |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Groupe TVA |
| History | |
First air date | August 29, 1976 |
Former call signs | CHEM-TV (1976–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | Analogue: 8 (VHF, 1976-2011) |
| Réseau Pathonic (1986–1990) | |
| Technical information | |
| ERP | 11.5 kW |
| HAAT | 291.5 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°30′7″N 72°38′10″W / 46.50194°N 72.63611°W |
| Links | |
| Website | TVA Trois-Rivières |
Owned by the Groupe TVA subsidiary of Quebecor Media, its studios are located on Boulevard de Chanoine-Moreau and Rue Jacques de Labadie in Trois-Rivières. This station can also be seen on Cogeco Cable channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 503.
History
editThe station was founded on August 29, 1976 and was owned by Telemedia. It was originally a semi-satellite of CHLT-TV in Sherbrooke, and has been a TVA station for its entire existence. Pathonic Communications bought CHEM and four other stations in 1979. Sometime in the 1980s, CHEM severed the electronic umbilical cord with CHLT and became a full-fledged station. Télé-Metropole, owner of TVA flagship station CFTM-TV in Montreal, bought Pathonic in 1989, and since then CHEM has essentially been a semi-satellite of CFTM.
External links
edit- TVA Trois-Rivières
- CHEM-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
- CHEM-TV in the REC Canadian station database