CHEX-DT
CHEX-DT is a television station in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the Global Television Network, a division of Corus Entertainment. The station maintains studios on Monaghan Road in the southern portion of Peterborough, and its transmitter is located on Television Hill, just outside the city.
History
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 game. CHEX was founded by a media partnership that already published The Peterborough Examiner newspaper and owned radio station CHEX. 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.Image:CHEX-TV logo.svg|200px|thumb|left|Previous logo used from 2013 to 2016. An earlier variant of the logo featured cyan and green bars instead of red.
On May 20, 2015, Corus and Bell Media announced an agreement whereby its three CBC stations would leave the public network and "affiliate" with CTV. The affiliation switch took effect on August 31, 2015. Most TV service providers serving the region already carry CBLT, and any that did not would have to add a CBC affiliate such as CBLT to their basic services in order to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regulations.
Legally, CHEX's relationship with CTV was described as a "program supply agreement", and not as an "affiliation", as Corus maintained editorial control over the stations' programming and the ability to sell local advertising, and did not delegate responsibility for CTV programs aired by the station to Bell Media. The switch was approved by the CRTC on August 27, 2015, dismissing objections by Rogers Media, and by a resident who complained that because he only received television over the air, he would lose his ability to receive CBC Television as a result of the disaffiliation.
Following the expiration of CHEX's three-year deal with CTV, the station became a Global owned-and-operated station and rebranded itself as Global Peterborough on August 27, 2018; the CHEX branding was retained for the station's newscasts.
News operation
Local newscasts, branded as CHEX News, air weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m. and at noon, and nightly at 6 and 11 p.m.In September 2016, CHEX began to replace CTV News programming with Global News programs, moving its late-night newscast to 11 p.m. to replace the CTV National News, and adding an airing of Global National. On October 24, 2016, CHEX premiered a local morning newscast known as The Morning Show, which was patterned after the program of the same name aired by CIII-DT and the Global News Morning format used in other markets.
Technical information
Subchannels
Analog-to-digital conversion
CHEX-TV began offering a high definition feed on Cogeco Cable in the Peterborough area in November 2010. The station switched its over-the-air signal from analog to digital on May 9, 2013.The CRTC has not listed Peterborough as one of its mandatory markets for analog television shutdown and digital conversion, and as a result CHEX-TV was not required to convert to digital transmissions on the transition date of August 31, 2011.