CJCH-DT

CJCH-DT is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media. The station maintains studios on Robie and Russell streets in Halifax, and its transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.
CJCH-DT is the flagship of the CTV Atlantic regional system, producing all of the system's programming except for some commercials and local news inserts on the other stations.

WWW Official Site

History

CJCH-TV first went on the air on January 1, 1961, as an independent station, and it became one of the original CTV stations when the network began operations on October 1, 1961. CHUM Limited sold CJCH-TV along with ATV and the Atlantic Satellite Network to Baton Broadcasting on February 26, 1997, but kept CJCH radio. CTVglobemedia's acquisition of CHUM Limited on June 22, 2007, brought CJCH-TV and CJCH radio back under common ownership.

Notable former on-air staff

Gord Martineau – brief stay before heading to Citytv flagship station CITY-DT in Toronto
Steve Murphy – weeknight anchor

Technical information

Analogue-to-digital conversion

The station ceased broadcasting in analogue on August 31, 2011, and began broadcasting in digital on the same date.

Repeaters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter coordinates
CJCH-TV-1	Canning	10	18.1 kW	270 m
CJCH-TV-5	Sheet Harbour	2	1.5 kW	70.7 m
CJCH-DT-7	Yarmouth	26 40	1.01 kW	163 m

On February 11, 2016, Bell Media applied for its regular license renewals, which included applications to delete a long list of transmitters, including CJCH-TV-2 and CJCH-TV-8. Bell Media's rationale for deleting these analog repeaters is below:

"We are electing to delete these analog transmitters from the main licence with which they are associated. These analog transmitters generate no incremental revenue, attract little to no viewership given the growth of BDU or DTH subscriptions and are costly to maintain, repair or replace. In addition, none of the highlighted transmitters offer any programming that differs from the main channels. The Commission has determined that broadcasters may elect to shut down transmitters but will lose certain regulatory privileges as noted in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015–24, Over-the-air transmission of television signals and local programming. We are fully aware of the loss of these regulatory privileges as a result of any transmitter shutdown."

At the same time, Bell Media applied to convert the licenses of CTV2 Atlantic and CTV2 Alberta from satellite-to-cable undertakings into television stations without transmitters, and to reduce the level of educational content on CTV2 Alberta.
On July 30, 2019, Bell Media was granted permission to close down two additional transmitters as part of Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-268. The transmitters for CJCH-TV-3 and CJCH-TV-4 will be shut down by December 3, 2021. On January 29, 2025, Bell Media was granted permission to close down CJCH-TV-6 as part of Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-29.

Former repeaters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter coordinates
CJCH-TV-2	Truro	12	0.008 kW	NA
CJCH-TV-3	Valley	12	0.008 kW	NA
CJCH-TV-4^*	Bridgetown	13	0.008 kW	NA
CJCH-TV-6	Caledonia	6	100 kW	192.9 m
CJCH-TV-8	Marinette	23	0.01 kW	NA

^* The Bridgetown transmitter was among a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Canada.