CBHT

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CBHT
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	Canada's Own
Channels	Analog: 3 (VHF)
Affiliations	CBC Television
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	December 20, 1954
Call letters’ meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Halifax Television
Transmitter Power	100 kW
Height	270 m
Transmitter Coordinates	44°39′2.8″N, 63°39′25.5″W
Website	www.cbc.ca/ns

CBHT is the flagship station of CBC Television in the Atlantic Time Zone. CBHT broadcasts on terrestrial channel 3 at 100 kW and cable channel 11 in the Halifax metro area. The CBC network schedule, outside of live events, is carried one hour in advance of Toronto on CBHT.

CBHT started broadcasting on December 20, 1954, entered CBC's microwave network in 1958, and began colour programming in 1966. On September 26, 1972, CBHT put its Sydney rebroadcaster CBIT on the air, when CHUM Limited purchased incumbent local station CJCB. CBIT broadcasts on terrestrial channel 5 and local cable channel 3. CBIT had its own newscast until 1991, when it was cancelled and replaced with CBHT's First Edition.

CBHT eventually covered all of Nova Scotia with rebroadcast transmitters. The tower in the Halifax on Geiser’s Hill (called the CBC tower) is also used by CTV's CJCH-TV, Global's CIHF-TV, most local FM broadcast radio stations and other services. In 2000, its local newscast, "First Edition", was cancelled and replaced with Canada Now, anchored in Halifax by Norma Lee MacLeod. Now again there is a newscast for Nova Scotia broadcasted, hosted by Jim Nunn.

During the early 1980s, CBHT was known simply as "Maritimes CBC".

Programs produced at CBHT include Don Messer's Jubilee, Street Cents, Switchback, Land and Sea, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Mary Walsh: Open Book.

Contents 1 Personalities 1.1 First Edition 2 Rebroadcast Transmitters 3 External links

[edit] Personalities

[edit] First Edition

• Frank Cameron
• Parker Barss Donham
• Harry Flemming
• Rob Gordon
• Linda Kelly
• Norma Lee MacLeod
• Jim Nunn
• Dan O'Connell
• Doug Saunders
• Paul Withers

[edit] Rebroadcast Transmitters

The station also has rebroadcast transmitters in the following communities (semi-satellites in bold)

Town/location	Callsign	Channel	Power	Coordinates	Notes
Halifax, Nova Scotia	CBHT	3	100	44°38′46.9″N, 63°39′38.5″W	Main Station
Liverpool, Nova Scotia	CBHT-1	12	1.952	44°3′56.2″N, 64°43′1.9″W
Shelburne, Nova Scotia	CBHT-2	7	37.8	43°46′33.5″N, 65°18′28.7″W
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia	CBHT-3	11	38.4	43°55′55.1″N, 66°6′10.7″W
Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia	CBHT-4	11	17.8	44°55′29.9″N, 62°29′56.4″W
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia	CBHT-5	4	0.857	45°31′58.7″N, 62°38′13.1″W
Middleton, Nova Scotia	CBHT-6	8	42.4	45°4′37.1″N, 64°49′1.1″W
Digby, Nova Scotia	CBHT-7	52	9.05	44°40′33.5″N, 65°44′2.4″W
Truro, Nova Scotia	CBHT-8	55	13.9	45°27′10.7″N, 63°17′20.3″W
Caledonia, Nova Scotia	CBHT-9	2	0.609	44°22′26.3″N, 65°2′13.2″W
Weymouth, Nova Scotia	CBHT-10	24	0.1	44°25′49.6″N, 66°1′5.2″W
Mulgrave, Nova Scotia	CBHT-11	12	258	45°35′55.7″N, 61°24′47″W
Lochaber, Nova Scotia	CBHT-12	33	0.1	45°23′29.9″N, 62°3′56.9″W
Goshen, Nova Scotia	CBHT-13	2	0.009	45°23′29.9″N, 61°57′4″W
Aspen, Nova Scotia	CBHT-14	5	0.442	45°14′38.3″N, 62°1′40.7″W
Country Harbour, Nova Scotia	CBHT-15	6	0.009	45°13′59.8″N, 61°47′44.4″W
Sherbooke, Nova Scotia	CBHT-16	4	0.009	45°9′27.9″N, 61°57′38″W
Sunnybrae, Nova Scotia	CBHT-17	6	0.009	45°23′45.9″N, 62°31′5.9″W
Blue Mountain, Nova Scotia	CBHT-18	5	0.009	45°29′4.9″N, 62°26′25.9″W
Garden of Eden, Nova Scotia	CBHT-19	17	0.1	45°24′1.5″N, 62°17′23″W
Sydney, Nova Scotia	CBIT	5	100	46°5′39.9″N, 60°8′54.9″W
Chéticamp, Nova Scotia	CBIT-2	2	7.35	46°34′40.9″N, 60°59′3.9″W
Pleasant Bay, Nova Scotia	CBIT-3	8	0.009	46°49′47.9″N, 60°47′13.9″W
Mabou, Nova Scotia	CBIT-4	10	0.009	46°3′4″N, 61°27′0″W
Margaree, Nova Scotia	CBIT-5	11	0.01	46°22′55.9″N, 61°4′5.9″W
Northeast Margaree, Nova Scotia	CBIT-6	13	0.009	46°19′4.9″N, 60°58′0″W
Ingonish, Nova Scotia	CBIT-15	2	0.009	46°38′21.9″N, 60°23′58″W
Dingwall, Nova Scotia	CBIT-16	12	0.137	46°54′42.8″N, 60°30′19″W
Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia	CBIT-17	13	0.009	46°58′34.4″N, 60°27′31.9″W
Whycocomaugh, Nova Scotia	CBIT-18	10	0.009	45°58′22.9″N, 61°6′21.9″W
Inverness, Nova Scotia	CBIT-19	8	1.6	46°6′7.8″N, 61°17′19.7″W
Middle River, Nova Scotia	CBIT-20	9	0.01	46°8′5.5″N, 60°53′34.9″W

[edit] External links

• CBC Nova Scotia
• mcsittel.com -- includes screengrabs of CBHT from the mid-1980s, picked up in Kingsport, Tennessee

Coordinates: 44°38′47.7″N, 63°35′13.9″W

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