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CHLT-TV is the TVA owned and operated station in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
The station went on the air for the first time on August 12, 1956 as a dual affiliate of both CBC and Radio-Canada. It usually went on the air sooner than other Quebec stations, forcing it to fill the schedule with local shows.
When CKSH-TV went on the air in 1974, it took all SRC programming away from CHLT. It joined TVA later in the year after CBMT-TV in Montreal opened a translator in Sherbrooke. Five years later, Pathonic Communications acquired CHLT and four other stations. Pathonic's stations aired a schedule radically different from that offered on TVA flagship CFTM-TV in Montreal. As a result, since CHLT's over-the-air signal reaches Montreal, it was carried on CF Cable and Vidéotron in that city.
However, CFTM's owner, Télé-Metropole, bought full control of TVA in 1990, and CHLT became largely a semi-satellite of CFTM. CF Cable stopped carrying CHLT in the early 1990's, and Vidéotron followed suit in 1995. The CHLT signal also reaches northwestern Maine.
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