CBHT

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CBHT
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Branding	CBC Nova Scotia
Channels	3 (VHF) analog
Translators	CBIT (5, VHF), Sydney
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Founded	December 20, 1954
Call letters meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Halifax Television
Website	CBC NS

CBHT is the flagship station of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 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.

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 Logos 2 Personalities 2.1 First Edition 3 Rebroadcast Transmitters 4 External links

[edit] Logos

Early CBHT logo

CBHT logo from 1986 to 1992

Present CBHT logo, used from 2001

[edit] Personalities

[edit] First Edition

• Frank Cameron
• Parker Barss Donham
• Rob Gordon
• Harry Flemming
• Linda Kelly
• Susan Ormiston
• Norma Lee MacLeod
• Jim Nunn
• Doug Saunders

[edit] Rebroadcast Transmitters

The station also has rebroadcast transmitters in the following communities:

• Liverpool - 12 - 2 kW
• Shelburne - 7 - 38 kW
• Yarmouth - 11 - 38 kW
• Sheet Harbour - 11 - 18 kW
• New Glasgow - 4 - 1kW
• Middleton - 8 - 42 kW
• Digby - 52
• Truro - 55 - 14 kW
• Caledonia - 2 - 600W
• Weymouth - 24 - 100 kW
• Mulgrave - 12 - 129 kW
• Lochaber - 33 - 100 kW
• Goshen - 2 - 9kW
• Aspen - 5 - 95 kW
• Country Harbour Mines -6 - 9 kW
• Sherbrooke - 4 - 9 kW
• Sunnybrae -6 - 9 kW
• Blue Mountain -5 - 9 kW
• Garden of Eden -17 - 100 kW

[edit] External links

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