CJBR-TV

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CJBR-TV (satellite of CBVT, Quebec City, Quebec)
Rimouski, Quebec
Branding	Radio-Canada Québec
Slogan	Ici comme dans la vie
Channels	2 (VHF) / Cable 3 analog,  ?? digital
Affiliations	Radio-Canada
Owner	Societé Radio-Canada
Founded	November 21, 1954
Call letters meaning	Canada Jules Brillant Rimouski
Website	Radio-Canada Bas-St-Laurent

CJBR-TV channel 2 (also known unofficially as CJBRT) is a repeater in Rimouski, Quebec for Quebec City Radio-Canada station CBVT.

[edit] History

CJBR first signed on on November 21, 1954, as a privately owned Radio-Canada affiliate owned by Lower St. Lawrence Radio Inc. and associated with Central Public Service Corp. Ltd., both companies owned by the family of Jules Brillant, who also owned CJBR radio.

The Brillants would sell CJBR radio and TV to Telemedia in 1970, who, in turn, would sell the stations to Radio-Canada in August 1977, one of two private television stations in Quebec to be acquired by Radio-Canada (the other being CKBL-TV, which was renamed CBGAT) during the 1970s.

CJBR switched from channel 3 to channel 2 in 1984, but the Maritimes Edition of TV Guide still had it listed as channel 3 until the Maritimes Edition folded in 2005. CJBR, however, is seen on Cogeco cable channel 3 in the Rimouski area. [2], [3]

CJBR originally provided its own newscast, local programming and local ads for Rimouski viewers, but they were discontinued sometime in the 1990s, when it became a full rebroadcaster of CBVT, due to unpopular budget cuts.

[edit] Pictures

Copyright for a CJBRT newscast in 1987, captured from Macomb, Illinois. [1]

[edit] See also

• CJBR-FM
• CBVT