| CBAT-TV | |
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| Saint John/Fredericton, New Brunswick | |
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada's Own |
| Channels | Analog: 4 (VHF) Digital: no |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | CBC |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Call letters’ meaning | CBC Atlantic Television |
| Former callsigns | CHSJ-TV (1954-94) |
| Former affiliations | None |
| Website | CBC NB |
CBAT-TV is the call sign for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) television station in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Saint John is the largest city in the Province of New Brunswick, and the oldest incorporated city in Canada. Fredericton (pronounced ˈfrɛdrɨktɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by virtue of the provincial A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and Video to Television receivers in a particular area Fredericton (pronounced ˈfrɛdrɨktɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by virtue of the provincial The station's main transmitter is on Mount Champlain near Saint John (where the station is licenced, broadcasting terrestrially on channel 4. Saint John is the largest city in the Province of New Brunswick, and the oldest incorporated city in Canada. A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting is the community that a Radio station or Television station
Transmitters of the station are shown below, with stations in bold as semi-satellites.
| Town/Location | Callsign | Channel | Power (kW) | Notes |
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| Fredericton, New Brunswick | CBAT-TV | 4 | 100 | Main station, also covers Saint John
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| Bon Accord | CBAT-TV-1 | 6 | 100 | Near Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
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| Moncton, New Brunswick | CBAT-TV-2 | 7 | 325 | Formerly CHMT-TV. Fredericton (pronounced ˈfrɛdrɨktɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by virtue of the provincial Perth-Andover (2006 population 1797 is a Canadian village in Victoria County, New Brunswick. Moncton ( is a Canadian city located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. Covers eastern New Brunswick
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| Miramichi, New Brunswick | CBAT-TV-3 | 6 | 12. Miramichi is the largest city in northern New Brunswick, Canada. 76 | formerly CHCN-TV, and formerly licenced to Chatham, New Brunswick
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| Campbellton, New Brunswick | CBAT-TV-4 | 4 | 25. Chatham is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick. Campbellton (2006 population 7384 is a Canadian city in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. 12 | Formerly CHCD-TV. Also serves Edmundston, New Brunswick
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| Doaktown, New Brunswick | CBAT-TV-5 | 8 | 0. Edmundston (2006 population 16643 is a Canadian city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick. Doaktown (2006 population 888 is a Canadian village in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. 008 | |
| Boiestown, New Brunswick | CBAT-TV-6 | 13 | 0. Boiestown (1991 population 349 is a Canadian rural community in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. 009 |
For the station's entire existence, it has broadcast CBC programming. It first went on the air on March 22, 1954 as CHSJ-TV, owned by the New Brunswick Broadcasting Co. and located in Saint John. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) New Brunswick Broadcasting Company Limited was a Canadian media holding company based in Saint John New Brunswick. Its network of rebroadcasters was built up between 1961 and 1978. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar)
CBC bought the station in 1994, recalled it as CBAT, and relocated its studios to Fredericton. New Brunswick was the last province without an owned-and-operated CBC station; although CBC's Fredericton and Moncton studios produced programming for CHSJ as early as the 1970s. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. CHSJ's pre-emptions of large blocks of CBC programming, forcing an entire province to miss several of CBC's most well-known shows, was the subject of complaints to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which mandated that CHSJ clear the minimum block of CBC programming in 1988. CRTC may also stand for Cathode Ray Tube Controller. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, in French Conseil
The flagship 6:00 p. m. newscast has been broadcast from Fredericton since the 1980s, first as the CBC News for New Brunswick, then later as NB Now until the national restructuring of CBC local news led to the creation of Canada Now (now called CBC News at Six). Canada Now (more formally CBC News Canada Now) was the early-evening national news program aired on CBC Television, the main English CBC News at Six is the name used for most of CBC Television 's local television newscasts airing weeknights at 6 p The current local anchor on CBAT is Todd Battis. Past anchors have included Andy Wilson, Terry Seguin, Carole MacNeil, Geoff Britt, and Anita Sharma. Andrew Wilson could refer to Andrew Wilson (actor (born 1964 US actor Andrew Wilson (footballer (1880-1945 Scottish footballer Carole MacNeil (born 2 February 1964 in Antigonish Nova Scotia) is a Television Journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Weathercaster Rose Arseneault was popular with viewers until she lost her job due to budget cutbacks in 2000. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
In 2003 CBAT made a controversial programming decision by pre-empting CBC's broadcast of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals in order to carry live returns from a provincial election. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley is an Ice hockey club championship Trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL playoffs champion Starting out as a predicted landslide for Bernard Lord 's Progressive Conservatives, the New Brunswick general election of June 9 2003 quickly turned around
For reasons unknown, despite there being no radio station using "CBAT", and the CBC's preference for television call signs that do not use the "-TV" suffix, the Fredericton station is indeed listed in Industry Canada's database as "CBAT-TV", not "CBAT".
Coverage
The station is also carried on cable across the border in Maine, particularly in the cities of Presque Isle, Bangor and Houlton, Maine, as well as in Washington County, Maine. The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean Presque Isle is the commercial center and largest city in the sparsely populated Aroostook County, Maine, United States. Bangor is the County seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine Houlton is a town in Aroostook County Maine, on the United States-Canada border located at. Washington County is a County located in the US state of Maine.
Logos
 CHSJ ident from the mid-1980s. |
 CBAT NB Now logo from the late 1990s. |
External links
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