CJCB-TV is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 television station, broadcasting in Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney is a Canadian urban community in the province of Nova Scotia. It is situated on the east coast of Cape Breton Island and is administratively part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality....

. It is an O&O of the CTV Television Network

CTV television network

CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

, through the CTV Atlantic

CTV Atlantic

CTV Atlantic is a system of four television stations in the Canadian Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media...

 regional system in the Canadian Maritimes.

It airs the same programming as CJCH-TV

CJCH-TV

CJCH-DT is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is an O&O of the CTV Television Network.It is the flagship of the CTV Atlantic regional system in the Maritimes, producing all of the system's programming except for some commercials and local news inserts on the...

 in Halifax

Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia

Halifax Regional Municipality is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The Regional Municipality had a 2006 census population of 372,679, while the metropolitan area had a 2010 estimated population of 403,188, and the urban area of Halifax had a population of 282,924...

 at all times, except some commercials and an annual telethon.

History

CJCB-TV signed on for the first time on October 9, 1954; owned by the Nathanson family along with CJCB radio

CJCB (AM)

CJCB is a Canadian radio station which broadcasts from Sydney, Nova Scotia on the AM dial at 1270 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts. The station is one of the oldest radio stations in the Atlantic Provinces, hitting the airwaves on February 14, 1929...

. It was originally a CBC

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 affiliate. CHUM Limited

CHUM Limited

CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel  — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television affiliate, one...

, owner of CJCH-TV, bought CJCB-TV in 1971 and switched it to CTV in 1972 when the CBC put CBIT

CBHT

CBHT is the flagship station of CBC Television in the Atlantic Time Zone of Canada. CBHT broadcasts on terrestrial channel 39 at 157.54 kW and cable channel 11 in the Halifax metro area...

 on the air in Sydney. It immediately joined the Atlantic Television System, CHUM's network of CTV affiliates in the Maritimes.

CHUM owned CJCB-TV until 1997, when it swapped the entire ATV group to Baton Broadcasting in a deal that saw Baton become majority owner of CTV.

Transmitters

The station also has rebroadcast transmitters in the following communities:

Station	City of licence City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....	Channel Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast...	ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...	HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts...	Transmitter Coordinates	Notes
CJCB-TV-1	Inverness Inverness, Nova Scotia Inverness is a Canadian rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia. In 2001 its population was 2,496.Located on the west coast of Cape Breton Island fronting the Gulf of St...	6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )	9.4 kW	310 m	46°9′13"N 61°22′58"W
CJCB-TV-2	Antigonish Antigonish, Nova Scotia Antigonish is a Canadian town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous highland games in North America.-History:...	9 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )	260 kW	274.9 m	45°32′44"N 62°15′38"W	formerly CFXU-TV
CJCB-TV-3	Dingwall Dingwall, Nova Scotia Dingwall is a coastal community of approximately 600 residents in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated just off the Cabot Trail, 84.68 kilometers northeast of county seat Baddeck. The federal Electoral Riding is Sydney—Victoria.-Overview:...	9 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )	0.008 kW	NA	46°56′58"N 60°28′2"W
CJCB-TV-5	Bay St. Lawrence Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia Bay St. Lawrence is a fishing community in northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in Victoria County. The federal Electoral Riding is Sydney—Victoria....	7 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )	0.001 kW	NA	46°58′35"N 60°27′34"W
CJCB-TV-6	Port Hawkesbury Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia -Historical residents:*Henry Nicholas Paint , member of Parliament for Richmond county, merchant and land owner. His family received land grants at Belle Vue on the Strait of Canso in 1817 and at Point Tupper in 1863, and did much to develop the local communities in the area.*Arthur John Langley ...	3 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )	15 kW	89.6 m	45°37′44"N 61°19′34"W

^* The New Glasgow transmitter is closed down

External links

• CTV Sydney
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CJCB-TV History
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CFXU-TV History