CHEM-DT
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| Channels | |
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| Branding |
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| Programming | |
| Affiliations | TVA |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Groupe TVA |
| History | |
First air date | August 29, 1976 |
Former call signs | CHEM-TV (1976–2011) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 8 (VHF, 1976–2011) |
| Réseau Pathonic (1986–1990) | |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 11.5 kW |
| HAAT | 291.5 m (956 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 46°30′7″N 72°38′10″W / 46.50194°N 72.63611°W |
| Links | |
| Website | TVA Trois-Rivières |
CHEM-DT (channel 8) is a television station in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, owned and operated by the French-language network TVA.[1] The station's studios are located on Boulevard de Chanoine-Moreau and Rue Jacques de Labadie in Trois-Rivières, with a transmitter on Rue Principale in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.
History
[edit]The station was founded on August 29, 1976, and was owned by Telemedia. It was originally a semi-satellite of CHLT-TV in Sherbrooke, and has been a TVA station for its entire existence. Pathonic Communications bought CHEM and four other stations in 1979. Sometime in the 1980s, CHEM severed the electronic umbilical cord with CHLT and became a full-fledged station. Télé-Metropole, owner of TVA flagship station CFTM-TV in Montreal, bought Pathonic in 1989, and since then CHEM has essentially been a semi-satellite of CFTM.
External links
[edit]- TVA Trois-Rivières
- CHEM-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
- CHEM-TV in the REC Canadian station database
References
[edit]- ↑ "CHEM-DT – The History of Canadian Broadcasting". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved March 12, 2026.