CBHT
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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 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. 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,Sreet Cents, Switchback, Land and Sea, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and .
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External links
- [mcsittel.com -- includes screengrabs of CBHT from the mid-1980s, picked up in Kingsport, Tennessee]
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