CHNB-DT

Semi-satellite ofCIHF-DT, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Saint John, New Brunswick Canada
Channels	Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 12
Branding	Global New Brunswick (general) Global News (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations	12.1:Global
Ownership
Owner	Corus Entertainment (Corus TelevisionLimited Partnership[1])
Sister stations	CIHF-DT
History
First air date	September 5, 1988 (1988-09-05)
Former call signs	CIHF-TV-2 (1988–2011) CIHF-DT-2 (2011–2013)
Former channel numbers	Analog: 12 (VHF, 1988–2011)
Former affiliations	Independent (1988–1997)
Call sign meaning	New Brunswick
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	6kW
HAAT	354.0 m (1,161 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°28′40″N66°14′0″W / 45.47778°N 66.23333°W /45.47778; -66.23333
Translator(s)	see§ Transmitters
Links
Website	Global New Brunswick

CHNB-DT (channel 12) is atelevision station inSaint John, New Brunswick, Canada,owned and operated by theGlobal Television Network, a division ofCorus Entertainment. It serves as the network's outlet for both New Brunswick andPrince Edward Island (by way of a repeater inLot 22 servingCharlottetown). CHNB-DT issister toCIHF-DT inHalifax, Nova Scotia, and the two stations share studios on Gottingen Street inDowntown Halifax; CHNB-DT's transmitter is located on Mount Champlain. Aside from the transmitters, CHNB-DT does not maintain any physical presence locally in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island.

The station was launched on September 5, 1988, as CIHF-TV-2, owned by the Irving family'sNew Brunswick Broadcasting Company, which also owned CHSJ-TV, theCBC affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station launched with three transmitters, namely those in Saint John,Fredericton, andMoncton. When MITV launched, the station took all prime time American shows from CHSJ—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all prime time American programming nationwide.

It was closely tied with sister station CIHF-TV in Halifax. Both shared the same branding,MITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, despite the New Brunswick station's rebroadcaster-like callsign, the stations were separately licensed by theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).^[2][3] At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".

After losing$5 million each year since sign-on, MITV was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming itCBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Dartmouth.

In 1995, MITV's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, as a part of Canwest's rebranding program, MITV became "Global Maritimes".

Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, inCharlottetown,Woodstock,Miramichi, andSt. Stephen.

On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax. Previously, its operations were located on Akerley Blvd. in an industrial park in the Halifax suburb ofDartmouth.

In April 2013, CIHF-2 was rebranded Global New Brunswick, while sister station CIHF was rebranded Global Halifax, marking the first time the stations have not used the same brand. The stations began producing separate nightly newscasts in addition to their already existing separate evening newscasts, and a new senior correspondent was hired for Global New Brunswick. The stations will continue to share newsgathering resources and anchors.^[4] Despite the separate branding, the two stations' non-news schedules are almost identical with the exception of idents and commercials.

Although the station has always been separately licensed, it was not until June 18, 2013, that its callsign changed from CIHF-DT-2 to CHNB-DT,^[5] a callsign formerly held by anow defunct television station inNorth Bay, Ontario from 1971 to 2002.

Global New Brunswick airs two local newscasts a day:Global News at 6 presented from the Global Montreal studios by Aalia Adam^[6] andGlobal News at 11, presented out of Global's Toronto news centre.Global News at 6 New Brunswick is followed byGlobal National at 6:30 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Halifax and Global New Brunswick share pan-regional newscasts, presented from the Toronto news centre, on weekends at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. In addition, Global New Brunswick simulcastsGlobal News Morning live from Global Halifax weekday mornings from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Along with a growing number of other Global stations, CHNB has used a "virtual" studio since 2007. The anchor sits behind a desk in front of a green screen, onto which a virtual reality studio is digitally projected. Cameras and tapes are cued and controlled from a centralized control centre—which was originally inVancouver, but was moved in August 2008 toEdmonton. A number of the redundancies made in October 2007 were directly attributable to the introduction of this new technology.

Global Maritimes also had a 5:30 p.m. newscast called theEarly News, but was cancelled as of early 2007 to make way for a full hour late-night newscast. TheEarly News was the first attempt by Global Maritimes to compete againstCTV Atlantic's flagship news magazine programLive at 5. Global also had a noon lifestyle show calledThe Noon Show, which was cancelled due to low ratings.

On June 8, 2011, the station announced that Ron Kronstein would become the senior anchor/producer for both the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick editions of theEvening News; Kronstein was the former host ofLive at 5 on ATV (now CTV Atlantic) until 2003.^[7] On the same day, the station provided more details about its upcomingMorning News, and announced that up to a dozen new reporters, producers, and videographers would be hired at its bureaus in Halifax, Sydney, Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton.^[8]

On January 28, 2013, Global Maritimes launched a three-hour weekday morning program (initially airing from 6–9 a.m.) titled theMorning News (nowGlobal News Morning), as part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.^[9][10]

• Allan Rowe – evening anchor (later a Nova Scotia MLA, deceased)
• Janet Stewart – evening anchor (now atCBWT-DT in Winnipeg)

The Maritimes are located in theAtlantic Time Zone, which is one hour ahead of theEastern Time Zone, where Global'sCIIIToronto is located. In order to accommodate such atime zone difference and maximizesimultaneous substitution opportunities with the American stations carried on cable, CHNB's prime time schedule deviates from that of most other Global O&Os, with some shows airing earlier in the evening, and occasionally on different nights, compared to other Global stations. (Global's stations in Alberta, which operate onMountain Time but are in markets where the American network affiliates available on cable are onPacific Time, usually have a very similar prime time schedule.)

The station operates the followingrebroadcast transmitters.

• Global New Brunswick
• CHNB-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
• CHNB-DT in the REC Canadian station database

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