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CHBC-TV 
Okanagan and Thompson City of license Kelowna, British Columbia Branding Global Okanagan (general)
CHBC News (local news)Slogan The Okanagan's Very Own Channels Analog: 2 (VHF)
Digital: allocated 59 (UHF)Translators see below Affiliations Global Owner Shaw Media Inc.
(Shaw Television G.P.)First air date September 21, 1957 Call letters' meaning CH British Columbia Sister station(s) CHAN-TV Former affiliations CBC (1957-2006)
CH/E! (2006-2009)Transmitter power 3.7 kW Height 498 m Transmitter coordinates 49°58′2″N 119°31′50″W / 49.96722°N 119.53056°W Website Global Okanagan / CHBC News CHBC-TV is a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada owned by Shaw Media. It transmits on channel 2, and cable channel 4, and broadcasts on 18 relay stations.
A former CBC affiliate and later an E! owned-and-operated station (O&O), as of August 31, 2009 the station carries programming from the Global Television Network, branded as Global Okanagan. The station continues to air local news under the title CHBC News.
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History
As a CBC affiliate
CHBC went on the air on September 21, 1957, as a CBC affiliate. It covered the central Okanagan Valley on channel 2 with 3,700 watts from its main studios and transmitter in Kelowna. The station was founded by three local radio stations: CKOV Kelowna, CKOK Penticton and CJIB Vernon. Due to the mountainous terrain of the area, repeaters were begun a few weeks later in Vernon (on channel 7 with 310 watts) and Penticton (on channel 13 with 300 watts).
To begin with, only 500 homes in the area had television receivers, but that amount rose to 10,000 the following year. The station had ordered two studio cameras, but due to the number of TV stations starting in North America in that period, the station had to make do with one camera on loan for a year until the order was filled. They also relied on 16 mm film which was developed first by a local photo lab, and then again in-house.
In 1960, the station began receiving programs from the CBC via its microwave link. Prior to this, all network programs were received on kinescope and 16 mm film, with regular shows airing a week later after they were aired on the main stations, and the National News aired a day after. Local programs and ads were produced live to air. Programs produced locally in the early days included Kids Bids, The Three R's, Romper Room, Let's Visit, Midday, Focus and Okanagan Magazine.
In 1964, CHBC received its first video tape machine, which aided the production of locally produced programming and commercials. Two years later, colour television arrived via the network, and the station gradually installed more equipment for colour production and transmission, as well as telecine and videotape.
In the late 1960s, CHBC and Kamloops' CBC affiliate CFJC formed BCI-TV, an internal company headed by CHBC for programming and sales of the combined Okanagan/Kamloops markets. The national sales were delegated to All Canada Sales, and they sold the two stations' advertising as a single unit under the name "BCI TV". For years, both stations carried virtually identical programming schedules apart from local news.
In 1970, Vancouver's BCTV came to an agreement with CHBC to provide a CTV service to the area, via a protective service, which protected local advertisers from Vancouver advertisers with cut-ins on the second station. In 1971, full conversion to colour was completed when a colour studio camera was purchased.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the ownership of the station changed, beginning with the purchase of CKOK's one-third ownership by general manager Roy Chapman, which he later sold to BCTV. Selkirk Communications brought CJIB, and along with it, its 33% stake. CKOV sold its stake in equal parts to both BCTV and Selkirk, which resulted in a 50/50 ownership structure. When Maclean-Hunter took over Selkirk in 1989, Western International Communications (WIC) (BCTV's parent company) purchased Selkirk's stake to take full control of CHBC.
In 1987, President and General Manager Ron Evans spearheaded a campaign wherein the station become known as "The Okanagan's Very Own CHBC" in order to compete with the forty television signals being distributed by cable operators in the market. As a result, more local programs and commercials were produced, and involvement in the 55 communities served by CHBC was increased. This commitment has been recognized and rewarded by improved ratings and many industry awards and CHBC was often held-up as a Canadian model for its ability to identify with the community it serves during this era.
The logo used by CHBC from the 90s until 2007.
In 1998, the Griffiths family's stake in WIC was sold to Shaw Communications and Canwest. After months of negotiation, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the split of WIC's assets between Canwest, Corus Radio and Shaw Communications. CHBC was sold to Canwest in 2000, along with its sister station BCTV. When Canwest acquired CHBC, it assumed the same role in selling advertising and providing programming, primarily from its CH service.
As a CH/E! O&O
In the mid-2000s, the CBC notified CHBC that it did not intend to renew its affiliation agreement with the station after it expired in August 2005. In response, the station applied to the CRTC in 2004 to disaffiliate from the CBC; approval was given on February 28, 2005.[1] CBUT, the CBC's Vancouver O&O, subsequently added a new transmitter in Kelowna on channel 45. After its BCI-TV partner CFJC-TV received a similar approval to disaffiliate from the CBC, both stations changed affiliations on February 27, 2006 and continued the operation of BCI-TV with new programs supplied from Canwest's secondary CH television system.
CHBC was the only Canwest-owned CH station to not use the CH brand on-air, opting to brand using its call letters instead, with its newscasts titled CHBC News. The local newscast branding remained following CH's rebrand to E! in 2007.
CHBC's alternate logo since August 31, 2009. The logo used for newscasts from 2007-2010. It was used as the de facto branding of the station from 2007-2009. This logo is still used on their webpage.In November 2008, CHBC announced its newscasts would no longer be produced at its studios in Kelowna. The newscast would use a virtual studio at CHEK Victoria and will be produced by Global BC. In addition, the noon newscast would be cancelled.[2] The decision to move the anchor job to Victoria was later reversed due to viewer complaints to the station. The half-hour 11 p.m. newscast would later be extended to a full hour to make up for the loss of the half-hour noon newscast, while the 5 p.m. news began with a half hour lifestyle newscast anchored by Doris Janssen.
As a Global O&O
On February 5, 2009, Canwest announced it would explore "strategic options", including possible sale, for CHBC and its other E! stations, saying "a second conventional TV network is no longer key to the long-term success" of the company.[3] Although for a time it was thought that CHBC might be closed, Canwest ultimately decided to add CHBC to the Global network as of August 31, 2009.[4] That network was already available in the Okanagan through CHAN-TV (Global BC), which has operated a semi-satellite, CHKL-TV on channel 5, in the region since the early 1980s.
For the foreseeable future, it is expected that both stations will continue to operate separately, due to the highly-rated local and provincial newscasts on CHBC and Global BC respectively. However, the two stations' schedules and advertising are virtually identical, including local news outside of the supper hour. More specifically, CHBC simulcasts Global BC's programming at all times, with the following exceptions:
- The local programming discussed below
- Global National airs at 6:00 p.m. on CHBC, instead of 5:30 p.m. on Global BC
- Various animated sitcoms simulcast on Fox air Sundays at 7:00pm, in place of newsmagazine 16:9
On July 7, 2010, CHBC introduced a new virtual studio controlled out of Vancouver. The station dropped its E! era newscast graphics and replaced them with the Global O&O graphics, although newscasts are still referred to as "CHBC News".
With the addition of the virtual set and HD studio cameras, CHBC broadcasted its first newscast in HD on Shaw Cable 211 on July 6, 2011. During the cutbacks in 2009, CHBC lost its live news gathering abilities in Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton and its 5:00 p.m. newscast. However, these resources along with the 5:00 p.m. newscast returned on July 11, 2011.[5]
News operation
CHBC's studio building in Downtown Kelowna
A CHBC News vehicleCurrently, CHBC has three daily newscasts, consisting of one hourly early evening newscast weeknights at 5:00 p.m., one half-hour late evening newscast weeknights at 6:30 p.m. and an hourly-long late night newscast weeknights at 11:00 p.m. anchored by Rick Webber, Klaudia Ceglarz and Jonathan Glasgow respectively. CHBC also airs half-hour newscasts at 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday nights, anchored by Doris Janssen. This totals 15.5 hours per week of original, local programming produced at CHBC. CHBC was previously airing 22.5 hours per week of local programming until September 2009. The minimum amount of local programming currently required by the station's licence as of 2009 is seven hours per week.
The station also previously aired a weekly half-hour program dedicated to things happening around the Okanagan called Okanagan Now. This program was canceled following layoffs at the station in September 2009.[6]
News team[7]
Anchors
- Klaudia Ceglarz - weeknights at 6:30 p.m.
- Doris Janssen - weekends at 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m.
- Toby Tannas - weeknights at 11 p.m.
- Rick Webber - weeknights at 5 p.m.
Weather
- Mike Roberts - lead weather anchor; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m.
Reporters
- Tracy Kim Bonneau - Native correspondent
- Klaudia Ceglarz
- Blaine Gaffney
- Doirs Janssen
- April Lawrence - South Okanagan reporter
- Barry McDivitt
- Cort Smith - North Okanagan reporter
- Julia Wong
Transmitters
Station City of license Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates CHBC-TV-1 Penticton 13 (VHF) 0.54 kW 365 m 49°39′34″N 119°34′22″W / 49.65944°N 119.57278°W CHBC-TV-2 Vernon 7 (VHF) 0.62 kW 184 m 50°16′58″N 119°19′13″W / 50.28278°N 119.32028°W CHBC-TV-3 Oliver 8 (VHF) 0.22 kW -76 m 49°6′0″N 119°34′49″W / 49.1°N 119.58028°W CHBC-TV-4 Salmon Arm 9 (VHF) 0.486 kW -302.8 m 50°45′22″N 119°20′1″W / 50.75611°N 119.33361°W CHBC-TV-5 Enderby 16 (UHF) 2.4 kW -220.1 m 50°33′56″N 119°6′7″W / 50.56556°N 119.10194°W CHBC-TV-6 Celista 3 (VHF) 0.009 kW NA 50°57′12″N 119°24′14″W / 50.95333°N 119.40389°W CHBC-TV-7 Penticton 7 (VHF) 0.005 kW NA 49°31′30″N 119°38′19″W / 49.525°N 119.63861°W CHBC-TV-8 Canoe 6 (VHF) 0.009 kW NA 50°43′45″N 119°12′39″W / 50.72917°N 119.21083°W CHBC-TV-9 Apex Mountain 13 (VHF) 0.001 kW NA 49°21′34″N 119°54′34″W / 49.35944°N 119.90944°W Digital television and high definition
CHBC-TV has not yet begun broadcasting in digital and, as the only in-market originating station, was not required to do so as part of the August 31, 2011 analogue television shutdown.[8]
The station must begin broadcasting in digital before August 31, 2016, as part of Shaw's benefit package of acquiring Canwest. CHBC-TV's digital broadcasts will be allocated VHF channel 8.
References
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-25
- ^ Don Plant, Fade to black, Kelowna Daily Courier, November 13, 2008. Accessed online August 22, 2010.
- ^ "Canwest may sell TV stations". cbc.ca, February 5, 2009.
- ^ "Canwest closing TV stations in Alberta, B.C.". cbc.ca, July 22, 2009.
- ^ CHBC News @ 5 Returns to Global Okanagan, Broadcaster Magazine, July 6, 2011.
- ^ http://www.kelowna.com/2009/09/03/more-layoffs-at-chbc
- ^ Personalities | CHBC Okanagan
- ^ http://www.shaw.ca/Television/About/Digital-Transition/Global-Channels/#BC
External links
- Global Okanagan
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CHBC-TV History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHBC-TV
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CHBC
Broadcast television in British Columbia Vancouver DTV Victoria DTV Kamloops CFJC 4 (Citytv) • CHKM 6 (Global) • CBUFT-2 50 (Radio-Canada)
Kelowna CHBC 21 (Global) • CHKL 51 (Global) • CBUFT-1 21 (Radio-Canada) • CBUT-38 45 (CBC)
Prince George CKPG 2 (Citytv) • CBUFT-4 4 (Radio-Canada) • CIFG 12 (Global)
Other areas Cable-only US stations serving BC See also: List of television stations in British Columbia, Northwest Washington and Seattle TV
1 CHBC and CHKL carry separate evening newscasts (local and provincial respectively), but identical programming otherwise.
2 Available on over the air retransmitters in certain towns.Global Television Network Owned and operated stations CHAN Vancouver • CHBC Kelowna • CICT Calgary • CITV Edmonton • CISA Lethbridge • CFSK Saskatoon • CFRE Regina • CKND Winnipeg • CIII Toronto • CKMI Montreal • CIHF HalifaxAffiliates CHFD Thunder Bay • CJON St. John's (de facto)Secondary carriers See also Shaw Media
Corporate Directors Adrian Burns · Jim Dinning · George Galbraith · Ronald Joyce · Charles Keating · Don Mazankowski · Michael O'Brien · Harold Roozen · Jeffrey Royer · Bradley Shaw · Jim Shaw · J.R. Shaw · J.C. Sparkman · John S. Thomas · Bill YuillBroadcast television CFRE Regina • CFSK Saskatoon • CHAN Vancouver • CHBC Kelowna • CICT Calgary • CIHF Halifax • CIII Toronto • CISA Lethbridge • CITV Edmonton • CKMI Montreal • CKND WinnipegCTV affiliateCable television/
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- Television channels and stations established in 1957
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