CHLT-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CHLT-TV
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = Télé-7 (TV-7)
analog = 7 (VHF), cable 4
digital = 60
other_chs =
affiliations = TVA
founded = August 12, 1956
location = Sherbrooke, Quebec
callsign_meaning = C H La Tribune (local newspaper, original owner)
former_callsigns =
owner = Quebecor
former_affiliations = CBC (1956-1974, secondary until 1974)
SRC (1956-1974)
effective_radiated_power = 300 kW
homepage = [http://tva.canoe.com/stations/chlt/ TVA Sherbrooke]

CHLT-TV is the TVA owned and operated station in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

The station went on the air for the first time on August 12, 1956. It was owned by "La Tribune", the city's major newspaper--hence its call letters. Like most television stations in Quebec, it was a dual affiliate of both CBC and Radio-Canada. It usually went on the air sooner than other Quebec stations, forcing it to fill the schedule with local shows.

When CKSH-TV went on the air in 1974, it took all SRC programming away from CHLT. Sherbrooke's anglophone population was too small for CHLT to be viable as a privately-owned CBC Television affiliate. As a result, it joined TVA later in the year after CBMT-TV in Montreal opened a translator in Sherbrooke. Five years later, Pathonic Communications acquired CHLT and four other stations. Pathonic's stations aired a schedule radically different from that offered on TVA flagship CFTM-TV in Montreal. As a result, since CHLT's over-the-air signal reaches Montreal, it was carried on CF Cable and Vidéotron in that city.

However, CFTM's owner, Télé-Metropole, bought full control of TVA in 1990. Since then, CHLT has been basically a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts and commercials. CF Cable stopped carrying CHLT in the early 1990's, and Vidéotron followed suit a few years later.

CHLT is one of TVA's most powerful stations; its terrestrial footprint extends as far as northwestern Maine.

External links

* [http://tva.canoe.com/stations/chlt/ TVA Sherbrooke]
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