CHAU-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CHAU-TV
city = Carleton, Quebec
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 5 (VHF), cable 4
digital = Unknown
other_chs = "(see article)"
affiliations = TVA
founded = October 17, 1959
location = Carleton, Quebec
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Télé Inter-Rives
licensee = CHAU-TV Communications ltée
former_affiliations = CBC (1959-1968)
SRC (1959-1983)
effective_radiated_power = 81.7 kW
homepage = [http://www.chautva.com TVA CHAU]

CHAU-TV is a television station. It is the TVA affiliate in Carleton, Quebec and is owned by Télé Inter-Rives.

The original owner of CHAU was Dr. Charles Houde of La Télévision de la Baie des Chaleurs, who put the station on the air for the first time on October 17, 1959 as a dual CBC / SRC station. Initially, like all other Quebec private TV stations, CHAU broadcast both English and French shows. For CHAU, the ratio of English to French programs was 7:13. The station entered SRC's microwave network on March 24, 1960, and became an all-French station in 1968.

CHAU has been a TVA affiliate since December 18, 1983, when SRC opened a rebroadcaster of CBGAT-TV in the Carleton area. For a few years prior to the change to TVA, CHAU carried programs from both Radio-Canada and TVA. CHAU picks up the TVA signal from its sister station in Rivière-du-Loup, CIMT-TV, with both stations' logos used in network promos.

CHAU-TV holds the distinction of being the private TV station in Quebec with the largest transmitter network, with transmitters not only in the Gaspé region of Quebec, but also three rebroadcast translators in New Brunswick.

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External links

* [http://www.chautva.com TVA CHAU]
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