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CHNB-DT (branded on-air as Global New Brunswick) is the Global owned-and-operated television station, serving New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that is licensed to Saint John, New Brunswick. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 12. Often time the station is viewed on channel 198 on Bell TV where the province has no local Global station. Owned by Shaw Media, it is a sister station to CIHF-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is operated out of CIHF's studios on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax. ==History== The station was launched on September 5, 1988 as CIHF-TV-2, owned by the Irving family's New Brunswick Broadcasting Company, which also owned CHSJ-TV, the CBC affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station launched with three transmitters, namely those in Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton. When MITV launched, the station took all primetime American shows from CHSJ—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all primetime American programming nationwide. However Dallas and The Nanny(smiulcast from WABI-TV and WAGM-TV via cable and satellite) and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Blossom (moved to CTV Atlantic in 1992) (from WLBZ-TV via cable and satellite which also moved to daytime and carried reruns instead of new episodes at night starting in 1993 or later) which were on CBC through the early 1990s. 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 the CRTC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Shaw CRTC ownership chart )〕 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 it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Halifax. 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 programme, MITV became "Global Maritimes". Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, in Charlottetown, Woodstock, Miramichi, and St. 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 of Dartmouth. 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.〔(Global News Rebrands Global Maritimes as Global Halifax & Global New Brunswick )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CHNB-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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