CHEM-DT

CHEM-DT (channel 8) is a television station in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, owned and operated by the French-language network TVA. The station's studios are located on Boulevard de Chanoine-Moreau and Rue Jacques de Labadie in Trois-Rivières, with a transmitter on Rue Principale in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.

CHEM-DT

Trois-Rivières, Quebec Canada
Channels	Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8
Branding	TVA (general) TVA Nouvelles (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations	TVA
Ownership
Owner	Groupe TVA
History
First air date	August 29, 1976 (49 years ago) (August 29, 1976)
Former call signs	CHEM-TV (1976–2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1976–2011)
Former affiliations	Réseau Pathonic (1986–1990)
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	11.5 kW
HAAT	291.5 m (956 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	46°30′7″N 72°38′10″W
Links
Website	TVA Trois-Rivières

History

The station was founded on August 29, 1976, and was owned by Telemedia. It was originally a semi-satellite of CHLT-TV in Sherbrooke, and has been a TVA station for its entire existence. Pathonic Communications bought CHEM and four other stations in 1979. Sometime in the 1980s, CHEM severed the electronic umbilical cord with CHLT and became a full-fledged station. Télé-Metropole, owner of TVA flagship station CFTM-TV in Montreal, bought Pathonic in 1989, and since then CHEM has essentially been a semi-satellite of CFTM.

External links

• TVA Trois-Rivières
• CHEM-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
• CHEM-TV in the REC Canadian station database