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1980

CRTC grants CKBW permission to rebroadcast its programming to Liverpool and Shelburne on the FM network.

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1976

Supreme Court of Canada rejects as unfounded the Combines Investigation Act charges against Irving print media ownership in New Brunswick. In the same year CHSJ-TV begins broadcasting to north-eastern New Brunswick from its transmitter on Mount St. Joseph in Carleton, Quebec.

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1974

Forest Fire wipes out CKBW’s transmitter site at Hebbville but the station gets back on the air within 36 hours with the help of borrowed equipment.

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1970

Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media criticizes Irving print media ownership in New Brunswick, which in 1971 leads to charges under the Combines Investigation Act.

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1969

CRTC authorizes New Brunswick Broadcasting to add a third transmitter in Riverside to rebroadcast CHSJ-TV to the Moncton area with CBC programming.

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1967

CHSJ-TV moves into the biggest broadcasting studio east of Montreal with the completion of the new Broadcast Centre at the corner of Union and Crown Streets in Saint John. It is the first all-transistorized television operation in Canada. CHSJ radio moves into new studios there later in the...

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1961

CHSJ-TV begins operating a second transmitter at Bon Accord in Victoria County to provide service to north-western New Brunswick.

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1959

CHSJ-TV installs magnetic videotape equipment in its studios, a technology that changes the entire television operation. Because the TV station needs all the space at the Church Street studios for production, CHSJ radio moves to new premises at 89 Germain Street on August 1, 1959.

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1958

CHSJ-TV connects to the continent-wide microwave broadcasting network with the rights to rebroadcast both Canadian and American network shows.

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1954

CHSJ-TV owned by New Brunswick Broadcasting begins broadcasting the first television in the Maritimes on March 22, 1954. Its transmitter tower has been built on Mount Champlain, the highest peak overlooking the Bay of Fundy just 15 miles from the centre of Saint John, in 11 months.

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