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CBAT-TV is the call sign for the CBC's television station in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The station's main transmitter is actually on Mount Champlain near Saint John, broadcasting terrestrially on channel 4.

Other transmitters include:

• CBAT-TV-1: channel 6, Bon Accord (near Perth-Andover)
• CBAT-TV-2: channel 7, Moncton (formerly CHMT-TV)
• CBAT-TV-3: channel 6, Miramichi (formerly CHCN-TV)
• CBAT-TV-4: channel 4, Campbellton (formerly CHCD-TV)
• CBAT-TV-5: channel 8, Doaktown
• CBAT-TV-6: channel 13, Boiestown

For the station's entire existence, it has broadcast CBC programming. It first went on the air on March 22, 1954 as CHSJ-TV, owned by New Brunswick Broadcasting Co. (itself owned by the Irving family) and located in Saint John. Its network of rebroadcasters was built up between 1961 and 1978.

CBC bought the station in 1994, recalled it as CBAT, and relocated its studios to Fredericton. New Brunswick was the last province without an owned-and-operated CBC station; although CBC's Fredericton and Moncton studios produced programming for CHSJ as early as the 1970s. CHSJ's pre-emptions of large blocks of CBC programming, forcing an entire province to miss several of CBC's most well-known shows, was the subject of complaints to the CRTC, which mandated that CHSJ clear the minimum block of CBC programming in 1988.

The flagship 6:00 p.m. newscast has been broadcast from Fredericton since the 1980s, first as the CBC News for New Brunswick, then later as NB Now until the national restructuring of CBC local news led to the creation of Canada Now (now called CBC News at Six). The current local anchor on CBAT is Andy Wilson. Past anchors have included Terry Seguin, Carole MacNeil, Geoff Britt, and Anita Sharma. Weathercaster Rose Arseneault was popular with viewers until she lost her job due to budget cutbacks in 2000.

In 2003 CBAT made a controversial programming decision by pre-empting CBC's broadcast of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals in order to carry live returns from a provincial election.

For reasons unknown, despite there being no radio station using "CBAT", and the CBC's preference for television call signs that do not use the "-TV" suffix, the Frederiction station is indeed listed in Industry Canada's database as "CBAT-TV", not "CBAT".

Coverage

The station is also carried on cable across the border in Maine, particularly in the cities of Presque Isle and Houlton, Maine, as well as in Washington, Maine.

Logos

• CHSJ ident from the mid-1980s.
  CHSJ ident from the mid-1980s.
• CBAT NB Now logo from the late 1990s.
  CBAT NB Now logo from the late 1990s.

External link

• CBC New Brunswick