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{{Short description|Television station in Peterborough, Ontario}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = CHEX-DT
| city = 
| logo = Global Peterborough logo since 2022.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| branding = {{ubl|Global Peterborough|''CHEX News on Global Peterborough''}}
| digital = 12 ([[Very high frequency|VHF]])
| virtual = 12
| subchannels = 
| translators = CHEX-TV-1 4 [[Bancroft, Ontario|Bancroft]]
| affiliations = [[Global Television Network|Global]]
| owner = [[Corus Entertainment]]
| licensee = 591987 [[British Columbia|B.C.]] Ltd.<ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht032d.pdf Ownership Chart 32D - CORUS - Radio & TV]</ref>
| location = [[Peterborough, Ontario]]
| country = Canada
| airdate = {{start date and age|1955|3|25|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = ''[[The Peterborough Examiner]]'' (former owner, local newspaper)
| sister_stations = [[CHEX-DT-2]], [[CKWS-DT]], [[CIII-DT]], [[CKRU-FM]], [[CKWF-FM]]
| former_callsigns = CHEX-TV (1955–2013)
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 12 (VHF, 1955–2013)
| former_affiliations = [[CBC Television]] (1955–2015)<br>[[CTV Television Network|CTV]] (2015–2018)
| erp = 20 [[Watt|kW]]
| haat = {{convert|316.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 
| coordinates = {{coord|44|19|42|N|78|17|58|W|type:landmark}}
| licensing_authority = [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]]
| website = {{URL|https://globalnews.ca/peterborough/|Global Peterborough}}
}}

'''CHEX-DT''' (channel 12) is a [[television station]] in [[Peterborough, Ontario]], Canada, [[owned and operated]] by the [[Global Television Network]], a division of [[Corus Entertainment]]. The station maintains studios on Monaghan Road (near Rose Avenue) in the southern portion of Peterborough, and its transmitter is located on Television Hill, just outside the city.

== History ==
The station signed on the air on March 26, 1955, as an independently owned affiliate of CBC Television; its inaugural broadcast was a [[National Hockey League]] game. CHEX was founded by a media partnership that already published ''[[The Peterborough Examiner]]'' newspaper and owned radio station CHEX (now [[CKRU (AM)|CKRU]]). The partnership included politician [[William Rupert Davies|Rupert Davies]], who was also involved in a similar arrangement in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]] that established [[CKWS-TV]]. The Davies family sold its media interests to [[Power Corporation of Canada]] in 1976. On April 13, 2000, the station was acquired by Canadian media conglomerate Corus Entertainment.

[[Image:CHEX-TV logo.svg|200px|thumb|left|Previous logo used from 2013 to 2016. An earlier variant of the logo featured cyan and green bars instead of red.]]

On May 20, 2015, Corus and [[Bell Media]] announced an agreement whereby its three CBC stations would leave the public network (after 60 years in the case of CHEX) and "affiliate" with [[CTV Television Network|CTV]]. The affiliation switch took effect on August 31, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1540015/corus-entertainment-s-eastern-ontario-television-channels-enter-into-a-program-supply-agreement-with-bell-media-to-broadcast-ctv-programming|title=Corus Entertainment's Eastern Ontario Television Channels Enter into a Program Supply Agreement with Bell Media to Broadcast CTV Programming|author=Corus Entertainment|author-link=Corus Entertainment|date=May 20, 2015|accessdate=May 20, 2015|archive-date=May 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528073532/http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1540015/corus-entertainment-s-eastern-ontario-television-channels-enter-into-a-program-supply-agreement-with-bell-media-to-broadcast-ctv-programming|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-403.htm Broadcasting Decision 2015-403]</ref> Most TV service providers serving the region already carry CBLT, and any that did not would have to add a CBC affiliate such as CBLT to their basic services in order to comply with [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) regulations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-97-555/FullText.html#s-17.|title=Broadcast Distribution Regulations (ss. 17(d) and 17(f))|work=Justice Laws Website|publisher=[[Department of Justice (Canada)]]|date=February 28, 2014|accessdate=July 12, 2014}}</ref> 
[[File:CHEXTV_2016.svg|180px|left|thumb|Former logo used from October 2016 to August 2018]]
Legally, CHEX's relationship with CTV was described as a "program supply agreement", and not as an "affiliation" (a term with specific legal implications under CRTC rules), as Corus maintained editorial control over the stations' programming and the ability to sell local advertising, and did not delegate responsibility for CTV programs aired by the station to Bell Media.<ref name=crtc-programsupply>{{cite web|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2015-403|date=August 27, 2015 |url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-403.htm|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=September 3, 2015}}</ref> The switch was approved by the CRTC on August 27, 2015, dismissing objections by [[Rogers Media]] (who argued that the change was an "affiliation" and thus required CRTC consent to implement, and was not in the public interest because it created duplicate sources of CTV programming), and by a resident who complained that because he only received television over the air, he would lose his ability to receive CBC Television as a result of the disaffiliation.<ref>{{cite news|title=CBC drops local TV affiliates in Oshawa, Peterborough and Kingston|url=https://www.thestar.com/business/2015/08/28/cbc-drops-local-tv-affiliates-in-oshawa-peterborough-and-kingston.html|accessdate=August 28, 2015|work=Toronto Star|date=August 28, 2015}}</ref>

Following the expiration of CHEX's three-year deal with CTV, the station became a Global owned-and-operated station (O&O) and rebranded itself as '''Global Peterborough''' on August 27, 2018; the CHEX branding was retained for the station's newscasts.<ref name="tpe-chexctvtoglobal">{{cite news|last=Kovach |first=Joelle |title=CHEX-TV newscasts rebranding as CHEX News on Global Peterborough |url=https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news-story/8818775-chex-tv-newscasts-rebranding-as-chex-news-on-global-peterborough/ |accessdate=August 15, 2018 |work=[[The Peterborough Examiner]] |date=August 14, 2018 |language=en-CA}}</ref>

== News operation ==
Local newscasts, branded as ''CHEX News'', air weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m. and at noon, and nightly at 6 and 11&nbsp;p.m.

In September 2016, CHEX began to replace [[CTV News]] programming with [[Global News]] programs, moving its late-night newscast to 11 p.m. to replace the ''[[CTV National News]]'' (the vacant timeslot at 11:30&nbsp;p.m. was replaced with ''[[ET Canada]]''),<ref name="chex-news">{{cite web |title=Your late news just got earlier! Join @JayeMakinson @MeaghanDRoy & @Mike_Judson for CHEX News at 11pm, beginning tonight on @chextv |url=https://twitter.com/chextv/status/790734360160772097 |accessdate=October 25, 2016}}</ref> and adding an airing of ''[[Global National]]''. On October 24, 2016, CHEX premiered a local morning newscast known as ''The Morning Show'', which was patterned after the [[The Morning Show (Canadian TV series)|program of the same name]] aired by [[CIII-DT]] and the ''[[Global News Morning]]'' format used in other markets.<ref name="faguy-globallloyd">{{cite web |last1=Faguy |first1=Steve |title=Global expands network after CBC abandons affiliates |url=http://blog.fagstein.com/2016/09/01/global-expands-network/ |accessdate=September 6, 2016}}</ref><ref name="globalnews-newareas">{{cite web |title='Global National,' 'The Morning Show' expanding into new areas |url=http://globalnews.ca/news/2916134/global-national-the-morning-show-expanding-into-new-areas/ |accessdate=September 6, 2016 |website=Global News}}</ref>

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of CHEX-DT<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=9215900#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for CHEX|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=January 4, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#Canada|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 12.1 
| rowspan=2|[[1080i]] || rowspan=2|[[16:9]] || CHEXHD || [[Global Television Network|Global]]
|- style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"
! scope = "row" | [[CKWS-DT|30.1]] 
| CKWSHD || Global Kingston ([[CKWS-DT]])
|}
{{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
CHEX-TV began offering a high definition feed on [[Cogeco|Cogeco Cable]] in the Peterborough area in November 2010. The station switched its over-the-air signal from analog to digital on May 9, 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=CHEX-TV making switch to digital transmission from analog on May 9|url=http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2013/04/02/chex-tv-making-switch-to-digital-transmission-from-analog-on-may-9|accessdate=May 20, 2015|work=Peterborough Examiner|date=April 2013}}</ref>

The CRTC has not listed Peterborough as one of its mandatory markets for analog television shutdown and [[Digital television in Canada|digital conversion]],<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-167.htm Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-167]</ref> and as a result CHEX-TV was not required to convert to digital transmissions on the transition date of August 31, 2011.<ref name="Analog to Digital">{{cite web |url=http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html |title=Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs - What You Need to Know About the Analog-to-Digital Television Transition in Canada |accessdate=March 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916083326/http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html |archivedate=September 16, 2008 }}</ref>

===Transmitters===
In 1965, CHEX-TV was authorized to add a rebroadcast transmitter at [[Bancroft, Ontario]] on channel 2 as CHEX-TV-1, but it moved to channel 4 in 1973 to make room for a new Global transmitter (CIII-TV-2). In the late 1960s to early 1970s,{{when|date=October 2020}} a new rebroadcast transmitter was added in [[Minden, Ontario|Minden]] to operate on channel 10 as CHEX-TV-2, later changed to channel 7. The Minden rebroadcaster was deleted during the 1980s.{{when|date=October 2020}} In 1992, a new rebroadcast transmitter was added to serve [[Oshawa, Ontario|Oshawa]] and areas on channel 22, as [[CHEX-DT-2|CHEX-TV-2]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1992/DB92-258.htm|title=Decision CRTC 92-258: Addition of a transmitter at Oshawa|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|date=May 1, 1992}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://globalnews.ca/peterborough/ Global Peterborough]
*[https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/ontario/ontario-eastern/CHEX-DT CHEX-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CHEX-TV}}

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