New Brunswick Broadcasting Company Limited was a Canadian media holding company based in

Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John is a seaport city of the Atlantic Ocean located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada, established by royal charter on May 18, 1785, during the reign of Ki ...

History

New Brunswick Broadcasting was established in 1934 when Saint John Publishing purchased the Saint John radio station CFBO. Four local men who published the two major newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick were the owners. Principal shareholder Howard P. Robinson was joined by J.D. McKenna, T.F. Drummie and L.W. Bewick. As directors they added the new division under the name New Brunswick Broadcasting at the same time as they changed the radio station call letters from CFBO to CHSJ. In 1944, industrialist K.C. Irving purchased Saint John Publishing with its two major newspaper dailies from its principal shareholder, Howard P. Robinson. This media package sale included the radio station CHSJ controlled by New Brunswick Broadcasting. Later that year Mr. Irving incorporated all three media under the name New Brunswick Publishing Company. New Brunswick Broadcasting, under New Brunswick Publishing, looked after the radio station CHSJ. In 1954, CHSJ-TV, the first television station in Atlantic Canada licensed by the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

(CBC), began broadcasting to the Saint John area. It was owned by New Brunswick Broadcasting and for many years its operations shared management, technical staff and some on-air people with CHSJ radio. For 40 years CHSJ-TV provided local news and programming in English to the province, and as an affiliate of

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, it linked provincial viewers to national and international programs. CHSJ-TV was sold in 1994 to the CBC and recalled as CBAT. In 1988, New Brunswick Broadcasting established a new television station in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,

CIHF-TV CIHF-DT (channel 8) is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, it is a sister station to CHNB-DT in Saint John, New Brunswick. The tw ...

(branded as Maritime Independent Television, or MITV). It serviced the Halifax region and some of its programming was rebroadcast to CHSJ-TV stations in Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John. Later, with additional transmitters, its coverage of Nova Scotia reached 90 percent of the province. CIHF was sold in 1994 to CanWest Global Communications. In 1989, New Brunswick Broadcasting bought radio station

CKBW CKBW-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 98.1 FM in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. The station also operates in Liverpool at 94.5 and in Shelburne at 93.1. The station plays a classic hits format branded as ''CKBW''. CKBW is owned & opera ...

from Acadia Broadcasting Co. Ltd. in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. In 2003, New Brunswick Broadcasting Company Limited with Acadia Broadcasting Company Ltd. merged under the simpler name

Acadia Broadcasting Limited Acadia Broadcasting Limited is a Canadian radio broadcasting network that operates 5 FM radio stations in Northwestern Ontario and 10 in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is owned by Ocean Capital Investments whic ...

External links

Acadia Broadcasting (historical site)
Defunct broadcasting companies of Canada 1934 establishments in New Brunswick 2003 disestablishments in New Brunswick Companies based in Saint John, New Brunswick Companies established in 1934 Companies disestablished in 2003 {{NewBrunswick-stub