Chextv.com is a television news station, based in Ontario, Canada
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CHEX Television - www.chextv.com
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CHEX Television hit the airwaves on March 26, 1955, as an affiliate of the CBC Network, serving East Central Ontario and the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario from studios in Peterborough.
The station was owned by Roy Thomson (49%) and the Davies family (51%) owners of the Peterborough Examiner newspaper. The same partnership had put CKWS-TV Kingston on the air in December of 1954. The Davies family also owned the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper. The family consisted of Senator Rupert Davies, Robertson Davies and Arthur Davies. Also owned by the group was CHEX-AM and CKWS-AM, so the progression to TV was a natural extension of their interest in broadcasting.
The station, studios and transmitter were located on Television Hill just outside the city of Peterborough. Initial equipment included two Pye cameras on wooden tripods with no zoom lenses. Changing from long shots to close-ups had to be achieved by physically trucking the units in and out from the subject matter. Two Eastman Kodak 16 mm projectors, a slide projector and a telop (for still photos and artwork) completed the equipment for actually putting the programs into the system. The "Trouble is Temporary - Please do not adjust your set" slide was routine procedure to cover those moments when 'loops' weren't quite sufficient and the projectors stuttered to a frame rendering halt.
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