Special Bulletin - Pattison Media shuts down CHAT-TV Medicine Hat


We have some more disappointing TV news from Alberta as Pattison Media's Citytv affiliated station CHAT-TV/Medicine Hat shuts down for good.


This comes less than a month after another Citytv affiliated station in Lloydminster, AB/SK, CKSA-DT along with sister station CITL-DT (a CTV affiliate) were shut down by Stingray, citing "challenging economic conditions" and "careful consideration of the evolving media landscape and the challenges facing local television broadcasting".


CHAT-TV first debuted on September 14, 1957, as a private CBC affiliate, with a transmitter power output of 5,700 watts.


The station would stay with the CBC for the next 51 years, until CRTC announced the approval of disaffiliation of CHAT from the CBC effective August 31, 2008.


The station would affiliate with the E! television system, but a year later, Pattison announced that CHAT and its other E! affiliates would begin receiving programming from Rogers Media's Citytv system on September 1 of the same year.


Historically, this station aired Hockey Night in Canada games during their affiliation with the CBC, but when Rogers announced a 12-year $5.2 billion deal to broadcast NHL games in November 2013, the station began to air HNIC games again via their Citytv affiliation.


As a result of the station's closure, Rogers and Telus customers now receive Calgary's CKAL-DT instead.


This station will be sorrowly missed after almost 68 years due to "insurmountable" financial challenges.

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