Logos of the past
CHRO-TV logo used from 1997 until August 2nd 2005.
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August 2nd, has been set as the date that CHUM Television will rebrand its NewNet stations, including CHRO, with the new logo pictured above. (Update from Fybush.com and background story from Channel Canada)
Note that the current A Channel group in the prairies will become Citytv stations. It's all the result of CHUM's purchase of Craig Broadcast Systems Inc.
Logos of the past
CHRO-TV logo used from 1997 until August 2nd 2005. |
As a friend of mine once commented, this is a station with an identity crisis. Now a CHUM-owned independent station, it was a former CTV/Baton-owned station in the early nineties and a CBC affiliate before that, owned by a company called Mid-Canada Television.
Formerly known as CHOV-TV, the call letters were changed in 1977 when the station was sold by Gordon Archibald because he still owned the radio station known by the same name. Gordon Archibald was also the original owner when the station went on the air in 1961.
In the eighties, it had a prime-time before prime-time schedule from 6 to 7 pm with new episodes of American shows such as "Perfect Strangers" on Friday nights. Monday nights at 7 pm, they carried Danger Bay which was time-shifted from the CBC. Tues. to Fri. at 7 and Weeknights at 7:30 pm they would carry nightly reruns of recent American hit shows such as Growing Pains and Who's The Boss. At 8 pm, regularly scheduled CBC programming except on Thursday nights when they had more American programming. They carried Beverly Hills 90210 on that night (same time slot as Fox) long before the show became a hit and CanWest/Global took the show away from them. Later on, when The Arsenio Hall Show became popular, it was carried by CHRO weeknights at midnight.
Then the station became a CTV/BBS (Baton) station carrying many of the programs available on CJOH (also part of BBS). Since the majority of CHRO viewers already had access to CJOH, most of the programming on CHRO was time-shifted (Kind of like how WCFE carries PBS programming but almost never at the same time as VPT). Plus, CHRO also carried a few non-Baton programs such as Star Trek: Voyager and Deep Space Nine
Then, in 1997, the channel had a new owner, a new name, new affiliation and a new repeater signal. CHRO became The New RO and it rebroadcasts its programming on a UHF signal in Ottawa, meaning that people in the capital no longer needed to rely on cable to watch its programs. The station also became part of a regional independent network of CHUM stations serving Ontario. This network is sometimes referred to as The New Net because all four of its stations identify themselves as The New Something Something. All traces of CTV/Baton programming were gone from the station. Except for local news and Senators' Hockey, it often uses the same schedule as The New VR (CKVR-TV in Barrie and Toronto). Today, the station carries Buffy and Angel and a few UPN and syndicated shows. Since it's a CHUM-owned station, it also rebroadcasts some City-tv shows such as FT Fashion Television.
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