Another TV Station shuts down

Medicine Hats CHAT-TV shut down on June 3.

Medicine Hat’s TV station is shutting down, ending almost 70 years of local production and resulting in 14 to 16 layoffs.The company that owns CHAT-TV announced the decision to employees at a staff meeting Tuesday morning, then posted a statement on the CHAT website.Jim Pattison Broadcast Group cited several years of difficult business conditions and operating losses, but said two radio stations that also operate out of the broadcasting building in Redcliff will remain in operation.“It’s an awful day for us,” said Andrew Parry, a technician in Medicine Hat and local representative with Unifor Local No. 1010, which represents news and production personnel at three Pattison stations. “The staff is heartbroken, our families are feeling it and the City of Medicine Hat is much worse off.“The station started in 1957 and today we went to black.”

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