CKMB-DT

CKMB-DT, virtual channel 13 (UHF digital channel 15), is a ABC-affiliated television station located in, , and serving  across the international border in the  (including  and ) as well as Western New Brunswick. The station is owned by the. CKMB's studios are located on Main Street on Presque Isle; it's transmitter is located along Rue Nadeau in Edmundston. To comply with CRTC regulations, CKMB-DT has auxiliary studios in the Édifice du Centre office building on Rue de l'Église in Edmundston housing master control and much of it's internal operations. On the Canada side of the border, CKMB-DT is a sister station to -licensed affiliate CJVE-DT (channel 3), while on the U.S. side it's sister stations are Presque Isle-licensed WKMB-LP (channel 6; which  at 87.7 FM) and -licensed Telemundo affiliate WPTM-TV (channel 40), as well as radio stations WTIK-FM (99.2 FM) and WHJK-FM (105.1 FM).

Due to it's affiliation with a U.S. network and large cross-border audience, CKMB has been accorded a special status by the (CRTC), exempting the station from the majority of the Canadian content ("CanCon") requirements most broadcasters in Canada are required to follow.

Early years (1960-1965)
As television began to boom in the late 1950s and early 1960s; it became clear that the Presque Isle market was large enough for more than one station, as at the time was the only station in the market.

Ultimately, broadcaster  quickly snapped up the license for UHF channel 13 in, and signed CKMB-TV on the air on April 14, 1960.

Originally, CKMB-TV was an independent station, broadcasting programs in French and English from its studio facilities in the Francophone-majority Edmundston, with Channel 13 also having an office in Presque Isle, handling advertising sales accounts from the United States side of the border.

Fox affiliation (1994-1997)
On December 15, 1994, CKMB assumed the Fox affiliation for the Presque Isle market, previously Fox had been aired in the Presque Isle market via on cable.

A week later, ownership would be transferred from the Pouliot family to, which the Pouliots owned at the time (TQS would be sold to and then to  a year later).

Return to ABC (1997-present)
The last FOX program aired on CKMB was a tape-delayed weekday airing of the Fox Kids programming block, the first ABC program aired on CKMB since the 1994 switch was the first Disney's One Saturday Morning preview special. Syndicated programming was aired in-between the two programs.

In 2001, CKMB became a -owned property when ownership was transferred from TQS to Cogeco after a joint-venture of and Cogeco purchased TQS.

In 2008, Cogeco sold CKMB to the along with it's sister stations in  and.

On April 14, 2010, CKMB celebrated it's 50th anniversary of broadcasting. The station's morning newscast provided special coverage of the festivities, including a proclamation of "CKMB ABC Channel 13 Day" by the City of Presque Isle.

Averted second loss of ABC affiliation
On May 8, 2016, ABC announced they were in talks with WATK-TV, owned by East Coast Radio Towers, Inc. (controlled by the Klauber family of ), to have a digital subchannel of WATK take over the ABC affiliation for Presque Isle from CKMB. cited concerns with having its programming airing on a Canadian-licensed station, even though CKMB was of the strongest stations affiliated with ABC in. This came several years after it's sister stations in (CJABC-TV, now CJAC-DT) and  (CKPA-DT) were stripped of their ABC affiliations due to similar concerns.

The chances of CKMB-DT keeping it's longtime ABC affiliation increased two months later in July 2016 when East Coast Radio Towers elected to renew WATK-DT2's affiliation with. The also were concerned that ABC was trying to violate CKMB's CanCon-exemption status.

On September 5, 2016, ABC announced they would renew CKMB-DT's affiliation with the network through 2025 at the latest.

CKMB-DT
CKMB-DT's main channel clears the entire ABC schedule. Syndicated programming on CKMB-DT includes Live with Kelly and Ryan, TMZ on TV, The People's Court, Debt Court with Adam Baranski, AgDay, AgDay Canada, Entertainment Tonight, and Entertainment Tonight Canada.

CKMB-DT2
CKMB-DT2, branded as Noovo Nouveau-Brunswick, clears the entire Noovo schedule. As (the Noovo affiliate of, ) has a rebroadcaster in Edmundston, this means the schedule is near-identical at times. CKMB-DT2 is carried on rebroadcasters in (CJVM-DT),  (CJVF-DT-1) and  (CJVF-DT-2), all three rebroadcasters of CKMB-DT2 are owned by The Jim Pattison Group as Noovo affiliates.

CKMB-DT3
CKMB-DT3 clears most of the This TV schedule, except for it's E/I-complaint children's programming; CKMB-DT3 instead relies on CanCon-compliant children's TV series sourced from various distributors for children's programming (using the old This Is For Kids branding but using the CKMB-DT on-screen bug)

CKMB-DT5
CKMB-DT5 is a simulcast of, the O&O covering.

CKMB-DT6
CKMB-DT6 is a simulcast of, the O&O covering.

CKMB-DT7
CKMB-DT7 is a time-shifted simulcast of CKCQ-DT, the O&O covering,. CKMB-DT7 is a de facto member of Yes TV's indieNET service, despite simulcasting CKCQ-DT's entire schedule.

News operation
CKMB-DT presently broadcasts 25 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and 1½ hours on Sundays). In addition, CKMB produces the half-hour public affairs programs Aroostook Matters (covering Northern Maine) and La vue acadienne (covering Acadians in Western New Brunswick and Northern Maine). CKMB also airs a simulcast of the CBC's 7 p.m. Maritimes Saturday newscast to cover the Anglophones population of Edmundston.

In 2013, CKMB-DT entered into a news share agreement with the, in which the station and the CBC's CBC Television and Radio-Canada O&Os in and  would share news content, staff and resources. In addition, CKMB began airing the aforementioned simulcast of the CBC Maritimes Saturday newscast, and CKMB's Edmundston bureau's weekend morning news anchor Alan Prigent became an anchor of the weekday early evening newscasts for CBSH-DT/ in, , resulting in him flying to Edmundston on Friday night to anchor CKMB's weekend morning newscasts the next Saturday.

Presque Isle native Stan Davenport joined CKMB in 2017 after being ousted from XETV-TDT in when it cancelled its newscasts after it briefly lost it's  affiliation to a subchannel of KFMB-TV.

Notable current on-air staff

 * Stan Davenport, weekday morning anchor