CJBR-DT, virtual channel 2.1 (UHF digital channel 45), branded on-air as ICI Est du Québec, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated station licensed to Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). CJBR-DT's studios are located on Boulevard René-Lepage Est (near Rue Julien-Réhel) on Quebec Route 132 in Rimouski, and its transmitter is located on Chemin du Pic Champlain (near the shoreline of the Saint Lawrence River) in Saint-Fabien. CJBR-DT is the main station for three regions in eastern Quebec: Bas-Saint-Laurent, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Côte-Nord. It previously operated full-power satellites in Matane (CBGAT, channel 6) and Sept-Îles (CBST, channel 13), and rebroadcasters in other communities. On cable, CJBR-DT is available on Telus Optik TV channel 3. There is a high definition feed offered on Cogeco Cable digital channel 504, Cogeco does not carry a standard definition feed of the station. History CJBR CJBR was launched on November 21, 1954, as a privately owned Radio-Canada affiliate owned by Lower St. Lawrence Radio Inc. and associated with Central Public Service Corp. Ltd., both companies owned by the family of Jules Brillant, who also owned CJBR radio. The station would later be linked to Radio-Canada's microwave network, on August 7, 1957, and would add a repeater in Edmundston, New Brunswick, CJBR-TV-1 (later CBAFT-2) on April 1, 1962. The Brillants would sell CJBR-AM-TV to Telemedia in 1970, who, in turn, would sell the stations to Radio-Canada on August 1, 1977. CJBR switched from channel 3 to channel 2 on March 12, 1984, but the Maritimes Edition of TV Guide still had it listed as channel 3 until the Maritimes Edition folded in 2005. CJBR, however, was seen on Cogeco cable channel 3 in the Rimouski area. CBGAT CBGAT was founded by Radiodiffusion de Matane (Matane Broadcasting) as CKBL-TV on August 19, 1958. In the beginning, the station was a semi-satellite to CJBR, and broadcast on channel 9. CKBL was linked to Radio-Canada's microwave network on November 15, 1958. By 1961, the station moved its transmitter to a new location, which took the signal off the air for around a month. From 1962 to 1976, Hydro-Québec broadcast CKBL/CBGAT's signal on its own repeaters. Radio-Canada purchased the station on November 10, 1971, and the station received its current callsign sometime in 1972. Radio-Canada moved CBGAT's signal from channel 9 to channel 6 on November 29, 1978.