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.
As part of the cutbacks, the CBC ended the local operations of CJBR-TV, CBGAT, and CBST.
In 2009, Radio-Canada applied to the CRTC for permission to convert CJBR back into a full-fledged station, with CBGAT and CBST as its satellites.
However, Radio-Canada was not obligated to convert or close down this station, as Rimouski was not a mandatory market for digital conversion.
[7] In addition to CBST and CBGAT, CJBR had approximately 45 analogue television rebroadcasters in on the Gaspé Peninsula and the Côte-Nord regions of Quebec.
Le Téléjournal/Est du Québec, a separate weeknight newscast at 6:00 p.m., focuses on news in Eastern Quebec.
[9] Until its closedown in August 2021, CKRT-DT in Rivière-du-Loup, which has long rebroadcast CJBR-TV's newscasts, also carried the program.