ZBM-TV

ZBM-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Hamilton, Bermuda, serving the British territory as an affiliate of CBS.

Channel 10 was first occupied in 1955[2] by ZBK-TV, an AFRTS station broadcasting out of the Kindley Air Force Base.

Due to an agreement between the British and American governments, the station was unable to have a signal covering the whole island.

Before then, residents living near Kindley Field at the East End of Bermuda could watch television via unauthorized reception of the TV signal on base.

[2] ZBK-TV eventually shut down in 1959, enabling ZBM to gain complete operational control of the channel.

A strike at the company took the two stations off the air for a few months in 1984, before being the only of the two channels resuming operations, with CBS programming and a five-minute newscast, Eye on Bermuda, which was later reverted to the half-hour format as Newscenter 10.