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CBC Television

January 17, 2023

This article is about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television network. For other uses, see CBC Television (disambiguation).

CBC Television (also known as CBC TV)[1][2] is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé.

CBC Television
Logo used since 2017
TypeBroadcast television network
CountryCanada
AffiliatesList of member stations
Programming
Picture formatHDTV 720p
Ownership
OwnerCanadian Broadcasting Corporation
Key peopleBarbara Williams, executive vice president, CBC English-language services
History
FoundedSeptember 6, 1952; 70 years ago (1952-09-06)
LaunchedSeptember 6, 1952; 70 years ago (1952-09-06)
Links
Websitewww.cbc.ca/television/

With main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers. CBC Television can also be live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform.[3] Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.

Overview

 
This alternate logo was used by CBC Television for print ads and program promos from the 1960s until 1974. A version of this logo was also used for CBC Radio (with "Radio" replacing "Television"). However, this was never used as an official logo for CBC Television.

CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and children's programming; in most cases, feeding the same programming at the same local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late".

On October 9, 2006, at 6:00 a.m., the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most CBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.).

Instead of the infomercials aired by most private stations, or a simulcast of CBC News Network in the style of BBC One's nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel, the CBC uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, films and other programming from the CBC library.[4]

Its French counterpart, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, which continued to sign off every night for several years thereafter, now broadcasts a simulcast of its sister news network Ici RDI after regular programming ends for the night until the next programming day begins.

While historically there has been room for regional differences in the schedule, as there is today (see "Stations", below), for CBC-owned stations, funding has decreased to the point that most of these stations no longer broadcast any significant local programming beyond local newscasts and an edition of the summer regional documentary series Absolutely Canadian.[5]

Until 1998, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global. Since then, it has restricted itself to Canadian programs, a handful of British programs, and a few American films and off-network repeats. Since this change, the CBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995, although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years. In the 2007–08 season, popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border helped the network achieve its strongest ratings performance in over half a decade.[6]

 
Logo used by CBC Television from 2001 to 2009. Previous variants of the logo retained the CBC logo, but the text was in a different font.

In 2002, CBC Television and CBC News Network became the first broadcasters in Canada that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming. On those networks, only outside commercials need not be captioned, though a bare majority of them are aired with captions. All shows, bumpers, billboards, promos and other internal programming must be captioned. The requirement stems from a human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug,[7] which was settled in 2002.[8]

Programming

See also: List of programs broadcast by CBC Television

News and current affairs

See also: CBC News

The CBC's flagship newscast, The National, airs Sunday through Fridays at 10:00 p.m. local time (except in Newfoundland, where it airs at 10:30 p.m.) and Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. EST. Until October 2006, CBC owned-and-operated stations aired a second broadcast of the program at 11:00 p.m.; this later broadcast included only the main news portion of the program, and excluded the analysis and documentary segment. This second airing was later replaced with other programming, and as of the 2012-13 television season, was replaced on CBC's major market stations by a half-hour late newscast. There is also a short news update, at most, on late Saturday evenings. During hockey season, this update is usually found during the first intermission of the second game of the doubleheader on Hockey Night in Canada.

The show is also simultaneously broadcasts rolling coverage from CBC News Network from noon to 1 p.m. local time in most time zones (also from 6 to 7 a.m. in regions where a local CBC Radio One morning show is not simulcast instead).

In addition to the mentioned late local newscasts, CBC stations in most markets fill early evenings with local news programs, generally from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., while most stations also air a single local newscast on weekend evenings (comprising a supper hour broadcast on Saturdays and a late evening newscast on Sundays). Weekly newsmagazine the fifth estate is also a CBC mainstay, as are documentary series such as Doc Zone.

Sports

See also: CBC Sports and Sportsnet

One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games, Hockey Night in Canada. It has been televised by the network since 1952. During the NHL lock-out and subsequent cancellation of the 2004–05 hockey season, CBC instead aired various recent and classic films, branded as Movie Night in Canada, on Saturday nights. Many cultural groups criticized this and suggested the CBC air games from minor hockey leagues; the CBC responded that most such broadcast rights were already held by other groups, but it did base each Movie Night broadcast from a different Canadian hockey venue. Other than hockey, CBC Sports properties included Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto FC soccer,[9] and various other amateur and professional events.

The telecast of the Olympics including Summer and Winter Olympic Games at Canadian television on CBC's broadcast started in 1956. It has the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games until 2024.[10]

It was also the exclusive carrier of Canadian Curling Association events during the 2004–05 season. Due to disappointing results and fan outrage over many draws being carried on CBC Country Canada (now called Cottage Life), the association tried to cancel its multiyear deal with the CBC signed in 2004. After the CBC threatened legal action, both sides eventually came to an agreement under which early-round rights reverted to TSN. On June 15, 2006, the CCA announced that TSN would obtain exclusive rights to curling broadcasts in Canada as of the 2008–09 season,[11] shutting the CBC out of the championship weekend for the first time in 40-plus years.

CBC Sports suffered another major blow when it was announced that after the 2007 season, the CFL regular season games and the Grey Cup would be moving to TSN, ending the CBC's tenure with the CFL. It has been stated that the CFL was not happy with the CBC's lacklustre production during the CBC's 2005 union lock-out, which forced the network to use CBC management to work the behind the scenes telecast and use stadium public address announcers in place of their regular announcer crew.[12]

On June 23, 2007, the network aired the first game in a two-year deal to broadcast Toronto Blue Jays games;[13] the contract ended at the end of the 2008 season, and was not renewed.

In August 2007, it was also announced that the CBC would broadcast National Basketball Association games involving the Toronto Raptors, starting with the 2007–08 NBA season, through at least 2009–10; the CBC would carry 10 games for the 2007–08 and 20 games for the 2008-09 and 2009–10 seasons.[14]

In November 2013, CBC lost its rights to the NHL to Rogers Communications, under a 12-year deal beginning in the 2014–15 NHL season. The CBC concurrently announced a sub-licensing agreement with Rogers, under which it would supply Sportsnet-produced Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts to CBC Television at no charge; all advertising during the broadcasts would be sold by Rogers, but the CBC would be provided with advertising time for its own programs.[15] Officially, the broadcasts are carried by a CRTC-licensed part-time network operated by Rogers and affiliated with all CBC Television stations. This was required to formally assign responsibility for the broadcasts to Rogers; on-air, the telecasts otherwise use CBC branding and continuity.[16]

As a result of funding reductions from the federal government and decreased revenues, in April 2014, CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sport broadcasting rights.[17]

Entertainment

Among CBC Television's best-known primetime series are comedy series Rick Mercer Report (2004–18), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (since 1993) and Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007–12), and dramas such as The Tudors (2007–10), Heartland (since 2007) and Intelligence (2006–07). In recent years, British series such as Coronation Street and Doctor Who have been given greater prominence. As noted above, it now carries very little American programming apart from some syndicated daytime shows.

In 2006, the CBC announced radical changes to its primetime line-up, including the following new series to premiere that fall:

Many were surprised by these changes to the CBC schedule, which were apparently intended to attract a younger audience to the network; some suggested they might alienate the core CBC viewership. Another note of criticism was made when the network decided to move The National in some time zones to simulcast the American version of The One over the summer. This later became a moot point, as The One was taken off the air after two weeks after extremely low American and Canadian ratings, and the newscast resumed its regular schedule.

In 2006, daytime programming was also revamped. While there were still repeats of CBC and foreign series, new talk shows such as The Gill Deacon Show (2006–07) and the regional franchise Living (2007–09) were aired. The Gill Deacon Show was cancelled after just seven months, and replaced with another talk show, Steven and Chris from 2008 to 2015 (Steven and Chris is also shown on the Live Well Network in the United States); Living was cancelled in August 2009.

On January 9, 2007, the CBC began airing a highly publicized new series called Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007–12), a comedy about a Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan. The series garnered strong ratings as well as international media attention, for most of its five year run. It was also announced that Martha Stewart's daytime show would be added to the CBC daytime line-up, with the nighttime Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! following in September 2008 (with a few edits to limit the amount of U.S. advertising).[18]

In January 2008, CBC Television launched the drama series The Border (2008–10), MVP (2008) and jPod (2008), the reality series The Week The Women Went (2008–09) and the comedy Sophie from 2008 to 2009. Only The Border and Sophie were renewed for a second season in the fall of 2008. The new series Being Erica (2009–10) and the short-lived Wild Roses (2009) began airing in January 2009.

Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who, for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode. This arrangement continued until the end of fourth season, broadcast in 2008. The CBC similarly contributed to the first season of the spin-off series, Torchwood.[19] More recently, the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series, including the drama series Janet King[20] and Love Child,[21] and the comedy-drama series Please Like Me.[21]

CBC Gem

CBC Gem is CBC Television's video-on-demand platform; it includes streaming of live and on-demand programming from CBC Television, a number of short-form comedy, drama, and non-fiction web series; Canadian feature-length, short, and documentary films, and selected international programming from other public broadcasters around the world.[22]

The service is available via the web and as a mobile app (formerly the CBC TV app). Gem also offers a premium subscription including ad-free video on-demand, as well as CBC News Network.[22][23][24] New and upcoming shows like TopLine can be watched on CBC Gem. [25]

Children's programming

Children's programming, often marketed as "CBC Kids" and "The Outlet", occupies most of the morning hours on weekdays and much of weekend mornings.

CBC HD

 

On March 5, 2005, CBC Television launched a high definition simulcast of its Toronto (CBLT-DT) and Montreal (CBMT-DT) stations. Since that time, the network has also launched HD simulcasts in Vancouver (CBUT-DT), Ottawa (CBOT-DT), Edmonton (CBXT-DT), Calgary (CBRT-DT), Halifax (CBHT-DT), Windsor, (CBET-DT), Winnipeg (CBWT-DT), and St. John's (CBNT-DT). CBC HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free over-the-air using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new television sets) on the following channels:

City Station OTA digital channel
(virtual channel)		 Digital OTA
launch date
Calgary, Alberta CBRT-DT 21 (9.1) April 1, 2011[26]
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island CBCT-DT 13 (13.1) August 31, 2011[27]
Edmonton, Alberta CBXT-DT 42 (5.1) April 1, 2011[28]
Fredericton, New Brunswick CBAT-DT 31 (4.1) August 31, 2011[27]
Halifax, Nova Scotia CBHT-DT 39 (3.1) August 31, 2011[29]
Montreal, Quebec CBMT-DT 20 (6.1) February 21, 2005[30]
Ottawa, Ontario CBOT-DT 25 (4.1) September 13, 2006[31]
Regina, Saskatchewan CBKT-DT 9 (9.1) August 31, 2011[27]
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador CBNT-DT 8 (8.1) August 31, 2011[32]
Toronto, Ontario CBLT-DT 20 (5.1) March 5, 2005[33]
Vancouver, British Columbia CBUT-DT 43 (2.1) January 9, 2006[34]
Windsor, Ontario CBET-DT 9 (9.1) August 31, 2011[35]
Winnipeg, Manitoba CBWT-DT 27 (6.1) December 9, 2011[36]
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories CFYK-DT 8 (8.1) August 1, 2012[27]

All HD channels map to their analogue positions via the North American PSIP virtual channeling standard.

In fall 2007, the CBC upgraded its Toronto facilities, becoming the second fully HD news broadcaster in Canada. The National and all its news programs originating from the same news studio in Toronto (including CBC News: Sunday Night) are now available in HD.

On September 1, 2011, as part of the analogue television shutoff and digital conversion, all CBC over-the-air HD broadcasts switched from the 1080i to 720p resolution format.[37]

In August 2012, after the CBC shut down all of their remaining analogue transmitters, CBC television (as well as CBC News Network) began broadcasting all programming solely in the 16:9 aspect ratio and began letterboxing its widescreen feed for standard definition viewers just as Ici Radio-Canada Télé has done since September 2007.

Stations

See also: List of CBC television stations
See also: List of defunct CBC and Radio-Canada television transmitters

All CBC television stations, including those in major cities, are owned and operated by the CBC itself. CBC owned-and-operated (O&O) stations operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the main network schedule, although there are some regional differences from time to time. For on-air identification, most CBC stations use the CBC brand rather than their call letters, not identifying themselves specifically until sign-on or sign-off (though some, like Toronto's CBLT, do not ID themselves at all except through PSIP). All CBC O&O stations have a standard call letter naming convention, in that the first two letters are "CB" (an ITU prefix in the CA-CE block allocated not to Canada (whose block is CF-CK), but to Chile) and the last letter is "T". Only the third letter varies from market to market; however, that letter is typically the same as the third letter of the CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 stations in the same market. An exception to this rule are the CBC North stations in Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Iqaluit, whose call signs begin with "CF" due to their historic association with the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package prior to the advent of microwave and satellite broadcasting.[citation needed]

Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities were private affiliates of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporated CBC programming within their schedules. Such stations generally followed the CBC schedule, airing a minimum 40 hours per week of network programming. However, they often chose to opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters, such as CTV Two, which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the CBC programming being displaced may have been broadcast at a different time than the network, or were not broadcast on the station at all. Most private affiliates generally opted out of CBC's afternoon schedule and Thursday night arts programming. Private affiliates carried the 10 p.m. broadcast of The National as a core part of the CBC schedule, but generally omitted the 11 p.m. repeat (which is no longer broadcast). Most private affiliates produce their own local newscasts for a duration of at least 35 minutes. Some of the private affiliates later began adding CBC's overnight programming to their schedules since the network began broadcasting 24 hours a day in October 2006.[citation needed]

Following the disaffiliation of the last privately owned CBC affiliate CKSA-DT in Lloydminster on August 31, 2016, no more private stations operate as CBC affiliates, as many such stations have been purchased either by the CBC itself or by Canwest Global or CHUM Limited, respectively becoming E! (a small system owned by Canwest, but separate from its fully national Global Television Network) or A-Channel (later A, now CTV Two) stations. One private CBC affiliate, CHBC-TV in Kelowna, joined E! (then known as CH) on February 27, 2006. When a private CBC affiliate reaffiliated with another network, the CBC normally added a retransmitter of its nearest O&O station to ensure that CBC service is continued. However, due to an agreement between CHBC and CFJC-TV in Kamloops, CFJC also disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27, 2006, but no retransmitters were installed in the licence area. Former private CBC affiliates CKPG-TV Prince George and CHAT-TV Medicine Hat disaffiliated on August 31, 2008, and joined E!, but the CBC announced it would not add new retransmitters to these areas. Incidentally, CFJC, CKPG and CHAT are all owned by an independent media company, Jim Pattison Group. With the closure of E! and other changes in the media landscape, several former CBC affiliates subsequently joined CTV, Citytv or Global, or closed altogether.[citation needed]

According to filings to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Thunder Bay Electronics (owner of CBC's Thunder Bay affiliate CKPR-DT)[38] and Bell Media (owner of CBC affiliates CFTK-TV in Terrace and CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek),[citation needed] the CBC informed them that it would not extend its association with any of its private affiliates beyond August 31, 2011. Incidentally, that was also the date for analogue to digital transition in Canada. Given recent practice and the CBC's decision not to convert any retransmitters to digital, even in markets with populations in the hundreds in thousands, it was not expected that the CBC would open new transmitters to replace its affiliates, and indeed pared back its existing transmitter network to just its digital transmitters in July 2012. However, in March 2011, CKPR announced that it had come to a programming agreement with the CBC, in which the station would continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay for a period of five years.[39]

On March 16, 2012, Astral Media announced the sale of its assets to Bell Media, owners of CTV and CTV Two, for $3.38 billion with CFTK and CJDC included in the acquisition.[40] Both stations subsequently became CTV Two stations.

CBC television stations in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, branded as CBC North, tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages such as Inuktitut, Gwichʼin and Dene.[citation needed]

CBC Television worldwide

Carriage of CBC News

From 1994 through July 2005, CBC Television's news programming was aired in the United States on Newsworld International.

On September 11, 2001, several American broadcasters without their own news operations, including C-SPAN and Home Shopping Network, carried the CBC's coverage of the terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. In the days after September 11, C-SPAN carried CBC's nightly newscast, The National, anchored by Peter Mansbridge.[citation needed]

C-SPAN has also carried CBC's coverage of major events affecting Canadians. Among them:

Several PBS stations also air some CBC programs, especially The Red Green Show, although no CBC programming currently airs on the full network schedule.

For a number of years CBC co-produced a news programme, Hemispheres, with Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC; the program was hosted from Sydney and Vancouver and included reports from both networks' foreign correspondents. It was broadcast in both Canada and Australia and across Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Network.

Canada–United States border audiences

CBC Television stations can be received over-the-air or through cable in many American communities along the Canada–United States border, and have a significant audience in those areas.

CBC's sports coverage has also attained high viewership in border markets, including its coverage of the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs, which was generally considered to be more complete and consistent than coverage by other networks such as NBC. Its coverage of the Olympic Games also found a significant audience in border regions, primarily due to the fact that CBC aired more events live than NBC's coverage, which had been criticized in recent years for tape delaying events to air in primetime, even if the event is being held in a market in the Pacific Time Zone during primetime hours on the East (where it would still be delayed for West Coast primetime).[41]

Over-the-air digital television transition

See also: Digital television in Canada

The CRTC ordered that in 28 "mandatory markets," full power over-the-air analogue television transmitters had to cease transmitting by August 31, 2011. Broadcasters could either continue serving those markets by transitioning analogue transmitters to digital or cease broadcasting over-the-air. Cable, IPTV, and satellite services are not involved or affected by this digital transition deadline.[citation needed]

While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31, 2011, CBC converted only about half of the analogue transmitters in mandatory areas to digital (15 of 28 markets with CBC Television stations, and 14 of 28 markets with Télévision de Radio-Canada stations). Due to financial difficulties reported by the corporation, the corporation published digital transition plans for none of its analogue retransmitters in mandatory markets to be converted to digital by the deadline. Under this plan, communities that receive analogue signals by rebroadcast transmitters in mandatory markets would lose their over-the-air signals as of the deadline. Rebroadcast transmitters account for 23 of the 48 CBC and Radio-Canada transmitters in mandatory markets. Mandatory markets losing both CBC and Radio-Canada over-the-air signals include London, Ontario (metropolitan area population 457,000) and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (metro area population 257,000). In both of those markets, the corporation's television transmitters are the only ones that were not planned to be converted to digital by the deadline.[citation needed]

Because rebroadcast transmitters were not planned to be converted to digital, many markets stood to lose over-the-air coverage from CBC or Radio-Canada, or both. As a result, only seven of the markets subject to the August 31, 2011, transition deadline were planned to have both CBC and Radio-Canada in digital, and 13 other markets were planned to have either CBC or Radio-Canada in digital. In mid-August 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC an extension, until August 31, 2012, to continue operating its analogue transmitters in markets subject to the August 31, 2011, transition deadline. This CRTC decision prevented many markets subject to the transition deadline from losing signals for CBC or Radio-Canada, or both at the transition deadline. At the transition deadline, Barrie, Ontario lost both CBC and Radio-Canada signals as the CBC did not request that the CRTC allow these transmitters to continue operating.[citation needed]

In markets where a digital transmitter was installed, existing coverage areas were not necessarily maintained. For instance, the CBC implemented a digital transmitter covering Fredericton, New Brunswick in the place of the existing transmitter covering Saint John, New Brunswick and Fredericton, and decided to maintain analogue service to Saint John. According to CBC's application for this transmitter to the CRTC, the population served by the digital transmitter would be 113,930 people versus 303,465 served by the existing analogue transmitter. In Victoria, the replacement of the Vancouver analogue transmitters with digital ones only allowed only some northeastern parts of the metropolitan area (total population 330,000) to receive either CBC or Radio-Canada.

CBC announced on April 4, 2012, that it will shut down all of its approximately 620 analogue television transmitters on July 31, 2012[42] with no plans to install digital transmitters in their place, thus reducing the total number of the corporation's television transmitters across the country down to 27. According to the CBC, this would reduce the corporation's yearly costs by $10 million. No plans have been announced to use subchannels to maintain over-the-air signals for both CBC and Radio-Canada in markets where the corporation has one digital transmitter. In fact, in its CRTC application to shut down all of its analogue television transmitters, the CBC communicated its opposition to use of subchannels, citing costs, amongst other reasons.[citation needed]

The CBC had stated that the "useful life of CBC/Radio-Canada's satellite distribution backbone for analogue transmission ends in 2013" and that it "will not reinvest in that infrastructure given the inevitability of analogue obsolescence."[43]

Despite the shutdown of the rebroadcasters, few viewers actually lost access to CBC programming due to the very high penetration of cable and satellite, which is all but essential for acceptable television in much of Canada (particularly rural areas).[citation needed]

CBC and affiliate transmitters in mandatory markets

See also: List of television stations in Canada
CBC Television (English language) Ici Radio-Canada Télé (French language)
Province Market Analog Digital Analog Digital
AB Calgary Yes Yes Yes No
AB Edmonton Yes Yes Yes Yes
AB Lethbridge Yes No Yes No
AB / SK Lloydminster Yes (affiliate) 2011-2016: Yes (affiliate)
Since 2016: No1		 No1 No1
BC Vancouver Yes Yes Yes Yes
BC Victoria Yes (Vancouver transmitter) Sidney/Saanich only
(Vancouver transmitter) 		Sidney/Saanich only
(Vancouver transmitter) 		Sidney/Saanich only
(Vancouver transmitter)
MB Winnipeg Yes Yes Yes Yes
NB Fredericton Yes (Saint John transmitter) Yes Yes No
NB Moncton Yes No Yes Yes
NB Saint John Yes No Yes No
NL St. John's Yes Yes Yes No
NS Halifax Yes Yes Yes No
ON Kitchener Yes No Yes No
ON London Yes No Yes No
ON Ottawa/Gatineau, QC Yes Yes Yes Yes
ON Thunder Bay Yes (affiliate) 2011-2014: Yes (affiliate)
Since 2014: No2		 Yes No
ON Toronto Yes3 Yes3 Yes Yes
ON Windsor Yes Yes Yes No
PE Charlottetown Yes Yes Yes No
QC Montreal Yes Yes Yes Yes
QC Quebec City Yes No Yes Yes
QC Rivière-du-Loup No4 No4 Yes (affiliate) 2011 to 2021: Yes (affiliate)
Since 2021: No4
QC Rouyn-Noranda/Val-d'Or Yes (Kearns, ON and Malartic, QC transmitters) No Yes (affiliate) 2011 to 2018: Yes (affiliate)
Since 2018: No5
QC Saguenay Yes No Yes Yes
QC Sherbrooke Yes No Yes Yes
QC Trois-Rivières Yes No Yes Yes
SK Regina Yes Yes Yes Yes
SK Saskatoon Yes No Yes No
Total 27 markets 26 yes, 1 no 14 yes, 12 no, 1 partially 26 yes, 1 no 13 yes, 13 no, 1 partially

In addition to the above noted digital transmitters, the non-mandatory market Radio-Canada transmitter in Rimouski, Quebec, CJBR-DT, was transitioned to digital on August 31, 2012. The non-mandatory market CBC Yellowknife transmitter, CFYK-DT, was transitioned to digital on July 31, 2012. Of the non-mandatory affiliates, CKWS-DT Kingston and CHEX-DT Peterborough, Ontario converted in 2013, while CFTK-TV Terrace and CJDC-TV Dawson Creek, British Columbia has yet to convert; these stations has since changed its affiliations to other networks.

1 Lloydminster's CBC affiliate, CKSA-DT, disaffiliated with the network in September 2016, changing to an affiliate of Global. CBXT Edmonton and/or CBKT Regina now serves the region via cable and satellite. Radio-Canada never had a transmitter serving the Lloydminster area.

2 Thunder Bay's CBC affiliate, CKPR-DT, disaffiliated with the network in September 2014, changing to an affiliate of CTV. CBLT now serves the city via cable and satellite.

3 The Greater Toronto Area was served by CBC Television flagship CBLT, while the Durham Region was served by an affiliate, CHEX-TV-2. CHEX-TV-2 would not be required to convert to digital until 2019.[44] CHEX-TV-2 would drop CBC programming in exchange for CTV in 2015; it since became a Global outlet for the Durham Region in 2018.

4 The Radio-Canada affiliate serving Rivière-du-Loup, CKRT-DT, ceased operations on August 31, 2021, after Radio-Canada declined to renew CKRT's affiliation, with no sufficient alternate sources available. Radio-Canada programming has since become available in the region only by cable and satellite, with CJBR-TV Rimouski seen on many cable systems. CBC Television never had a transmitter serving the Rivière-du-Loup area.

5 The Radio-Canada affiliate serving Rouyn-Noranda/Val-d'Or, CKRN-DT, ceased operations on March 25, 2018. Radio-Canada programming has since become available in the region only by cable and satellite, with CBFT Montreal seen on many cable systems. CBC Television was provided by two different repeaters: CBVD-TV channel 5 Malartic (repeating CBMT Montreal, serving Val-d'Or) and CFCL-TV-2 / CBLT-8 channel 2 in Kearns, Ontario (repeating CFCL-TV Timmins, later CBLT Toronto, serving Rouyn-Noranda); these repeaters would close with the rest of the repeater network in 2012.

History

In 2006, the CBC submitted a plan to the CRTC for transitioning the over-the-air television signals from analogue to digital. In this submission, the CBC stated that its 654 analogue transmitters reached 98% of the population, and that it planned on installing 44 digital transmitters, reaching 80% of Canadians.[45]

The CRTC decided to impose a mandatory transition date switching over-the-air television signals from analogue to digital, following consultation with CBC and the public. CBC had requested during this consultation that broadcasters be given four years to transition. Following the consultation, on May 17, 2007, the CRTC imposed a transition timeline of four years, resulting in a transition deadline of August 31, 2011, and requiring that over-the-air analogue transmitters be shut off by that date.

On July 6, 2009, the CRTC limited the August 31, 2011 transition deadline to certain mandatory markets, greatly reducing the number of transmitters needing to be transitioned. In CBC's 2009–2010 Corporate Plan, the corporation stated that it planned on having 30 transmitters broadcasting in digital by the deadline, costing $30 million.

On August 6, 2010, the CBC issued a press release stating that due to financial reasons, the CBC and Radio-Canada would only transition 27 transmitters total, one in each market where there was an originating station (i.e. a CBC or Radio-Canada television station located in that market). Further, the CBC stated in the release, that only 15 of the transmitters would be in place by August 31, 2011, due to lack of available funds, and that the remainder would not be on the air until as late as August 31, 2012.[46] Additionally, the CBC stated in the release that it was asking the CRTC for permission to continue broadcasting in analogue until the identified transmitters for transition were up and running. At the time of the press release, only eight of the corporation's transmitters (four CBC and four Radio Canada) were broadcasting in digital.

On November 30, 2010, CBC's senior director of regulatory affairs issued a letter to the CRTC regarding CBC's plans for transitioning to digital. The letter states, "CBC/Radio-Canada will not be converting its analogue retransmitters in mandatory markets to digital after August 31, 2011."[47] On December 16, 2010, some months after the CRTC issued a bulletin reminding broadcasters that analogue transmitters had to be shut off by the deadline in mandatory markets, the CBC revised the documents accompanying its August 6, 2010, news release to state that it had the money for and is striving to transition all 27 transmitters by August 31, 2011.

On March 23, 2011, the CRTC rejected an application by the CBC to install a digital transmitter serving Fredericton, New Brunswick in place of the analogue transmitter serving Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick, which would have served only 62.5% of the population served by the existing analogue transmitter.[48] The CBC issued a press release stating "CBC/Radio-Canada intends to re-file its application with the CRTC to provide more detailed cost estimates that will allow the Commission to better understand the unfeasibility of replicating the Corporation's current analogue coverage."[49] The press release further added that the CBC suggests coverage could be maintained if the CRTC were to "allow CBC Television to continue providing the analogue service it offers today – much in the same way the Commission permitted recently in the case of Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Iqaluit."

On March 29, 2011, the CRTC added the following condition of licence to over-the-air stations owned by CBC: "Unless otherwise authorized by the Commission, the licensee shall not transmit analogue television signals after 31 August 2011 in mandatory markets designated as such by the Commission in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2011-184 or transmit television signals on channels 52 to 69".[50]

On August 18, 2011, the CRTC issued a decision that allows CBC's mandatory market rebroadcasting transmitters in analogue to remain on-air until August 31, 2012.[51] Before that deadline, CBC's licence renewal process would take place and CBC's digital transition plans would be examined as part of that process. The requirement remains for all of CBC's full-power transmitters occupying channels 52 to 69 to either relocate to channels 2 to 51 or become low-power transmitters. In some cases, CBC has opted to reduce the power of existing transmitters to low-power transmitters, which will result in signal loss for some viewers.

On April 4, 2012, CBC released its budget plans, in which it announced that all of its approximately 620 analogue television transmitters would be shut down on July 31, 2012, which was earlier than planned, due to funding reductions from the federal government.[42][52][53]

On July 17, 2012, the CRTC approved the shut down of CBC's analogue transmitters, noting that "while the Commission has the discretion to refuse to revoke broadcasting licences, even on application from a licensee, it cannot direct the CBC or any other broadcaster to continue to operate its stations and transmitters."[54] On July 31, 2012, at around 11:59 p.m. in each time zone, the remaining 620 analogue transmitters were shut down, leaving the network with 27 digital television transmitters across the country, and some transmitters operated by some affiliated stations.

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This article is about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation s television network For other uses see CBC Television disambiguation This article needs to be updated The reason given is Most dates are from 2012 Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information September 2022 CBC Television also known as CBC TV 1 2 is a Canadian English language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the national public broadcaster The network began operations on September 6 1952 Its French language counterpart is Ici Radio Canada Tele CBC TelevisionLogo used since 2017TypeBroadcast television networkCountryCanadaAffiliatesList of member stationsProgrammingPicture formatHDTV 720pOwnershipOwnerCanadian Broadcasting CorporationKey peopleBarbara Williams executive vice president CBC English language servicesHistoryFoundedSeptember 6 1952 70 years ago 1952 09 06 LaunchedSeptember 6 1952 70 years ago 1952 09 06 LinksWebsitewww wbr cbc wbr ca wbr television wbr With main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over the air television stations in urban centres and as a must carry station on cable and satellite television providers CBC Television can also be live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform 3 Almost all of the CBC s programming is produced in Canada Although CBC Television is supported by public funding commercial advertising revenue supplements the network in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries which are commercial free Contents 1 Overview 2 Programming 2 1 News and current affairs 2 2 Sports 2 3 Entertainment 2 3 1 CBC Gem 2 4 Children s programming 3 CBC HD 4 Stations 5 CBC Television worldwide 5 1 Carriage of CBC News 5 2 Canada United States border audiences 6 Over the air digital television transition 6 1 CBC and affiliate transmitters in mandatory markets 6 2 History 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksOverview Edit This alternate logo was used by CBC Television for print ads and program promos from the 1960s until 1974 A version of this logo was also used for CBC Radio with Radio replacing Television However this was never used as an official logo for CBC Television CBC Television provides a complete 24 hour network schedule of news sports entertainment and children s programming in most cases feeding the same programming at the same local times nationwide except to the Newfoundland Time Zone where programs air 30 minutes late On October 9 2006 at 6 00 a m the network switched to a 24 hour schedule becoming one of the last major English language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule Most CBC owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours typically from 1 00 a m to 6 00 a m Instead of the infomercials aired by most private stations or a simulcast of CBC News Network in the style of BBC One s nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel the CBC uses the time to air repeats including local news primetime series films and other programming from the CBC library 4 Its French counterpart Ici Radio Canada Tele which continued to sign off every night for several years thereafter now broadcasts a simulcast of its sister news network Ici RDI after regular programming ends for the night until the next programming day begins While historically there has been room for regional differences in the schedule as there is today see Stations below for CBC owned stations funding has decreased to the point that most of these stations no longer broadcast any significant local programming beyond local newscasts and an edition of the summer regional documentary series Absolutely Canadian 5 Until 1998 the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global Since then it has restricted itself to Canadian programs a handful of British programs and a few American films and off network repeats Since this change the CBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995 although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years In the 2007 08 season popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border helped the network achieve its strongest ratings performance in over half a decade 6 Logo used by CBC Television from 2001 to 2009 Previous variants of the logo retained the CBC logo but the text was in a different font In 2002 CBC Television and CBC News Network became the first broadcasters in Canada that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming On those networks only outside commercials need not be captioned though a bare majority of them are aired with captions All shows bumpers billboards promos and other internal programming must be captioned The requirement stems from a human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug 7 which was settled in 2002 8 Programming EditSee also List of programs broadcast by CBC Television News and current affairs Edit See also CBC News The CBC s flagship newscast The National airs Sunday through Fridays at 10 00 p m local time except in Newfoundland where it airs at 10 30 p m and Saturdays at 6 00 p m EST Until October 2006 CBC owned and operated stations aired a second broadcast of the program at 11 00 p m this later broadcast included only the main news portion of the program and excluded the analysis and documentary segment This second airing was later replaced with other programming and as of the 2012 13 television season was replaced on CBC s major market stations by a half hour late newscast There is also a short news update at most on late Saturday evenings During hockey season this update is usually found during the first intermission of the second game of the doubleheader on Hockey Night in Canada The show is also simultaneously broadcasts rolling coverage from CBC News Network from noon to 1 p m local time in most time zones also from 6 to 7 a m in regions where a local CBC Radio One morning show is not simulcast instead In addition to the mentioned late local newscasts CBC stations in most markets fill early evenings with local news programs generally from 5 00 p m to 6 30 p m while most stations also air a single local newscast on weekend evenings comprising a supper hour broadcast on Saturdays and a late evening newscast on Sundays Weekly newsmagazine the fifth estate is also a CBC mainstay as are documentary series such as Doc Zone Sports Edit See also CBC Sports and Sportsnet One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games Hockey Night in Canada It has been televised by the network since 1952 During the NHL lock out and subsequent cancellation of the 2004 05 hockey season CBC instead aired various recent and classic films branded as Movie Night in Canada on Saturday nights Many cultural groups criticized this and suggested the CBC air games from minor hockey leagues the CBC responded that most such broadcast rights were already held by other groups but it did base each Movie Night broadcast from a different Canadian hockey venue Other than hockey CBC Sports properties included Toronto Raptors basketball Toronto FC soccer 9 and various other amateur and professional events The telecast of the Olympics including Summer and Winter Olympic Games at Canadian television on CBC s broadcast started in 1956 It has the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games until 2024 10 It was also the exclusive carrier of Canadian Curling Association events during the 2004 05 season Due to disappointing results and fan outrage over many draws being carried on CBC Country Canada now called Cottage Life the association tried to cancel its multiyear deal with the CBC signed in 2004 After the CBC threatened legal action both sides eventually came to an agreement under which early round rights reverted to TSN On June 15 2006 the CCA announced that TSN would obtain exclusive rights to curling broadcasts in Canada as of the 2008 09 season 11 shutting the CBC out of the championship weekend for the first time in 40 plus years CBC Sports suffered another major blow when it was announced that after the 2007 season the CFL regular season games and the Grey Cup would be moving to TSN ending the CBC s tenure with the CFL It has been stated that the CFL was not happy with the CBC s lacklustre production during the CBC s 2005 union lock out which forced the network to use CBC management to work the behind the scenes telecast and use stadium public address announcers in place of their regular announcer crew 12 On June 23 2007 the network aired the first game in a two year deal to broadcast Toronto Blue Jays games 13 the contract ended at the end of the 2008 season and was not renewed In August 2007 it was also announced that the CBC would broadcast National Basketball Association games involving the Toronto Raptors starting with the 2007 08 NBA season through at least 2009 10 the CBC would carry 10 games for the 2007 08 and 20 games for the 2008 09 and 2009 10 seasons 14 In November 2013 CBC lost its rights to the NHL to Rogers Communications under a 12 year deal beginning in the 2014 15 NHL season The CBC concurrently announced a sub licensing agreement with Rogers under which it would supply Sportsnet produced Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts to CBC Television at no charge all advertising during the broadcasts would be sold by Rogers but the CBC would be provided with advertising time for its own programs 15 Officially the broadcasts are carried by a CRTC licensed part time network operated by Rogers and affiliated with all CBC Television stations This was required to formally assign responsibility for the broadcasts to Rogers on air the telecasts otherwise use CBC branding and continuity 16 As a result of funding reductions from the federal government and decreased revenues in April 2014 CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sport broadcasting rights 17 Entertainment Edit Among CBC Television s best known primetime series are comedy series Rick Mercer Report 2004 18 This Hour Has 22 Minutes since 1993 and Little Mosque on the Prairie 2007 12 and dramas such as The Tudors 2007 10 Heartland since 2007 and Intelligence 2006 07 In recent years British series such as Coronation Street and Doctor Who have been given greater prominence As noted above it now carries very little American programming apart from some syndicated daytime shows In 2006 the CBC announced radical changes to its primetime line up including the following new series to premiere that fall Dragons Den reality Intelligence drama 2006 07 Rumours comedy 2006 07 Underdogs a spinoff of Marketplace Jozi H medical drama a Canadian South African co production 2006 07 The One Making a Music Star a Canadian version of the American reality show simulcast by CBC in July 2006 Canadian series was not included on the schedule 72 Hours True Crime crime documentary series aired in core of primetime for first time 2004 07 Repeats of The Hour on the main CBC network from 2005 to 2014 Many were surprised by these changes to the CBC schedule which were apparently intended to attract a younger audience to the network some suggested they might alienate the core CBC viewership Another note of criticism was made when the network decided to move The National in some time zones to simulcast the American version of The One over the summer This later became a moot point as The One was taken off the air after two weeks after extremely low American and Canadian ratings and the newscast resumed its regular schedule In 2006 daytime programming was also revamped While there were still repeats of CBC and foreign series new talk shows such as The Gill Deacon Show 2006 07 and the regional franchise Living 2007 09 were aired The Gill Deacon Show was cancelled after just seven months and replaced with another talk show Steven and Chris from 2008 to 2015 Steven and Chris is also shown on the Live Well Network in the United States Living was cancelled in August 2009 On January 9 2007 the CBC began airing a highly publicized new series called Little Mosque on the Prairie 2007 12 a comedy about a Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan The series garnered strong ratings as well as international media attention for most of its five year run It was also announced that Martha Stewart s daytime show would be added to the CBC daytime line up with the nighttime Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy following in September 2008 with a few edits to limit the amount of U S advertising 18 In January 2008 CBC Television launched the drama series The Border 2008 10 MVP 2008 and jPod 2008 the reality series The Week The Women Went 2008 09 and the comedy Sophie from 2008 to 2009 Only The Border and Sophie were renewed for a second season in the fall of 2008 The new series Being Erica 2009 10 and the short lived Wild Roses 2009 began airing in January 2009 Beginning in 2005 the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode This arrangement continued until the end of fourth season broadcast in 2008 The CBC similarly contributed to the first season of the spin off series Torchwood 19 More recently the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series including the drama series Janet King 20 and Love Child 21 and the comedy drama series Please Like Me 21 CBC Gem Edit CBC Gem is CBC Television s video on demand platform it includes streaming of live and on demand programming from CBC Television a number of short form comedy drama and non fiction web series Canadian feature length short and documentary films and selected international programming from other public broadcasters around the world 22 The service is available via the web and as a mobile app formerly the CBC TV app Gem also offers a premium subscription including ad free video on demand as well as CBC News Network 22 23 24 New and upcoming shows like TopLine can be watched on CBC Gem 25 Children s programming Edit Children s programming often marketed as CBC Kids and The Outlet occupies most of the morning hours on weekdays and much of weekend mornings CBC HD Edit On March 5 2005 CBC Television launched a high definition simulcast of its Toronto CBLT DT and Montreal CBMT DT stations Since that time the network has also launched HD simulcasts in Vancouver CBUT DT Ottawa CBOT DT Edmonton CBXT DT Calgary CBRT DT Halifax CBHT DT Windsor CBET DT Winnipeg CBWT DT and St John s CBNT DT CBC HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free over the air using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner included in most new television sets on the following channels City Station OTA digital channel virtual channel Digital OTAlaunch dateCalgary Alberta CBRT DT 21 9 1 April 1 2011 26 Charlottetown Prince Edward Island CBCT DT 13 13 1 August 31 2011 27 Edmonton Alberta CBXT DT 42 5 1 April 1 2011 28 Fredericton New Brunswick CBAT DT 31 4 1 August 31 2011 27 Halifax Nova Scotia CBHT DT 39 3 1 August 31 2011 29 Montreal Quebec CBMT DT 20 6 1 February 21 2005 30 Ottawa Ontario CBOT DT 25 4 1 September 13 2006 31 Regina Saskatchewan CBKT DT 9 9 1 August 31 2011 27 St John s Newfoundland and Labrador CBNT DT 8 8 1 August 31 2011 32 Toronto Ontario CBLT DT 20 5 1 March 5 2005 33 Vancouver British Columbia CBUT DT 43 2 1 January 9 2006 34 Windsor Ontario CBET DT 9 9 1 August 31 2011 35 Winnipeg Manitoba CBWT DT 27 6 1 December 9 2011 36 Yellowknife Northwest Territories CFYK DT 8 8 1 August 1 2012 27 All HD channels map to their analogue positions via the North American PSIP virtual channeling standard In fall 2007 the CBC upgraded its Toronto facilities becoming the second fully HD news broadcaster in Canada The National and all its news programs originating from the same news studio in Toronto including CBC News Sunday Night are now available in HD On September 1 2011 as part of the analogue television shutoff and digital conversion all CBC over the air HD broadcasts switched from the 1080i to 720p resolution format 37 In August 2012 after the CBC shut down all of their remaining analogue transmitters CBC television as well as CBC News Network began broadcasting all programming solely in the 16 9 aspect ratio and began letterboxing its widescreen feed for standard definition viewers just as Ici Radio Canada Tele has done since September 2007 Stations EditSee also List of CBC television stations See also List of defunct CBC and Radio Canada television transmitters All CBC television stations including those in major cities are owned and operated by the CBC itself CBC owned and operated O amp O stations operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the main network schedule although there are some regional differences from time to time For on air identification most CBC stations use the CBC brand rather than their call letters not identifying themselves specifically until sign on or sign off though some like Toronto s CBLT do not ID themselves at all except through PSIP All CBC O amp O stations have a standard call letter naming convention in that the first two letters are CB an ITU prefix in the CA CE block allocated not to Canada whose block is CF CK but to Chile and the last letter is T Only the third letter varies from market to market however that letter is typically the same as the third letter of the CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 stations in the same market An exception to this rule are the CBC North stations in Yellowknife Whitehorse and Iqaluit whose call signs begin with CF due to their historic association with the CBC s Frontier Coverage Package prior to the advent of microwave and satellite broadcasting citation needed Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities were private affiliates of the CBC that is stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporated CBC programming within their schedules Such stations generally followed the CBC schedule airing a minimum 40 hours per week of network programming However they often chose to opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters such as CTV Two which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market In these cases the CBC programming being displaced may have been broadcast at a different time than the network or were not broadcast on the station at all Most private affiliates generally opted out of CBC s afternoon schedule and Thursday night arts programming Private affiliates carried the 10 p m broadcast of The National as a core part of the CBC schedule but generally omitted the 11 p m repeat which is no longer broadcast Most private affiliates produce their own local newscasts for a duration of at least 35 minutes Some of the private affiliates later began adding CBC s overnight programming to their schedules since the network began broadcasting 24 hours a day in October 2006 citation needed Following the disaffiliation of the last privately owned CBC affiliate CKSA DT in Lloydminster on August 31 2016 no more private stations operate as CBC affiliates as many such stations have been purchased either by the CBC itself or by Canwest Global or CHUM Limited respectively becoming E a small system owned by Canwest but separate from its fully national Global Television Network or A Channel later A now CTV Two stations One private CBC affiliate CHBC TV in Kelowna joined E then known as CH on February 27 2006 When a private CBC affiliate reaffiliated with another network the CBC normally added a retransmitter of its nearest O amp O station to ensure that CBC service is continued However due to an agreement between CHBC and CFJC TV in Kamloops CFJC also disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27 2006 but no retransmitters were installed in the licence area Former private CBC affiliates CKPG TV Prince George and CHAT TV Medicine Hat disaffiliated on August 31 2008 and joined E but the CBC announced it would not add new retransmitters to these areas Incidentally CFJC CKPG and CHAT are all owned by an independent media company Jim Pattison Group With the closure of E and other changes in the media landscape several former CBC affiliates subsequently joined CTV Citytv or Global or closed altogether citation needed According to filings to the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC by Thunder Bay Electronics owner of CBC s Thunder Bay affiliate CKPR DT 38 and Bell Media owner of CBC affiliates CFTK TV in Terrace and CJDC TV in Dawson Creek citation needed the CBC informed them that it would not extend its association with any of its private affiliates beyond August 31 2011 Incidentally that was also the date for analogue to digital transition in Canada Given recent practice and the CBC s decision not to convert any retransmitters to digital even in markets with populations in the hundreds in thousands it was not expected that the CBC would open new transmitters to replace its affiliates and indeed pared back its existing transmitter network to just its digital transmitters in July 2012 However in March 2011 CKPR announced that it had come to a programming agreement with the CBC in which the station would continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay for a period of five years 39 On March 16 2012 Astral Media announced the sale of its assets to Bell Media owners of CTV and CTV Two for 3 38 billion with CFTK and CJDC included in the acquisition 40 Both stations subsequently became CTV Two stations CBC television stations in Nunavut the Northwest Territories and Yukon branded as CBC North tailor their programming mostly to the local native population and broadcast in many native languages such as Inuktitut Gwichʼin and Dene citation needed CBC Television worldwide EditCarriage of CBC News Edit This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message From 1994 through July 2005 CBC Television s news programming was aired in the United States on Newsworld International On September 11 2001 several American broadcasters without their own news operations including C SPAN and Home Shopping Network carried the CBC s coverage of the terror attacks in New York City and Washington D C In the days after September 11 C SPAN carried CBC s nightly newscast The National anchored by Peter Mansbridge citation needed C SPAN has also carried CBC s coverage of major events affecting Canadians Among them Canadian federal elections Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau The war in Iraq The National aired on C SPAN each night for about three weeks following the attacks on Iraq Peter Mansbridge signed off his broadcasts during that time saying I m Peter Mansbridge Thanks for watching those of you here in Canada and viewers across the United States watching us on C SPAN The power outage crisis in summer 2003 Key proceedings in Parliament of Canada such as state openings U S presidential elections In 2004 C SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians State and official visits of American presidents to Canada During MSNBC s coverage of President George W Bush s visit to Canada CBC s senior parliamentary editor Don Newman appeared on MSNBC Several PBS stations also air some CBC programs especially The Red Green Show although no CBC programming currently airs on the full network schedule For a number of years CBC co produced a news programme Hemispheres with Australia s national broadcaster the ABC the program was hosted from Sydney and Vancouver and included reports from both networks foreign correspondents It was broadcast in both Canada and Australia and across Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Network Canada United States border audiences Edit CBC Television stations can be received over the air or through cable in many American communities along the Canada United States border and have a significant audience in those areas CBC s sports coverage has also attained high viewership in border markets including its coverage of the NHL s Stanley Cup Playoffs which was generally considered to be more complete and consistent than coverage by other networks such as NBC Its coverage of the Olympic Games also found a significant audience in border regions primarily due to the fact that CBC aired more events live than NBC s coverage which had been criticized in recent years for tape delaying events to air in primetime even if the event is being held in a market in the Pacific Time Zone during primetime hours on the East where it would still be delayed for West Coast primetime 41 Over the air digital television transition EditSee also Digital television in Canada The CRTC ordered that in 28 mandatory markets full power over the air analogue television transmitters had to cease transmitting by August 31 2011 Broadcasters could either continue serving those markets by transitioning analogue transmitters to digital or cease broadcasting over the air Cable IPTV and satellite services are not involved or affected by this digital transition deadline citation needed While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31 2011 CBC converted only about half of the analogue transmitters in mandatory areas to digital 15 of 28 markets with CBC Television stations and 14 of 28 markets with Television de Radio Canada stations Due to financial difficulties reported by the corporation the corporation published digital transition plans for none of its analogue retransmitters in mandatory markets to be converted to digital by the deadline Under this plan communities that receive analogue signals by rebroadcast transmitters in mandatory markets would lose their over the air signals as of the deadline Rebroadcast transmitters account for 23 of the 48 CBC and Radio Canada transmitters in mandatory markets Mandatory markets losing both CBC and Radio Canada over the air signals include London Ontario metropolitan area population 457 000 and Saskatoon Saskatchewan metro area population 257 000 In both of those markets the corporation s television transmitters are the only ones that were not planned to be converted to digital by the deadline citation needed Because rebroadcast transmitters were not planned to be converted to digital many markets stood to lose over the air coverage from CBC or Radio Canada or both As a result only seven of the markets subject to the August 31 2011 transition deadline were planned to have both CBC and Radio Canada in digital and 13 other markets were planned to have either CBC or Radio Canada in digital In mid August 2011 the CRTC granted the CBC an extension until August 31 2012 to continue operating its analogue transmitters in markets subject to the August 31 2011 transition deadline This CRTC decision prevented many markets subject to the transition deadline from losing signals for CBC or Radio Canada or both at the transition deadline At the transition deadline Barrie Ontario lost both CBC and Radio Canada signals as the CBC did not request that the CRTC allow these transmitters to continue operating citation needed In markets where a digital transmitter was installed existing coverage areas were not necessarily maintained For instance the CBC implemented a digital transmitter covering Fredericton New Brunswick in the place of the existing transmitter covering Saint John New Brunswick and Fredericton and decided to maintain analogue service to Saint John According to CBC s application for this transmitter to the CRTC the population served by the digital transmitter would be 113 930 people versus 303 465 served by the existing analogue transmitter In Victoria the replacement of the Vancouver analogue transmitters with digital ones only allowed only some northeastern parts of the metropolitan area total population 330 000 to receive either CBC or Radio Canada CBC announced on April 4 2012 that it will shut down all of its approximately 620 analogue television transmitters on July 31 2012 42 with no plans to install digital transmitters in their place thus reducing the total number of the corporation s television transmitters across the country down to 27 According to the CBC this would reduce the corporation s yearly costs by 10 million No plans have been announced to use subchannels to maintain over the air signals for both CBC and Radio Canada in markets where the corporation has one digital transmitter In fact in its CRTC application to shut down all of its analogue television transmitters the CBC communicated its opposition to use of subchannels citing costs amongst other reasons citation needed The CBC had stated that the useful life of CBC Radio Canada s satellite distribution backbone for analogue transmission ends in 2013 and that it will not reinvest in that infrastructure given the inevitability of analogue obsolescence 43 Despite the shutdown of the rebroadcasters few viewers actually lost access to CBC programming due to the very high penetration of cable and satellite which is all but essential for acceptable television in much of Canada particularly rural areas citation needed CBC and affiliate transmitters in mandatory markets Edit See also List of television stations in Canada CBC Television English language Ici Radio Canada Tele French language Province Market Analog Digital Analog DigitalAB Calgary Yes Yes Yes NoAB Edmonton Yes Yes Yes YesAB Lethbridge Yes No Yes NoAB SK Lloydminster Yes affiliate 2011 2016 Yes affiliate Since 2016 No 1 No 1 No 1BC Vancouver Yes Yes Yes YesBC Victoria Yes Vancouver transmitter Sidney Saanich only Vancouver transmitter Sidney Saanich only Vancouver transmitter Sidney Saanich only Vancouver transmitter MB Winnipeg Yes Yes Yes YesNB Fredericton Yes Saint John transmitter Yes Yes NoNB Moncton Yes No Yes YesNB Saint John Yes No Yes NoNL St John s Yes Yes Yes NoNS Halifax Yes Yes Yes NoON Kitchener Yes No Yes NoON London Yes No Yes NoON Ottawa Gatineau QC Yes Yes Yes YesON Thunder Bay Yes affiliate 2011 2014 Yes affiliate Since 2014 No 2 Yes NoON Toronto Yes3 Yes3 Yes YesON Windsor Yes Yes Yes NoPE Charlottetown Yes Yes Yes NoQC Montreal Yes Yes Yes YesQC Quebec City Yes No Yes YesQC Riviere du Loup No 4 No 4 Yes affiliate 2011 to 2021 Yes affiliate Since 2021 No 4QC Rouyn Noranda Val d Or Yes Kearns ON and Malartic QC transmitters No Yes affiliate 2011 to 2018 Yes affiliate Since 2018 No 5QC Saguenay Yes No Yes YesQC Sherbrooke Yes No Yes YesQC Trois Rivieres Yes No Yes YesSK Regina Yes Yes Yes YesSK Saskatoon Yes No Yes NoTotal 27 markets 26 yes 1 no 14 yes 12 no 1 partially 26 yes 1 no 13 yes 13 no 1 partiallyIn addition to the above noted digital transmitters the non mandatory market Radio Canada transmitter in Rimouski Quebec CJBR DT was transitioned to digital on August 31 2012 The non mandatory market CBC Yellowknife transmitter CFYK DT was transitioned to digital on July 31 2012 Of the non mandatory affiliates CKWS DT Kingston and CHEX DT Peterborough Ontario converted in 2013 while CFTK TV Terrace and CJDC TV Dawson Creek British Columbia has yet to convert these stations has since changed its affiliations to other networks 1 Lloydminster s CBC affiliate CKSA DT disaffiliated with the network in September 2016 changing to an affiliate of Global CBXT Edmonton and or CBKT Regina now serves the region via cable and satellite Radio Canada never had a transmitter serving the Lloydminster area 2 Thunder Bay s CBC affiliate CKPR DT disaffiliated with the network in September 2014 changing to an affiliate of CTV CBLT now serves the city via cable and satellite 3 The Greater Toronto Area was served by CBC Television flagship CBLT while the Durham Region was served by an affiliate CHEX TV 2 CHEX TV 2 would not be required to convert to digital until 2019 44 CHEX TV 2 would drop CBC programming in exchange for CTV in 2015 it since became a Global outlet for the Durham Region in 2018 4 The Radio Canada affiliate serving Riviere du Loup CKRT DT ceased operations on August 31 2021 after Radio Canada declined to renew CKRT s affiliation with no sufficient alternate sources available Radio Canada programming has since become available in the region only by cable and satellite with CJBR TV Rimouski seen on many cable systems CBC Television never had a transmitter serving the Riviere du Loup area 5 The Radio Canada affiliate serving Rouyn Noranda Val d Or CKRN DT ceased operations on March 25 2018 Radio Canada programming has since become available in the region only by cable and satellite with CBFT Montreal seen on many cable systems CBC Television was provided by two different repeaters CBVD TV channel 5 Malartic repeating CBMT Montreal serving Val d Or and CFCL TV 2 CBLT 8 channel 2 in Kearns Ontario repeating CFCL TV Timmins later CBLT Toronto serving Rouyn Noranda these repeaters would close with the rest of the repeater network in 2012 History Edit In 2006 the CBC submitted a plan to the CRTC for transitioning the over the air television signals from analogue to digital In this submission the CBC stated that its 654 analogue transmitters reached 98 of the population and that it planned on installing 44 digital transmitters reaching 80 of Canadians 45 The CRTC decided to impose a mandatory transition date switching over the air television signals from analogue to digital following consultation with CBC and the public CBC had requested during this consultation that broadcasters be given four years to transition Following the consultation on May 17 2007 the CRTC imposed a transition timeline of four years resulting in a transition deadline of August 31 2011 and requiring that over the air analogue transmitters be shut off by that date On July 6 2009 the CRTC limited the August 31 2011 transition deadline to certain mandatory markets greatly reducing the number of transmitters needing to be transitioned In CBC s 2009 2010 Corporate Plan the corporation stated that it planned on having 30 transmitters broadcasting in digital by the deadline costing 30 million On August 6 2010 the CBC issued a press release stating that due to financial reasons the CBC and Radio Canada would only transition 27 transmitters total one in each market where there was an originating station i e a CBC or Radio Canada television station located in that market Further the CBC stated in the release that only 15 of the transmitters would be in place by August 31 2011 due to lack of available funds and that the remainder would not be on the air until as late as August 31 2012 46 Additionally the CBC stated in the release that it was asking the CRTC for permission to continue broadcasting in analogue until the identified transmitters for transition were up and running At the time of the press release only eight of the corporation s transmitters four CBC and four Radio Canada were broadcasting in digital On November 30 2010 CBC s senior director of regulatory affairs issued a letter to the CRTC regarding CBC s plans for transitioning to digital The letter states CBC Radio Canada will not be converting its analogue retransmitters in mandatory markets to digital after August 31 2011 47 On December 16 2010 some months after the CRTC issued a bulletin reminding broadcasters that analogue transmitters had to be shut off by the deadline in mandatory markets the CBC revised the documents accompanying its August 6 2010 news release to state that it had the money for and is striving to transition all 27 transmitters by August 31 2011 On March 23 2011 the CRTC rejected an application by the CBC to install a digital transmitter serving Fredericton New Brunswick in place of the analogue transmitter serving Fredericton and Saint John New Brunswick which would have served only 62 5 of the population served by the existing analogue transmitter 48 The CBC issued a press release stating CBC Radio Canada intends to re file its application with the CRTC to provide more detailed cost estimates that will allow the Commission to better understand the unfeasibility of replicating the Corporation s current analogue coverage 49 The press release further added that the CBC suggests coverage could be maintained if the CRTC were to allow CBC Television to continue providing the analogue service it offers today much in the same way the Commission permitted recently in the case of Yellowknife Whitehorse and Iqaluit On March 29 2011 the CRTC added the following condition of licence to over the air stations owned by CBC Unless otherwise authorized by the Commission the licensee shall not transmit analogue television signals after 31 August 2011 in mandatory markets designated as such by the Commission in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2011 184 or transmit television signals on channels 52 to 69 50 On August 18 2011 the CRTC issued a decision that allows CBC s mandatory market rebroadcasting transmitters in analogue to remain on air until August 31 2012 51 Before that deadline CBC s licence renewal process would take place and CBC s digital transition plans would be examined as part of that process The requirement remains for all of CBC s full power transmitters occupying channels 52 to 69 to either relocate to channels 2 to 51 or become low power transmitters In some cases CBC has opted to reduce the power of existing transmitters to low power transmitters which will result in signal loss for some viewers On April 4 2012 CBC released its budget plans in which it announced that all of its approximately 620 analogue television transmitters would be shut down on July 31 2012 which was earlier than planned due to funding reductions from the federal government 42 52 53 On July 17 2012 the CRTC approved the shut down of CBC s analogue transmitters noting that while the Commission has the discretion to refuse to revoke broadcasting licences even on application from a licensee it cannot direct the CBC or any other broadcaster to continue to operate its stations and transmitters 54 On July 31 2012 at around 11 59 p m in each time zone the remaining 620 analogue transmitters were shut down leaving the network with 27 digital television transmitters across the country and some transmitters operated by some affiliated stations See also EditList of CBC Television stations List of programs broadcast by CBC Television Ici Radio Canada TeleReferences Edit Vinessa Antoine to star in CBC 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