CBFT-DT
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Channels | |
Branding | ICI Grand Montréal |
Programming | |
Affiliations | Ici Radio-Canada Télé |
Ownership | |
Owner | Société Radio-Canada |
CBMT-DT,CBME-FM,CBM-FM,CBF-FM,CBFX-FM | |
History | |
First air date | September 6, 1952 |
Former call signs | CBFT (1952–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | Analogue:2 (VHF) (1952–2011) |
CBC(secondary, 1952–1954) | |
Call signmeaning | Canadian Broadcasting CorporationFrançaisTélévision |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
ERP | 25 kW |
HAAT | 300 m (984 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′19″N73°35′29″W/ 45.50528°N 73.59139°W |
Links | |
Website | ICI Grand Montréal |
CBFT-DT(channel 2) is atelevision stationinMontreal, Quebec,Canada, serving as theflagship stationof the French-language service ofIci Radio-Canada Télé.It isowned and operatedby theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation(known in French asSociété Radio-Canada) alongsideCBC TelevisionoutletCBMT-DT(channel 6). The two stations share studios atMaison Radio-CanadaonRené Lévesque BoulevardEast inDowntown Montreal;CBFT-DT's transmitter is located atopMount Royal.
History
[edit]CBFT was the first permanent television station in Canada (an experimental station,VE9EC,had been on the air in Montreal from 1931 to 1935). It launched on September 6, 1952, at 4 p.m., beatingCBLTinTorontoby two days. The station went on the air with themovieAladdin and His Lamp,followed by acartoon,and then aFrenchfilm, a news segment and abilingualvariety show.[1]The station aired programming in both French (60 percent) andEnglish(40 percent), a practice common for many stations in Quebec at the time.
This continued until January 10, 1954, whenCBMTwas launched onVHFchannel 6. At that time, all English programming moved to CBMT, while CBFT became a purely French-language station as the flagship of theTélévision de Radio-Canadanetwork for francophone viewers. CBMT's sign-on was hastened by the planned launch of television stations across the border inBurlington, Vermont,andPlattsburgh, New York.
Prior to the digital transition, CBFT operated a translator network that stretched across most of Quebec, parts ofOntario,and most of northern Canada (Northwest TerritoriesandNunavut). Due to a lack of sources for alternative programming, most Radio-Canada stations are effectively semi-satellites of CBFT. For the most part, their schedules are largely identical to those of CBFT, other than commercials and regional news. This was the case for privately owned Radio-Canada affiliates before the last such station closed in 2021.
Technical information
[edit]Subchannel
[edit]Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming[2] |
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2.1 | 720p | 16:9 | CBFT-DT | Main CBFT-DT programming /Ici Radio-Canada Télé |
Analogue-to-digital conversion
[edit]CBFT began broadcasting its digital signal on March 22, 2005.[3]On August 31, 2011, when Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatorymarketstransitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts,[4]the station's digital signal remained onUHFchannel 19, usingvirtual channel2.
Former rebroadcasters
[edit]CBFT had over 30 analogue television rebroadcasters throughout rural Quebec andLabrador.Due to federal funding reductions to the CBC, in April 2012, the CBC responded with substantial budget cuts, which included shutting down CBC's and Radio-Canada's remaining analogue transmitters on July 31, 2012.[5]None of CBC or Radio-Canada's rebroadcasters were converted to digital.
Quebec
[edit]City of licence | Call sign[6] | Channel | ERP (W)[7] |
Notes |
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Aguanish | CBST-7 | 8 (VHF) | 326 | |
Baie-Comeau | CBST-19 | 7 (VHF) | 1,590 | |
Baie-Johan-Beetz | CBST-8 | 7 (VHF) | 1 | |
Bearn/Fabre | CKRN-TV-3 | 3 (VHF) | ||
Beauceville | CBVT-6 | 6 (VHF) | 4 | |
Blanc-Sablon | CBST-17 | 3 (VHF) | 150 | |
Cap-Chat | CBGAT-6 | 2 (VHF) | 39 | |
Carleton | CBGAT-14 | 2 (VHF) | 3,200 | |
Causapscal | CBGAT-5 | 9 (VHF) | 11 | |
Chandler | CBGAT-15 | 8 (VHF) | 184 | |
Chapais | CBFAT-1 | 12 (VHF) | 5 | |
Chibougamau | CBFAT | 5 (VHF) | 665 | |
Chisasibi | CBFGT | 9 (VHF) | 10 | |
Clermont | CBSAT | 21 (VHF) | 10 | |
Cloridorme | CBGAT-16 | 8 (VHF) | 85 | |
Fermont | CBFT-13 | 7 (VHF) | 20 | Formerly CBST-5 |
Gaspe | CBGAT-17 | 9 (VHF) | 1,800 | |
Gethsémani/La Romaine | CBST-9 | 9 (VHF) | 10 | |
Grande-Vallee, Quebec | CBGAT-3 | 6 (VHF) | 587 | |
Cros-Morne | CBGAT-9 | 4 (VHF) | 5 | |
Harrington-Harbour | CBST-11 | 8 (VHF) | 129 | |
Havre-Saint-Pierre | CBST-1 | 12 (VHF) | 16 | |
Ile du Havre Aubert | CBIMT-1 | 16 (UHF) | 55 | |
Îles-de-la-Madeleine | CBIMT | 12 (VHF) | 2,800 | |
Inukjuak | CBFI-TV | 9 (VHF) | ||
Kuujjuaq | CBFQ-TV | 9 (VHF) | ||
Kuujjuarapik | CBFK-TV | 9 (VHF) | ||
La Tabatière | CBST-13 | 4 (VHF) | 78 | |
La Tuque | CBFT-14 | 3 (VHF) | 15,400 | Formerly CBVT-3 |
Lac-Etchemin | CBVT-4 | 55 (UHF) | 400 | |
Lac-Humqui | CBGAT-19 | 24 (UHF) | 100 | |
Lac-Megantic | CBVT-3 | 12 (VHF) | 10 | |
L'Anse-a-Valleau | CBGAT-18 | 10 (VHF) | 10 | |
Les Mechins | CBGAT-23 | 10 (VHF) | ||
Longue-Pointe-De-Min | CBST-18 | 6 (VHF) | 98 | |
Manouane | CBFT-5 | 5 (VHF) | 10 | |
Marsoui | CBGAT-8 | 12 (VHF) | 10 | |
Matane | CBGAT | 6 (VHF) | 3,700 | |
Mistassini | CBFMT | 9 (VHF) | 10 | |
Mont-Climont | CBGAT-1 | 13 (VHF) | 709 | |
Mont-Laurier | CBFT-2 | 3 (VHF) | 13,700 | |
Mont-Louis | CBGAT-4 | 2 (VHF) | 62 | |
Mont-Louis-en-Haut | CBGAT-10 | 19 (UHF) | 5,100 | |
Mont-St-Michel | CBFT-9 | 16 (UHF) | 3,000 | |
Mont-Tremblant | CBFT-1 | 11 (VHF) | 1,600 | |
Murdochville | CBGAT-2 | 10 (VHF) | 1,530 | |
Notre-Dame-Des-Monts | CBSNT | 40 (UHF) | 100 | |
Obedjiwan | CBFT-6 | 10 (VHF) | 1 | |
Old Fort Bay | CBST-15 | 7 (VHF) | 5 | |
Parent | CBFT-4 | 12 (VHF) | 10 | |
Percé | CBGAT-28 | 11 (VHF) | 20 | |
Port Daniel | CBGAT-21 | 7 (VHF) | 170 | |
Povungnituk | CBFP-TV | 9 (VHF) | 10 | |
Radisson | CBFRT | 8 (VHF) | 180 | |
Riviere-A-Claude | CBGAT-13 | 4 (VHF) | 10 | |
Riviere-Au-Renard | CBGAT-22 | 2 (VHF) | 2,900 | |
Riviere-au-Tonnerre | CBST-6 | 7 (VHF) | 1,600 | |
Riviere-St-Paul | CBST-16 | 21 (UHF) | 89 | |
Salluit | CBFS-TV | 9 (VHF) | 10 | |
Schefferville | CBFT-8 | 9 (VHF) | 89 | |
Sept-Îles | CBST | 13 (VHF) | 8,400 | |
St-Augustin | CBST-14 | 2 (VHF) | ||
Ste-Anne-des-Monts | CBGAT-11 | 8 (VHF) | 45,000 | |
St-Fabien-de-Panet | CBVT-5 | 13 (VHF) | ||
St-Marc De Latour | CJBR-TV-1 | 9 (VHF) | ||
St-Michel-des-Saints | CBFT-3 | 7 (VHF) | ||
Stoneham | CBVT-8 | 44 (UHF) | 5 | |
St-Pamphile | CBSPT | 3 (VHF) | ||
St-Rene-de-Matane | CBGAT-7 | 30 (UHF) | ||
Témiscaming | CBFST-2 | 12 (VHF) | 7,000 | |
Tête-à-la-Baleine | CBST-12 | 6 (VHF) | 5 | |
Tewkesbury | CBVT-7 | 7 (VHF) | 5 | |
Thetford Mines | CBVT-9 | 21 (UHF) | 5 | |
Ville-Marie | CKRN-TV-2 | 6 (VHF) | 5 | |
Waskaganish | CBFHT | 9 (VHF) | ||
Waswanipi | CBFV-TV | 10 (VHF) | 5 | |
Wemindji | CBFWT | 9 (VHF) | ||
Weymont | CBFT-7 | 6 (VHF) |
Labrador
[edit]City of licence | Call sign | Channel | ERP (W) |
Notes |
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Churchill Falls | CBFT-11 | 13 (VHF) | 5 | Formerly CBST-4[8] |
Labrador City | CBFT-12 | 11 (VHF) | Formerly CBST-3[8] | |
Port Au Port | CBFNT | 13 (VHF) | 14,000[9] | |
CBFNT-1 | 4 (VHF) | 291[9] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"CBC Television debuts".CBC.ca.January 19, 2011.
- ^RabbitEars TV Query for CBFT-DT
- ^"Télévision de Radio-Canada Montreal (CBFT-TV)".Archived fromthe originalon July 23, 2011.RetrievedMarch 25,2011.
- ^"Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)".Archived fromthe originalon November 20, 2013.RetrievedJune 29,2013.
- ^"Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan".April 4, 2012. Archived fromthe originalon September 18, 2012.
- ^“Microsoft Word - Analogue transmitters - emetteurs analogiques.docx”.CBC/Radio-Canada.Retrieved November 5, 2019.
- ^TV & Cable Factbook(65th ed.).Washington, D.C.:Warren Communications News. 1997. p. B-349, B-350, and B-351.
- ^abTV & Cable Factbook(65th ed.).Washington, D.C.:Warren Communications News. 1997. p. B-323.
- ^abTV & Cable Factbook(65th ed.).Washington, D.C.:Warren Communications News. 1997. p. B-324.
External links
[edit]- ICI Grand Montréal(in French)
- CBFT-DTat The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
- CBFT at TV Hat
- CBFTin the REC Canadian station database