CBRT
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CBRT-DT is the television call sign for the CBC Television
's television station
in Calgary
, Alberta
, Canada
. The station broadcasts programming from the CBC Television network's national schedule alongside its own local news service.
Up until 2008, CBRT's Calgary studios were used by the 24-hour news channel CBC Newsworld
as a production centre for programs including Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now.
) became independent.
The station initially branded as "CBC 9" or "CBC Calgary", later branding as CBRT, then returning to "CBC 9" by 1982. CBRT was one of the first, if not the first, to use the network-channel number branding that has become very popular in the United States in the last few years.
in Edmonton. Following a sharp drop in ratings, localised newscasts from Calgary were restored later in the decade.
The local supper-hour programs were cut to 30 minutes length in 2000 with the launch of a national and international news program, Canada Now
from Vancouver. Seven years later, the sole Calgary newscast returned to its hour-long format under the umbrella title of CBC News at Six.
As of October 2009, CBRT now produces four local newscasts each weekday, including three half-hour programs (Calgary at Five, Calgary at 5:30, Calgary at Six) and a ten-minute late night summary (Calgary Late Night at 10:55 p.m. following the flagship network newscast The National.
Weather
Sports
Reporters
On April 1, 2011, CBRT began broadcasting in digital on channel 21, although remapping it through PSIP to channel 9.1.
CBRT-6 in Lethbridge, a mandatory market, was required to go digital or be taken off the air by the transition deadline of August 31, 2011. CBC had originally decided that none of its rebroadcasters will transition to digital. However, on August 16, 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC permission to continue operating 22 repeaters in mandatory markets, including CBRT-6, in analogue until August 31, 2012, in which by then they must either convert to digital or close down. This is pending the corporation's license renewal process, which will include an evaluation of its transition plans.
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
's television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The station broadcasts programming from the CBC Television network's national schedule alongside its own local news service.
Up until 2008, CBRT's Calgary studios were used by the 24-hour news channel CBC Newsworld
CBC Newsworld
CBC News Network is a Canadian English language Category C specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and...
as a production centre for programs including Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now.
History
CBRT went on the air at 6 pm on September 1, 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICTCICT
CICT can refer to any of the following:*CICT-TV, the Global Television Network's owned-and-operated television station in Calgary, Canada*Centre for Information and Communication Technology, Eastern University of Sri Lanka...
) became independent.
The station initially branded as "CBC 9" or "CBC Calgary", later branding as CBRT, then returning to "CBC 9" by 1982. CBRT was one of the first, if not the first, to use the network-channel number branding that has become very popular in the United States in the last few years.
News programming
The first supper-hour newscast on CBRT was called Evening Eye-Opener and later The CBC Evening News. The original late-night news was called Night Final. In 1991, the CBC cancelled the local newscast on CBRT due to corporate budget cuts and began producing a provincial newscast, CBC Alberta News from CBXTCBXT
CBXT-DT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.- History :The station first went on-air on October 1, 1961 as Edmonton's second television station; the previous CBC affiliate, CFRN, switched to the newly-established CTV on the same day. Initially,...
in Edmonton. Following a sharp drop in ratings, localised newscasts from Calgary were restored later in the decade.
The local supper-hour programs were cut to 30 minutes length in 2000 with the launch of a national and international news program, Canada Now
Canada Now
Canada Now was the early-evening national news program on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, between 2000 and 2007...
from Vancouver. Seven years later, the sole Calgary newscast returned to its hour-long format under the umbrella title of CBC News at Six.
As of October 2009, CBRT now produces four local newscasts each weekday, including three half-hour programs (Calgary at Five, Calgary at 5:30, Calgary at Six) and a ten-minute late night summary (Calgary Late Night at 10:55 p.m. following the flagship network newscast The National.
Newscast titles
- Evening Eye-Opener/Night Final (1975–early 1980s)
- CBC Evening News (early 1980s–1991)
- CBC Alberta News (1991–late 1990s)
- CBC Calgary News (late 1990s–2006)
- Calgary Tonight (late evening news bulletin; late 1990s–2006)
- CBC News: Calgary (2006–present)
News team
Current anchors- Nirmala Naidoo - weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.
- Kristina Barnes - Calgary Late Night (weeknights at 10:55 p.m.)
Weather
- Danielle Savoni - meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6 and 10:55 p.m.
Sports
- Doug Dirks - sports director; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6 and 10:55 p.m.
Reporters
- Peter Akman - general assignment reporter
- Erin Collins - general assignment reporter
- Sonya Denton - general assignment reporter
- Tara Fedun - general assignment reporter
- Dave Gilson - general assignment reporter
- Kirk Heuser - general assignment reporter
- Zulekha Nathoo - general assignment reporter
- Dave Simms - business correspondent
- Terri Trembath - videojournalist
- Colleen Underwood - general assignment reporter
Transmitters
| Station | City of licence City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... |
Channel Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... |
ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... |
Transmitter Coordinates |
| CBRT-1 | Banff Banff, Alberta Banff is a town within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately west of Calgary and east of Lake Louise.... |
5 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.009 kW | NA | 51°11′53"N 115°36′47"W |
| CBRT-2 | Drumheller Drumheller, Alberta Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Calgary... (serving Nacmine Nacmine, Alberta Nacmine is a community within the Town of Drumheller in southern Alberta, located on South Dinosaur Trail west of the downtown Drumheller site, approximately northeast of Calgary.... ) |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 51°28′3"N 112°48′16"W |
| CBRT-3 | Exshaw Exshaw, Alberta Exshaw is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. Located approximately west of downtown Calgary and east of Canmore, Exshaw is situated within the Bow River valley north of the Bow River.... |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.001 kW | NA | 51°2′8"N 115°12′54"W |
| CBRT-4 | Lake Louise Lake Louise, Alberta Lake Louise is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Improvement District No. 9 Banff . It is named for the nearby Lake Louise, which in turn was named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta , the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and the wife of John Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the... |
12 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 51°26′8"N 116°11′16"W |
| CBRT-5 | Rosemary Rosemary, Alberta Rosemary is a village in southern Alberta. It is located 30 km north-west of the city of Brooks and 14 km north of the Trans-Canada Highway. It is home to one school and several businesses.- Demographics :... |
11 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
227.25 kW | 188.7 m | 50°41′11"N 112°27′13"W |
| CBRT-6 | Lethbridge | 10 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
222 kW | 206 m | 49°44′10"N 112°48′13"W |
| CBRT-7 | Waterton Park Waterton Park, Alberta Waterton Park, commonly referred to as Waterton, is a hamlet in southwestern Alberta, Canada within Improvement District No. 4 Waterton .... |
4 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.001 kW | NA | 49°3′32"N 113°54′23"W |
| CBRT-8 | Burmis Burmis, Alberta Burmis is an unincorporated community in southern Alberta in Pincher Creek MD, located on Highway 3, southwest of Lethbridge.... |
47 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
2.014 kW | 165.5 m | 49°33′14"N 114°10′41"W |
| CBRT-9 | Pincher Creek Pincher Creek, Alberta Pincher Creek is a town in the southwest of Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies in the centre of ranching country, north of Waterton Lakes National Park.The town's mayor is Ernie Olsen.- History :... |
15 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 49°28′47"N 113°57′56"W |
| CBRT-10 | Bellevue Bellevue, Alberta Bellevue is an urban community in the Rocky Mountains within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in southwest Alberta, Canada. It was formerly incorporated as a village prior to 1979 when it amalgamated with four other municipalities to form Crowsnest Pass.... |
57 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 49°33′55"N 114°20′57"W |
| CBRT-11 | Coleman Coleman, Alberta Coleman is an urban community in the Rocky Mountains within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in southwest Alberta, Canada. It was formerly incorporated as a town prior to 1979 when it amalgamated with four other municipalities to form Crowsnest Pass.... |
17 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 49°38′41"N 114°29′40"W |
| CBRT-12 | Cardston Cardston, Alberta -Demographics:The population of the Town of Cardston according to its 2007 municipal census is 3,578.In 2006, it had a population of 3,452 living in 1,234 dwellings, a 0.7% decrease from 2001... |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.01 kW | 25 m | 49°10′53"N 113°19′37"W |
| CBRT-13 | Harvie Heights Harvie Heights, Alberta Harvie Heights is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. It is located within Alberta's Rockies on the Trans-Canada Highway approximately northwest of Canmore and immediately east of the park gate for Banff National Park.- References :... |
22 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
0.1 kW | NA | 51°7′48"N 115°23′9"W |
| CBRT-14 | Drumheller Drumheller, Alberta Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Calgary... (city grade) |
3 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 51°27′52"N 112°42′42"W |
| CBRT-15 | Cowley Cowley, Alberta Cowley is a village in the Municipal District of Pincher Creek, Alberta. It is located west of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta.It was settled in the 1880s and was named by a rancher... |
27 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
0.01 kW | NA | 49°33′14"N 114°6′9"W |
| CBRT-16 | Coutts Coutts, Alberta Coutts is a village in Alberta and the location of one of the busiest Canada – US border crossings in western Canada. It connects Highway 4 to Interstate 15, an important trade route between Alberta, American states along I-15, and Mexico.In 2004, a joint border facility opened in Coutts-Sweet... /Milk River Milk River, Alberta Milk River is a town in the province of Alberta, Canada, located on and named after the Milk River, which flows immediately to its south. It is south of Lethbridge, and from the Canada-U.S. border. It is primarily a service centre for the many farms and cattle ranches which surround... |
4 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
0.42 kW | 77.1 m | 49°4′34"N 112°1′43"W |
| CBRT-17 | Exshaw Exshaw, Alberta Exshaw is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. Located approximately west of downtown Calgary and east of Canmore, Exshaw is situated within the Bow River valley north of the Bow River.... |
34 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
0.005 kW | NA | 51°2′8"N 115°12′54"W |
| CBCA-TV-1 | Etzikom | 12 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
40 kW | 147.7 m | 49°33′59"N 111°7′55"W |
Digital television and high definition
| Analog Channel | Virtual Channel | Digital Channel | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 9.1 | 21.1 | main CBRT programming / CBC |
On April 1, 2011, CBRT began broadcasting in digital on channel 21, although remapping it through PSIP to channel 9.1.
CBRT-6 in Lethbridge, a mandatory market, was required to go digital or be taken off the air by the transition deadline of August 31, 2011. CBC had originally decided that none of its rebroadcasters will transition to digital. However, on August 16, 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC permission to continue operating 22 repeaters in mandatory markets, including CBRT-6, in analogue until August 31, 2012, in which by then they must either convert to digital or close down. This is pending the corporation's license renewal process, which will include an evaluation of its transition plans.