CBKST

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CBKST
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	Canada's Own
Channels	11 (VHF) analog,  ?? digital
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Founded	October 17, 1971
Call letters meaning	C B C K Saskatoon Television
Transmitter Power	325 kW (analog)
Website	CBC Saskatoon

CBKST is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which went on the air in 1971.

CFQC, the previous Saskatoon CBC affiliate which began broadcasting a combined CBC/CTV schedule in 1969, switched exclusively to CTV in 1971 with the launch of CBKST. The station's studios were originally located on the fifth floor of CN Towers, an office block located above Saskatoon's Midtown Plaza shopping centre. In 1977 it was temporarily knocked off the air for several days when a several-ton chunk of concrete fell off the side of CN Towers and went crashing into the mall below, killing one person.

In the late 1980s, cutbacks at the CBC resulted in many staff being laid off and its supper hour newscast cancelled. In the early 2000s, the station moved into a new storefront studio facility a few blocks away, on 2nd Avenue.

In 2002, CBC purchased former Prince Albert, Saskatchewan affiliate CKBI from previous owner Bell Globemedia (parent company of CTV), turning CKBI into a rebroadcaster of CBKST.

CBKST also has ties to the CBC's longest-running import, Coronation Street — according to the 2002 edition of the Guinness Book of Records, CBKST acquired 1,144 episodes of the British soap from Granada Television on May 31, 1971, the largest number of TV shows ever purchased in one transaction.

See also List of CBC television stations.

[edit] External link

• CBC Saskatoon

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