CBOFT

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CBOFT
Ottawa, Ontario
Branding	Radio-Canada Ontario-Outaouais
Slogan	Ici comme dans la vie
Channels	9 (VHF) / Cable 5 analog, 22 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Radio-Canada
Owner	Societé Radio-Canada
Founded	June 24, 1955
Call letters meaning	C B C Ottawa French Television
Former affiliations	TVA (secondary, mid-1970s)
Transmitter Power	252kw
Website	Radio-Canada Ottawa

CBOFT is the Radio-Canada station serving franco-ontarians in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, and the Québécois on the Quebec side of the Ottawa Valley. It is also the flagship of the provincewide "Ontario-Outaouais" network. ("Outaouais" is French for "Ottawa", usually in reference to the river and the valley, and not the capital, which francophones call "Ottawa", like the English.)

It is the network's primary affiliate in Ontario. Toronto's CBLFT and its rebroadcasters, including the previously-separate CBEFT in Windsor, are now officially desginated as repeaters of CBOFT, as the CBLFT "local" newscast is in fact now produced in Ottawa. The station identifies itself as "[Societé] Radio-Canada: Ontario-Outaouais" on-air, reflecting its de-facto status as driving a repeater chain feeding all of Ontario and part of Québec (Ottawa-Gatineau and the National Capital Region being divided between two provinces).

Before CBOFT went to air in 1955, CBOT aired both CBC and SRC programs.

For a brief time in the mid-1970s, until CHOT opened in 1978, CBOFT also carried some TVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate, CFVO ch.30 (now CIVO) went broke.