CBKST
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| Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada's Own |
| Channels | 11 (VHF) / Cable 12 Cable 3 (SaskTel) analog |
| 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.
[edit] History
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.
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Saskatoon stations |
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| Battleford-North Battleford stations: CFQC-2 6 (CTV) - CBKST-10 7 (CBC) - CBKFT-12 41 (SRC) |
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| See also, broadcast television in the Regina, Prince Albert, Yorkton, Swift Current, and Lloydminster, AB/SK markets | ||
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Local television stations |
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| Regional cable television channels Saskatchewan Communications Network |
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| Defunct local television stations |
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| See also, broadcast television in the Saskatoon, Regina, Swift Current, and Yorkton markets | ||
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CKSA 2 (Lloydminster) - CBKT 9 (Regina) - CBKST 11 (Saskatoon) |
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| Note: Stations in bold text are CBC owned-and-operated stations. | |
| See also: CTV, Global, SRC and Other stations in Saskatchewan | |
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