CBRT
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| Calgary, Alberta | |
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | "Canada's Own" |
| Channels | 9 / Cable 6 analog |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | CBC |
| Founded | September 1, 1975 |
| Call letters meaning | C B C Calgary Television |
| Transmitter Power | 325 kW |
| Website | CBC Calgary |
CBRT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Calgary, Alberta. It broadcasts national CBC programming, as well as a local edition of CBC News at Six which is hosted by Doug Dirks. Since he joined the show, it has steadily improved in the ratings.
CBC Newsworld also has a production centre at CBRT. It produces Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now, which is hosted by Kathleen Petty.
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CBRT went on the air at 6 pm on September 1, 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICT) became independent. The first supper-hour newscast on CBRT was called Evening Eye-Opener, later The CBC Evening News. The original late-night news was called Night Final. In 1991, the CBC cancelled the local newscast on CBRT and began producing a provincial newscast out of CBXT in Edmonton. Ratings plummeted, and in the mid-1990s Calgary Tonight was launched as a new local hour-long newscast. As with the rest of the CBC's owned-and-operated stations, the local supper-hour news was cut to 30 minutes in 2000 and became part of the hour-long Canada Now.
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.
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 Original CBRT logo in 1975 |
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| Local television stations
CICT 2 (Global) - CFCN 4 (CTV) - CKAL 5 (Citytv) - CBRT 9 (CBC) - CIAN 13 (Access/A-Channel) - CBRFT 16 (SRC) |
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| See also, broadcast television in the Edmonton, Red Deer, and Lethbridge markets | ||
| Local television stations
CKAL-TV-1 2 (Citytv) - CISA 7 (Global) - CBRT-6 10 (CBC) - CFCN-TV-5 13 (CTV) - CJIL 17 (Miracle) - CBXFT-3 23 (SRC) - CFSO 32 (IND) |
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| See also, broadcast television in the Calgary, Great Falls, and Medicine Hat markets | ||
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CKSA 2 (Lloydminster) - CBXT 5 (Edmonton) - CHAT 6 (Medicine Hat) - CBRT 9 (Calgary/Lethbridge) |
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| See also: CTV, Global, SRC and Other stations in Alberta | |
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