CBUT
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| Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | "Canada's Own" |
| Channels | 2 (VHF) / Cable 3 analog, 58 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | CBC |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Call letters meaning | C B C Vancouver Television |
| Former affiliations | None |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW 593.1 m HAAT |
| Website | CBC British Columbia |
CBUT is the CBC's television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the flagship CBC-TV station for the Pacific Time zone. CBUT is the oldest television station in Western Canada first going on the air on December 16, 1953. From the station's launch until 1976, CBUT had broadcast mainly in English, with French-language shows aired on Sunday mornings; CBUT switched exclusively to English with the launch of CBUFT in 1976.
The station transmits its main terrestrial signal from a tower atop Mount Seymour.
As of February 19, 2007, CBUT returned to a hour-long local newscast with the debut of a local edition of CBC News at Six, retaining the Canada Now name and hosted by former national Canada Now hosts Ian Hanomansing and Gloria Macarenko; in past years, the supper hour newscast (which was fully local until the introduction of the national Canada Now) was known as Hourglass, CBC Evening News, Newscentre and Broadcast One. CBUT also currently produces a number of CBC Television programs. Portions of Marketplace and the program Hemispheres are produced at CBUT, as were the now-cancelled national version of Canada Now and the late-night independent film program ZeD.
CBUT was known mainly as Channel 2 from its inception until 1976. Since then, it has been known as CBC British Columbia.
In recent years, CBUT, as with all CBC-owned stations, had de-emphasized local programming in favour of network programming out of Toronto. As of 2002, the station only aired sporadic local non-news programming and dropped all use of local station IDs in favour of using only network IDs, and in budget cuts, the CBC integrated CBUT's master control (as did all other owned stations) into Toronto's master control. Recently, however, local programming on CBUT has increased with the introduction of a locally-themed lifestyles program, Living Vancouver, and a local noon-hour newscast called CBC News at Noon.
In addition to British Columbia, CBUT has a significant American audience in Washington state. It is available over the air in Bellingham. Nearly one million Comcast cable subscribers in the Puget Sound region can receive CBUT's programming.
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[edit] Programming
[edit] Locally produced programs on CBUT
- CBC News at Noon (local noon-hour newscast)
- Canada Now (local supper-hour newscast - retained the name for the local show following the cancellation of the national newscast)
- Hockey Night in Canada (when Vancouver Canucks home games air)
- Living Vancouver (lifestyles)
[edit] Locally produced programs formerly aired on CBUT
Some of these programs were also seen on the CBC network, either regionally or nationally.
- Aquarium (aquatic wildlife profiles)
- @ The End (current affairs discussion)
- BC Schools Telecasts (educational)
- Bob Switzer Show/Switzer Unlimited (talk show)
- Booked on Saturday Night (literature discussion)
- Camera West (documentary films)
- Canada Now (national supper-hour newscast)
- Canadian Gardener (gardening)
- Cariboo Country (drama)
- Celebrity Cooks (cooking)
- Dr. Bundolo (sketch comedy)
- Good Rockin' Tonite (music videos)
- Hockey Talk (sports talk)
- In The Company of Women (current affairs discussion)
- Klahanie (outdoor activities)
- Leo and Me (comedy)
- Lotus Land (arts and entertainment magazine)
- Night Final (local late-night newscast)
- Northwood (teen drama)
- Pacific Report (current affairs)
- Reach For The Top (quiz show)
- See BC on CBC (documentary films)
- Sportfishing BC (outdoor activities)
- Talkback Live (current affairs call-in)
- The Beachcombers (drama)
- The 11th Hour (sketch comedy)
- The Inventors (inventions)
- The Score (sports talk)
- Urban Peasant (cooking)
- Wok with Yan (Oriental cooking)
- Wolfman Jack Show (musical variety)
- ZeD (independent short films)
- Zero Avenue (arts and entertainment magazine)
[edit] Station Presentation
 Original CBUT logo, used in station IDs and print ads from 1953 to 1976 |
 Broadcast 1 CBUT's local newscast in the late 90s. |
 Broadcast 1 with Erica Johnson |
 Canada Now open from 2000. |
 Canada Now open from 2001 - early 2006. |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
| Vancouver / Victoria stations
CBUT 2 (CBC) - CHEK 6 (CH) - CHAN 8 (Global) - CKVU 10 (Citytv) - CFEG 19 (IND/Rel.) - CBUFT 26 (SRC) - CIVT 32 (CTV) - CHNM 42/29 (IND) - CIVI 53/17 (A-Channel) - CHNU 66 (OMNI) |
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| Bellingham, Washington stations (part of the Seattle/Tacoma market) KVOS 12 (IND) - K22HH 22 (TBN) - KBCB 24 (ShopNBC) - KDNB-LP 43 (Daystar) |
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| Local cable television stations Canada: Coast Cable 11 (Gibsons) - Fairchild - Knowledge Network - Shaw TV/ictv (Vancouver) - Shaw TV (Nanaimo) - Sportsnet Pacific - Talentvision |
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Seattle/Tacoma stations available on cable television |
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| See also: Broadcast Television in the Seattle-Tacoma Market | ||
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CBUT 2 (Vancouver/Victoria) - CKPG 2 (Prince George) - CFTK 3 (Terrace/Kitimat) - CJDC 5 (Dawson Creek) |
