| City of license | Calgary, Alberta |
|---|---|
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada Lives Here |
| Channels | Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 9.1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | September 1, 1975 |
| Call letters' meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CalgaRy Television |
| Sister station(s) | CBR (AM), CBR-FM |
| Former callsigns | CBRT (1975-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 9 (UHF, 1975-2011) |
| Transmitter power | 23.5 kW |
| Height | 276.3 m |
| Website | CBC Calgary |
CBRT-DT is the television call sign for the CBC Television's television station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The station broadcasts programming from the CBC Television network's national schedule alongside its own local news service.
Up until 2008, CBRT's Calgary studios were used by the 24-hour news channel CBC Newsworld as a production centre for programs including Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now.[1]
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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 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.
The first supper-hour newscast on CBRT was called Evening Eye-Opener and later The CBC Evening News. The original late-night news was called Night Final. In 1991, the CBC cancelled the local newscast on CBRT due to corporate budget cuts and began producing a provincial newscast, CBC Alberta News from CBXT in Edmonton. Following a sharp drop in ratings, localised newscasts from Calgary were restored later in the decade.
The local supper-hour programs were cut to 30 minutes length in 2000 with the launch of a national and international news program, Canada Now from Vancouver. Seven years later, the sole Calgary newscast returned to its hour-long format under the umbrella title of CBC News at Six.
As of October 2009, CBRT now produces four local newscasts each weekday, including three half-hour programs (Calgary at Five, Calgary at 5:30, Calgary at Six) and a ten-minute late night summary (Calgary Late Night at 10:55 p.m. following the flagship network newscast The National.
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| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CBRT-1 | Banff | 5 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-2 | Drumheller (serving Nacmine) |
6 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-3 | Exshaw | 6 (VHF) | 0.001 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-4 | Lake Louise | 12 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-5 | Rosemary | 11 (VHF) | 227.25 kW | 188.7 m | |
| CBRT-6 | Lethbridge | 10 (VHF) | 222 kW | 206 m | |
| CBRT-7 | Waterton Park | 4 (VHF) | 0.001 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-8 | Burmis | 47 (UHF) | 2.014 kW | 165.5 m | |
| CBRT-9 | Pincher Creek | 15 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-10 | Bellevue | 57 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-11 | Coleman | 17 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-12 | Cardston | 6 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | 25 m | |
| CBRT-13 | Harvie Heights | 22 (UHF) | 0.1 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-14 | Drumheller (city grade) |
3 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-15 | Cowley | 27 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBRT-16 | Coutts/Milk River | 4 (VHF) | 0.42 kW | 77.1 m | |
| CBRT-17 | Exshaw | 34 (UHF) | 0.005 kW | NA | |
| CBCA-TV-1 | Etzikom | 12 (VHF) | 40 kW | 147.7 m |
| Analog Channel | Virtual Channel | Digital Channel | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 9.1 | 21.1 | main CBRT programming / CBC |
On April 1, 2011, CBRT began broadcasting in digital on channel 21, although remapping it through PSIP to channel 9.1.
CBRT-6 in Lethbridge, a mandatory market, was required to go digital or be taken off the air by the transition deadline of August 31, 2011. CBC had originally decided that none of its rebroadcasters will transition to digital. However, on August 16, 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC permission to continue operating 22 repeaters in mandatory markets, including CBRT-6, in analogue until August 31, 2012, in which by then they must either convert to digital or close down. This is pending the corporation's license renewal process, which will include an evaluation of its transition plans.[5][6]
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