| British Columbia | |
|---|---|
| City of license | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada Lives Here |
| Channels | Digital: 43 (UHF) Virtual: 2.1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | December 16, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation VancoUver Television,also, CBUTrepresents Bute St.;the original street CBUT was headquartered at |
| Sister station(s) | CBUFT-DT, CBU (AM), CBU-FM, CBUF-FM, CBUX-FM |
| Former callsigns | CBUT (1953-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 2 (VHF, 1953-2011) Digital: 58 (UHF, 2006-2011) |
| Former affiliations | Radio-Canada (secondary, 1973-1976) |
| Transmitter power | 103.34 kilowatts |
| Height | 615.4 metres |
| Website | CBC British Columbia |
CBUT-DT is the CBC's television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the flagship CBC Television station for the Pacific Time Zone. The station transmits its main terrestrial signal from a tower atop Mount Seymour.
CBUT currently produces a number of CBC Television programs. Portions of Marketplace are produced at CBUT, as were portions of the program Hemispheres, the now-cancelled national version of Canada Now and the late-night independent film program ZeD.
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. Comcast's Puget Sound system also began offering the digital version of CBUT, offering CBC HD programming, in 2009.[1] Additionally CBUT and CBUT HD are available in Central Washington on Broadstripe Cable's system in the Lake Chelan area.[2]
The station broadcasts from the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre on Hamilton Street in Downtown Vancouver.
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CBUT is the oldest television station in Western Canada, first going on the air on December 16, 1953 from its original location, a converted auto dealership, at 1200 West Georgia Street and Bute Street in Downtown Vancouver. However, CBUT was not the first television station to serve Vancouverites. The first TV station to serve Vancouverites was cross-border KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Washington, which signed on the air months earlier as a CBS affiliate and is currently an independent station. CBUT has broadcast in English for most of its existence, except for a period from 1973 to 1976 when French language shows from Radio-Canada aired on weekend mornings;[3] this secondary affiliation ended with the launch of CBUFT in 1976. CBUT was known mainly as Channel 2 from its inception until 1976. Since then, it has been known as CBC British Columbia.
During the station's early years until 1976, CBUT's station IDs consisted of slides of local Vancouver landmarks with the CBUT logo (the number 2 in Clarendon Bold typeface, contained within a stylized TV screen) added, with the announcement "This is CBUT, Channel 2 in Vancouver", while the ID slide used at the end of local programs on CBUT was a larger version of the station logo on a navy blue background with the announcement "This is CBC Television, Vancouver". Beginning with the introduction of CBC's "gem" logo in December 1974, CBUT (unlike other CBC O&Os, which continued using station IDs at the end of their local shows) began using the "gem" network ID at the end of all programming, network and local.
In 1975, CBC consolidated its radio and TV operations into one building. Prior to this, CBC's radio operations in Vancouver (CBU, CBU-FM and CBUF-FM) had been broadcasting out of separate studios at 701 Hornby Street, the basement of the Hotel Vancouver. Together, those stations formed the basis of the Regional Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street, a few blocks east of their previous radio and television facilities.
The station's IDs were changed in 1976 with CBUT's on-air rebranding as CBC British Columbia, with the initial IDs featuring a totem pole superimposed over local landmarks, followed by the totem pole zooming away from the viewer and turning into the letter T in the station brand.
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 (which has since been cancelled), as well as the addition of several new local newscasts. [1]
The only retransmitters of CBUT are located on the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, and areas not previously occupied by a private CBC affiliate.
Semi-satellites are in bold italics
| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CBUT-1 (Station off air due to transmitter fire) (details) |
Courtenay | 9 (VHF) | 1.25 kW | 158.8 m | ' |
| CBUT-2 | Chilliwack | 3 (VHF) | 1.51 kW | 214 m | |
| CBUT-3 | Port Alberni | 4 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-4 | Bowen Island | 13 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-5 | Squamish | 11 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-6 | Hope | 9 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-7 | Ucluelet | 7 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-8 | Campbell River | 3 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-10 | Sayward | 4 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-12 | Gold River | 7 (VHF) | 0.004 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-13 | Woss Camp | 12 (VHF) | 1.414 kW | 392 m | |
| CBUT-14 | Tahsis | 9 (VHF) | 0.001 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-16 | Alert Bay | 11 (VHF) | 0.386 kW | -34.7 m | |
| CBUT-17 | Port Alice | 10 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-18 | Port McNeill | 2 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-19 | Port Hardy | 6 (VHF) | 0.4 kW | 99.7 m | |
| CBUT-20 | Coal Harbour | 8 (VHF) | 0.001 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-22 | Tofino | 10 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-23 | Harrison Hot Springs | 13 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-25 | Chilliwack | 36 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-26 | Ruby Creek | 25 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-28 | Sooke | 3 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-30 | Phoenix | 15 (UHF) | 0.1 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-31 | Greenwood | 31 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-32 | Midway | 7 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-33 | Rock Creek | 33 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-34 | Squamish/Brackendale | 35 (UHF) | 0.08 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-35 | Sechelt | 18 (UHF) | 0.1 kW | 204.4 m | |
| CBUT-36 | Madeira Park | 31 (UHF) | 0.1 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-37 | Grand Forks | 5 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUT-38 | Kelowna | 45 (UHF) | 14 kW | 513.8 m | |
| CBUT-39 | Braeloch | 15 (UHF) | 0.1 kW | 70 m | |
| CBUT-40 | Penticton | 17 (UHF) | 3.98 kW | 239.9 m | |
| CBUT-41 | Vernon | 18 (UHF) | 4.235 kW | 52.5 m | |
| CBUT-42 | Oliver | 6 (VHF) | 0.23 kW | -71.7 m | |
| CBUT-43 | Salmon Arm | 3 (VHF) | 0.095 kW | 764 m | |
| CBUT-44 | Enderby | 26 (UHF) | 2.388 kW | -190.3 m | |
| CBUT-45 | Celista | 5 (VHF) | 0.003 kW | 115.3 m | |
| CBUT-46 | Revelstoke | 11 (VHF) | 0.05 kW | 75.5 m | |
| CBUAT | Trail | 11 (VHF) | 2.94 kW | 254.3 m | |
| CBUAT-2 | Castlegar | 3 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUAT-3 | Fruitvale | 9 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUAT-4 | Erie | 13 (VHF) | 0.001 kW | NA | |
| CBUAT-5 | Salmo | 10 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUAT-6 | Trail | 52 (UHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUAT-7 | Christina Lake | 13 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUBT-1 | Canal Flats | 12 (VHF) | 9.57 kW | -245 m | |
| CBUBT-2 | Golden | 13 (VHF) | 0.157 kW | -26.7 m | |
| CBUBT-3 | Invermere | 2 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUBT-4 | Donald | 3 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUBT-5 | Radium Hot Springs | 17 (UHF) | 4.6 kW | -507.8 m | |
| CBUBT-7 | Cranbrook | 10 (VHF) | 2.2 kW | 1049.6 m | |
| CBUBT-8 | Fernie | 21 (UHF) | 0.32 kW | 549.9 m | |
| CBUBT-9 | Fernie | 8 (VHF) | 1 kW | -550 m | |
| CBUBT-10 | Sparwood | 11 (VHF) | 1.206 kW | -257.4 m | |
| CBUBT-13 | Field | 11 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CBUBT-14 | Moyie | 6 (VHF) | 0.005 kW | NA | |
| CBUCT | Nelson | 9 (VHF) | 2.245 kW | 405 m | |
| CBUCT-1 | Crawford Bay | 5 (VHF) | 0.935 kW | -134.1 m | |
| CBUCT-2 | Creston | 3 (VHF) | 0.79 kW | 615.4 m | |
| CBUCT-3 | Winlaw | 12 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUCT-4 | Crescent Valley | 33 (UHF) | 0.02 kW | NA | |
| CBUCT-5 | Slocan | 39 (UHF) | 0.004 kW | NA | |
| CBUCT-6 | New Denver | 17 (UHF) | 2.5 kW | -779.8 m | |
| CBUDT | Bonnington Falls | 13 (VHF) | 0.159 kW | -392.3 m | |
| CBUGT | Fort Nelson | 8 (VHF) | 1.07 kW | 140.8 m | |
| CBUHT-1 | Purden Lake | 10 (VHF) | 0.156 kW | 185 m | |
| CBUHT-3 | McBride | 6 (VHF) | 3 kW | -159 m | |
| CBUHT-4 | Tete Jaune | 10 (VHF) | 0.001 kW | NA | |
| CBUHT-5 | Valemount | 12 (VHF) | 1.567 kW | -420 m | |
| CBUIT-1 | Bella Bella | 13 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUIT-3 | Bella Coola | 7 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUIT-4 | Hagensborg | 11 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUJ-TV | Blue River | 7 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUO-TV | Bamfield | 4 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBUPT | Pemberton | 4 (VHF) | 0.195 kW | -827 m | |
| CBUWT | Whistler | 13 (VHF) | 0.27 kW | -220 m | |
| CBCB-TV-1 | Vanderhoof | 18 (UHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBCB-TV-2 | Fort Fraser | 13 (VHF) | 0.83 kW | 408 m | |
| CBCB-TV-3 | Fort St. James | 7 (VHF) | 0.005 kW | NA | |
| CBCD-TV-1 | Pouce Coupe | 7 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBCD-TV-2 | Chetwynd | 7 (VHF) | 0.055 kW | 212.5 m | |
| CBCD-TV-3 | Fort St. John | 9 (VHF) | 0.66 kW | 245.7 m | |
| CBCD-TV-4 | Taylor | 12 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBCY-TV-1 | Burns Lake | 4 (VHF) | 0.597 kW | 323 m | |
| CBCY-TV-2 | Smithers | 5 (VHF) | 0.622 kW | 242 m | |
| CBCY-TV-3 | Moricetown | 4 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CBCY-TV | Houston | 2 (VHF) | 0.641 kW | 452 m | |
| CBRG-TV | Princeton | 6 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA |
Until the disaffiliation of CHBC, CBUT was available only on cable in Kelowna. After the disaffiliation in 2006, new transmitters were installed. However, due to the ties with CFJC, this station also disaffiliated. CBUT did not replace the transmitters in Kamloops and its surrounding area. This left CBC dependent on cable and satellite to reach the area.
Until the disaffiliation of CKPG, CBUT was available in Prince George. However, after the disaffiliation in 2008, the transmitters were never replaced. This also left CBC dependent on cable and satellite to reach the area.
Due to the availability of CFTK and CJDC in their markets, CBUT relies exclusively on satellite to reach Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert and Dawson Creek.
Since October 25, 2008, CBC Television has only been available on cable and satellite in the Comox Valley and Powell River due to a fire which knocked the local transmitter off the air.[4]
Some of these programs were also seen on the CBC network, either regionally or nationally.
| Broadcasting in Digital | Yes (Vancouver transmitter only) |
| Programs in HD | Yes |
| News in HD | No (Widescreen SD) |
| PSIP functioning properly | No (Note: this was functioning properly until Spring 2009 and has not been functional since) |
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which was scheduled to take place on August 31, 2011,[5] (CBC didn't actually transition until September 1), CBUT moved from its pre-transition channel number, 58, to its post-transition channel number, 43 with an ERP of 103 kW. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers displays CBUT's virtual channel as 2.1.
The Vancouver transmitter is CBUT's only transmitter planned to transition to digital.
Post-transition, the picture format for CBUT's digital signal switched from 1080i to 720p. [6]
Currently, CBUT produces a total of ten hours of local newscasts each week (with 1 hour, 40 minutes on weekdays and an hour on Saturdays and Sundays).
As of February 19, 2007, CBUT returned to an 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 July 2007, the newscast was renamed as CBC News: Vancouver. In September 2009, it would expand to 90 minutes. In past years, the supper hour newscast (which was fully local until the introduction of the national Canada Now) was known as Hourglass, Newscentre, CBC Evening News and Broadcast One.
Since April 2010, the CBC and CHEK have had a news sharing agreement, in which both stations share news stories and resources. Tony Parsons also joined the CBC to anchor CBUT's evening newscast, CBC News: Vancouver, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.; and anchors CHEK's 10 p.m. newscast from the CBC studios in Vancouver. The weekday 6 p.m. portion of CBC News: Vancouver is simulcasted on CHEK and the weekend 6 PM newscast is seen only on CHEK.[7]
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