CFYK-TV
CFYK-TV is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It is the flagship station of the CBC North television service.
The station signed on in 1967 as the first television station in northern Canada, and the first station to be part of the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package; satellite delivery of colour television began in 1973.
Prior to 2011, the station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a "radiocommunication distribution undertaking", meaning that for regulatory purposes it was not a true television station, but merely a transmitter licensed to redistribute CBC North. The CRTC formally relicensed it as a full television station in February 2011.[1]
In December 2011, CFYK plan to switch to digital broadcasting, broadcasting on digital channel 7 with a PSIP of 8.1 (though the Government of Canada's digital transition website states that CFYK-TV will flash-cut to digital as CFYK-DT on VHF 8[2]). However, the CBC was not obligated to convert or close down this station, as no part of the Northwest Territories is designated as a mandatory market for digital conversion.[3]
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