CFYK-DT

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CFYK-DT
City of license Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Branding CBC Television
Slogan Canada Lives Here
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8.1 (PSIP)
Affiliations CBC
Owner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date 1967
Call letters' meaning Canada's Finest YellowKnife
Former channel number(s) Analog: 8 (VHF, 1967-2012)
Transmitter power 2.4 kW
Height 62.5 m
Transmitter coordinates 62°26′50″N 114°21′37″W / 62.44722°N 114.36028°W / 62.44722; -114.36028
Website CBC North

CFYK-DT 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]

CFYK-TV switched to digital broadcasting, flash cutting on VHF 8 (originally VHF 7) with a PSIP of 8.1 on August 1, 2012.[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]

Transmitters

CFYK had 9 analog television re-transmitters in the Northwest Territories.

Due to federal funding reductions to the CBC, in April 2012, the CBC responded with substantial budget cuts, which included shutting down CBC's and Radio-Canada's remaining analog transmitters on July 31, 2012.[4] None of CBC or Radio-Canada's rebroadcasters were converted to digital. The only known translators in Arctic Canada that are known to still be in service are owned and operated by local community groups or local governments.

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