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CBUT-DT 
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 atSister 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 Transmitter coordinates 49°21′13″N 122°57′24″W / 49.35361°N 122.95667°W 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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History
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.
Original CBUT logo, used in station IDs and print ads from 1953 to 1976.
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[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
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]
Transmitters
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
Cable and satellite only
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]
Programming
Locally produced programs on CBUT
- CBC News: Vancouver at 5 (local weekday supper-hour newscast)
- CBC News: Vancouver at 5:30 (local weekday supper-hour newscast)
- CBC News: Vancouver at 6 (local supper-hour newscast - formerly Canada Now, seen on CHEK-TV on weekends)
- CBC News: Vancouver Late Night (local ten-minute late-night news update. Airs at 10:55 PM)
- CBC News: Vancouver Saturday (local late-night weekend newscast. Airs at 10:30 PM)
- CBC News: Vancouver Sunday (local late-night weekend newscast. Airs at 11:00 PM)
Locally produced programs formerly aired on CBUT
Some of these programs were also seen on the CBC network, either regionally or nationally.
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.- 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)
- Doctor Doctor (medical issues)
- Downtown Saturday Night (variety)
- Good Rockin' Tonite (music videos)
- Hockey Talk (sports talk)
- Hourglass (local supper-hour newscast)
- In The Company of Women (current affairs discussion)
- Klahanie (outdoor activities)
- Leo and Me (comedy)
- Living Vancouver (lifestyles)
- 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)
- Rich Little's Christmas Carol (holiday special)
- Ritters Cove (drama)
- See BC on CBC (documentary films)
- Sportfishing BC (outdoor activities)
- Sportsline (sports highlights)
- Switchback (teen variety)
- Talkback Live (current affairs call-in)
- The Beachcombers (drama)
- The 11th Hour (sketch comedy)
- The Inventors (inventions)
- The Paul Anka Show (musical variety)
- The Raes (musical variety)
- The Score (sports talk)
- This Week in BC (news review)
- Urban Peasant (cooking)
- Wok with Yan (Oriental cooking)
- Wolfman Jack Show (musical variety)
- ZeD (independent short films)
- Zero Avenue (arts and entertainment magazine)
Digital television and high definition
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]
News operation
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]
News team[8][9][10]
Anchors
- Susana da Silva - weeknights at 10:55-11:05 p.m.
- Gloria Macarenko - weeknights at 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m.
- Tony Parsons - weeknights at 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m.
- Miyoung Lee - weekends at 6 (CHEK only), Saturdays at 10:30 and Sundays at 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
Weather team
- Claire Martin (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval; CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) - senior meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10:55 p.m.
- Simone Grewal - weather anchor; weekends at 6 (CHEK only), Saturdays at 10:30 and Sundays at 11 p.m.
- David Jones (CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) - meteorologist; fill-in (with Environment Canada)
- Ann Luu - weather anchor; fill-in
Sports team
- Shane Foxman - sports anchor; weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.
- Karin Larsen - sports anchor; weekends at 6 (CHEK only), Saturdays at 10:30 and Sundays at 11 p.m., also sports reporter
- Jody Vance - sports anchor; fill-in
- Emma McLagan - sports anchor; fill-in, also sports reporter
Reporters
- Chris Brown - general assignment reporter
- Tim Chung - general assignment reporter
- Deborah Goble - general assignment reporter
- Navjot Heir - general assignment reporter
- Lisa Johnson - general assignment reporter
- Bob Nixon - general assignment reporter
- Stephen Quinn - general assignment reporter
- Eric Rankin - general assignment reporter
- Heather Robinson - general assignment reporter
- Moe Sihota - political analyst
- Susana da Silva - general assignment reporter
- Stephen Smart - general assignment reporter
- Kathy Tomlinson - "Go Public" feature reporter
- Alan Waterman - general assignment reporter
- Tim Weekes - general assignment reporter
- Kirk Williams - general assignment reporter
Notable former on-air staff
- Adrienne Arsenault - reporter (1993–1998; now with CBC News The National)
- Gillian Findlay - reporter (1982–1985; now at the fifth estate)
- Dawna Friesen - reporter (now anchor of Global National)[11]
- Bill Good, anchor, now at CIVT-TV
- Ian Hanomansing - anchor/reporter (1988–2010; now reporter for CBC News The National)
- Anton Koschany - reporter (1977–1979; now executive producer CTV W5)
- Jack Webster - reporter, Hourglass (deceased)
See also
References
- ^ Comcast's list of 33 new HD channels includes MSNBC, MTV
- ^ http://www.broadstripe.com/files/lineup/Chelan.pdf
- ^ Vancouver Broadcasters station history (1976)
- ^ Lori Jenks (2008-10-28). "Suspicious fire destroys transmission tower near Cumberland". Canwest News Service. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=7f8604ab-fd01-4abc-bf0a-7db270a266f4. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
- ^ http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html
- ^ http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=1310207&postcount=919
- ^ Tony Parsons joins CBC News Vancouver
- ^ CBC News Vancouver at 5, 5:30 & 6 p.m.
- ^ About CBC News Vancouver Saturday & CBC News Vancouver Sunday
- ^ About CBC News Vancouver Late Night
- ^ Infantry, Ashante (July 13, 2010). "Dawna Friesen named Global news anchor". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/835209.
External links
- CBC British Columbia
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CBUT History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBUT
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBUT
Broadcast television in British Columbia Vancouver DTV Victoria DTV Kamloops CFJC 4 (Citytv) • CHKM 6 (Global) • CBUFT-2 50 (Radio-Canada)
Kelowna CHBC 21 (Global) • CHKL 51 (Global) • CBUFT-1 21 (Radio-Canada) • CBUT-38 45 (CBC)
Prince George CKPG 2 (Citytv) • CBUFT-4 4 (Radio-Canada) • CIFG 12 (Global)
Other areas Cable-only US stations serving BC See also: List of television stations in British Columbia, Northwest Washington and Seattle TV
1 CHBC and CHKL carry separate evening newscasts (local and provincial respectively), but identical programming otherwise.
2 Available on over the air retransmitters in certain towns.CBC Television stations in Canada CBC owned-and-operated stations CBAT Fredericton · CBCT Charlottetown · CBET Windsor · CBHT Halifax · CBKT Regina · CBKST Saskatoon · CBLT Toronto · CBMT Montreal · CBNT St. John's · CBOT Ottawa · CBRT Calgary · CBUT Vancouver · CBWT Winnipeg · CBXT Edmonton · CFFB Iqaluit · CFWH Whitehorse · CFYK Yellowknife · CHAK Inuvik
Privately-owned CBC affiliates CFTK Terrace · CHEX Peterborough · CHEX-2 Oshawa · CJDC Dawson Creek · CKPR Thunder Bay · CKSA Lloydminster · CKWS Kingston
See also Radio-Canada TV stations
Categories:- CBC television stations
- Television stations in Vancouver
- Television channels and stations established in 1953
- Channel 43 TV stations in Canada
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