CBKST

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CBKST
city =
station_
station_slogan = Canada Lives Here
station_branding = CBC Television
analog = 11 (VHF)
digital = "allocated 17 (UHF)"
other_chs = see below
affiliations = CBC
network =
airdate = October 17, 1971
location = Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
callsign_meaning = Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
Henry Kelsey
Saskatoon
Television [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=236&historyID=80 Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes ] ]
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
licensee =
sister_stations = CBK (AM), CBKS-FM
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 325 kW
HAAT = 239.6 m
coordinates = coord|52|10|28|N|106|26|5|W|type:landmark
homepage = [http://www.cbc.ca/sask/ CBC Saskatoon]

CBKST is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which went on the air in 1971.

History

CFQC, the previous Saskatoon CBC affiliate which began broadcasting a combined CBC/CTV schedule in 1969, switched exclusively to CTV in 1971 with the launch of CBKST. The station's studios were originally located on the fifth floor of CN Towers, an office block located above Saskatoon's Midtown Plaza shopping centre. In August 1976 it was temporarily knocked off the air for several days when a several-ton chunk of concrete fell off the side of CN Towers and went crashing into the mall below, killing one person. ["Saskatoon Star-Phoenix", August 17, 1976]

For several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, CBKST used the brand "Saskatoon 11/12" on-air and in print, reflecting the station's respective over-the-air and cable positions in the city. At the time, the CBKST logo consisted of the name Saskatoon with the station's channel numbers contained within the O's.

In December 1990, nationwide cutbacks at the CBC resulted in many staff being laid off and its supper hour newscast cancelled. In the early 2000s, the station moved into a new storefront studio facility a few blocks away, on 2nd Avenue.

In 2002, CBC purchased former Prince Albert, Saskatchewan affiliate CKBI from previous owner Bell Globemedia (parent company of CTV), turning CKBI into a rebroadcaster of CBKST.

CBKST also has ties to the CBC's longest-running import, "Coronation Street" — according to the 2002 edition of the "Guinness Book of Records", CBKST acquired 1,144 episodes of the British soap from Granada Television on May 31, 1971, the largest number of TV shows ever purchased in one transaction.

On May 16, 2008, CBKST was given approval by the CRTC to delete the following transmitters: [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2008/db2008-104.htm] ]

*CBKST-TV-12 Big River, Saskatchewan
*CBKST-TV-14 Tisdale, Saskatchewan

Viewers that have been served by the two stations are served by two other CBKST transmitters, CBKST-TV-3 Leoville and CBKST-TV-11 Greenwater Lake.

Transmitters

ee also

*List of CBC television stations.

References

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/sask/ CBC Saskatoon]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=95&historyID=176 Canadian Communications Foundation - CBKST History]
*RecnetCanada|CBKST