CBRT (TV)

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CBRT
city =
station_
station_slogan = Canada Lives Here
station_branding = CBC Television
analog = 9 (VHF)
digital = "allocated 49 (UHF)"
other_chs = see below
affiliations = CBC
network =
airdate = September 1, 1975
location = Calgary, Alberta
callsign_meaning = Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
CalgaRy
Television
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
licensee =
sister_stations = CBR (AM), CBR-FM
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 325 kW
HAAT = 346 m
coordinates = coord|51|3|53|N|114|12|51|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=CBRT
homepage = [http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/ CBC Calgary]

CBRT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Calgary, Alberta. It broadcasts national CBC programming, as well as a local edition of "CBC News at Six" which is hosted by Doug Dirks. Since he joined the show, it has steadily improved in the ratings.

CBC Newsworld also has a production centre at CBRT. It produces "Newsworld Today", "Your Call", and a Newsworld edition of "Canada Now", which is hosted by Kathleen Petty.

History

CBRT went on the air at 6 pm on September 1, 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICT) became independent. The first supper-hour newscast on CBRT was called "Evening Eye-Opener", later "The CBC Evening News". The original late-night news was called "Night Final". In 1991, the CBC cancelled the local newscast on CBRT and began producing a provincial newscast out of CBXT in Edmonton. Ratings plummeted, and in the mid-1990s "Calgary Tonight" was launched as a new local hour-long newscast. As with the rest of the CBC's owned-and-operated stations, the local supper-hour news was cut to 30 minutes in 2000 and became part of the hour-long "Canada Now". By late 2006, however, CBC reinstated the local news programs, and now airs their own edition of CBC News at Six.

The station initially branded as "CBC 9" or "CBC Calgary", later branding as CBRT, then returning to "CBC 9" by 1982. CBRT was one of the first, if not the first, to use the network-channel number branding that has become very popular in the United States in the last few years.

Transmitters

ee also

*List of CBC television stations.

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/ CBC Calgary]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=35&historyID=22 Canadian Communications Foundation - CBRT History]
*RecnetCanada|CBRT