CBEFT

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CBEFT
(satellite of CBLFT,
Toronto, Ontario)
city =
station_
station_slogan = Ici comme dans la vie
station_branding = Radio-Canada Ontario-Outaouais
analog = 54 (UHF)
digital = "allocated 69 (UHF)"
other_chs =
affiliations = Radio-Canada
network =
airdate = July 16, 1976
location = Windsor, Ontario
callsign_meaning = Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
Essex County
Français
Télévision
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers = 78 (7/16/1976-10/29/1982)
owner = Société Radio-Canada
licensee =
sister_stations = CBET
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 144 kW
HAAT = 205.2 m
coordinates = coord|42|9|12|N|82|57|11|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/index.shtml Radio-Canada Ontario]

CBEFT is Radio-Canada's transmitter serving Franco-Ontarians in Windsor. Previously licensed as a standalone television station, as of 2000 it is licensed as a rebroadcaster of CBOFT, airing the provincial (CBLFT) feed.

It first aired on Channel 78 in 1976, making it one of Canada's highest-numbered UHF stations following the launch of CITY-TV in 1972 on Channel 79.

CBEFT was the first non-English TV station to sign-on in the Detroit-Windsor market — it would be later joined by Spanish-language SIN affiliate W66BV (now affiliated with TBN) in the early-1980s. Today, the Detroit - Windsor market is the only market in the US or Canada with terrestrial stations in Spanish and French -- the Spanish station is Univision affiliate WUDT-CA on channel 23.

CBEFT moved to Channel 54 on October 29, 1982, when TV channels above 69 were removed from the TV spectrum. Though it was part of the regional "Ontario-Outaouais" network since the late-1980s at earliest, the station officially ceased to exist around 1996, when it became a full rebroadcaster of CBOFT Ottawa.

CBEFT offered the full Radio-Canada line-up, except for some American series (due to Detroit rights, even though the channel's in French) and most Montreal Expos baseball games (due to the Detroit Tigers).

On cable, CBEFT can be seen on Cogeco Windsor channel 12. It is not seen on the Detroit-area systems, such as Comcast Detroit or Bright House Livonia. The station broadcasts at 144kw, with a directional antenna; it can be picked up to some degree in the Detroit area, as far west as Washtenaw and Lenawee counties and as far south as Sandusky and Port Clinton, Ohio.

External links

* [http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/index.shtml Radio-Canada Ontario]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=16&historyID=122 Canadian Communications Foundation - CBEFT History]
*RecnetCanada|CBEFT