CBKST
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| City of license | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
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| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada Lives Here |
| Channels | Analog: 11 (VHF) Digital: allocated 17 (UHF) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | October 17, 1971 |
| Call letters' meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Henry Kelsey Saskatoon Television[1] |
| Sister station(s) | CBK (AM), CBKS-FM |
| Transmitter power | 325 kW |
| Height | 239.6 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 52°10′28″N 106°26′5″W / 52.17444°N 106.43472°W |
| Website | CBC Saskatoon |
CBKST is a television station owned by the CBC in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is a semi-satellite of CBKT in Regina and airs separate commercials.
While the CBC originally planned to discontinue CBKST's over the air feed on August 31, 2011 (as the corporation did not originally plan to convert rebroadcasters in mandatory transition markets like Saskatoon to digital), the CRTC granted the CBC permission to allow transmitters in select mandatory markets, including Saskatoon, to still operate an analog feed until August 31, 2012.
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[edit] History
The station was launched on October 17, 1971. CFQC, the previous Saskatoon CBC affiliate which began broadcasting a combined CBC/CTV schedule in 1969, switched exclusively to CTV with CBKST's launch. 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.[2]
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, taking over the heritage Hutchinson Building, a few blocks away, on 2nd Avenue South, which it shares with its Radio-Canada counterpart, CBKFT.
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.[3]
On May 16, 2008, CBKST was given approval by the CRTC to delete its transmitters in Big River and Tisdale[4] 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.
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[edit] Digital television
As it is considered a "mandatory market" by the CRTC, all television stations in Saskatoon were required to end analogue service and switch to digital, or sign-off entirely by August 31, 2011.
Although CBKST appears to be a semi-satellite of CBKT, it is actually licenced as a rebroadcaster. The CBC had originally planned to not convert any rebroadcasters in mandatory markets to digital, which would have forced CBKST to sign off on the transition date. However, on August 16, 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC permission to continue operating 22 repeaters in mandatory markets, including CBKST, in analog until August 31, 2012, in which by then they must either convert to digital or close down. This is pending the corporation's license renewal process, which will include an evaluation of the CBC's digital transition plans.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
- ^ Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, August 17, 1976
- ^ Guinness World Records 2002. Guinness. 2001. p. 160. ISBN 0851121241.
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- ^ CRTC: "CRTC allows CBC to continue broadcasting analog television signals in 22 markets until August 2012", August 16, 2011.
[edit] External links
- CBC Saskatoon
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CBKST History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBKST
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBKST
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