CBNT-DT
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| City of license | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
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| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada Lives Here |
| Channels | Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8.1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | October 1, 1964 |
| Call letters' meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Newfoundland Television |
| Sister station(s) | CBFJ-TV, CBN, CBN-FM, CBAF-FM-17, CBAX-FM-2 |
| Former callsigns | CBNT (1964-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | 8 (Analog, 1964-2011) |
| Transmitter power | 14.54 kW |
| Height | 252.9 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 47°31′59″N 52°47′26″W / 47.53306°N 52.79056°W |
| Website | CBC Newfoundland and Labrador |
CBNT-DT, channel 8, is a television station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It serves as the CBC Television station for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The station went on the air on October 1, 1964, as previous CBC affiliate CJON-TV switched networks to CTV.
CBNT is carried on Rogers Cable channel 3 in the St. John's area, and has additional broadcast and cable coverage throughout the province. Studios are located at 95 University Avenue in St. John's, near the intersection of Westerland Road and the Prince Philip Parkway.
The station normally uses the Atlantic Time Zone feed of the CBC network schedule; as a result, most CBC programs air half an hour "later" on the island, which is on the Newfoundland Standard Time Zone, compared to elsewhere in Canada. The station's local newscast, CBC News: Here and Now, airs from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. NT.
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[edit] History
CBNT began broadcasting from the Browning Harvey Building on Water Street West in downtown St. John's. It was the second TV station to sign on in the Metro Area (CJON, the previous CBC affiliate, was the first to open just nine years earlier in 1955). In 1966, the present TV building, located on 95 University Avenue, opened.
On April 30, 2007, CBC Radio's operations out of the old Avalon Telephone building on 342 Duckworth Street in downtown St. John's were moved to the TV building on the Parkway after renovations to accommodate the radio broadcasts were completed.
[edit] Programming
[edit] Newscasts
CBNT's supper-hour newscast, CBC News: Here & Now, is anchored in St. John's by Debbie Cooper and Jonathan Crowe. The title Here and Now is used in place of the "CBC News: (region) at (time)" monikers now used in most other regions. The ninety-minute program airs at 5:30 p.m. NT / 5:00 p.m. AT (Atlantic Time being the time zone used in most of Labrador). The first 30 minutes are referred to orally as Here & Now: Early Edition, although the CBC's centrally-produced on-screen graphics refer to it as Here & Now at 5:30 (and the remaining portion as Here & Now at 6).
Here & Now was the name of the newscast for decades prior to 2000, when CBC budget cuts forced it to be cut to a half hour from an hour and integrated into Canada Now. CBNT restored its old newscast in late 2005, with Canada Now airing at 7:00 NT until February 16, 2007. When CBNT first signed on, its local newscast was known as CBC Regional News. In the mid 1970s, it adopted the Here and Now name. The current Here & Now originally aired from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. until September 2009, when most CBC stations expanded their local news programming.
[edit] Other local programming
Current non-news local programming on CBNT includes Land and Sea, a regional documentary series in production since 1964, making it likely one of the longest-running television shows in Newfoundland and Labrador. Land and Sea is currently aired on Sunday afternoons. On January 15, 2007, CBNT premiered a new local program, Living Newfoundland and Labrador; it aired at 3:30 p.m. NT (3:00 Labrador), and was repeated Tuesday to Friday at 7:00 (6:30 Labrador). Living was cancelled in August 2009.
Since 1984, CBNT has been the home of the annual Janeway Children's Miracle Network Telethon, which usually airs the weekend following the U.S. Memorial Day holiday. Up until the early 1990s, the telethon was produced in cooperation with Avalon Cablevision Cable 9 (now Rogers TV). It was taped at the Avalon Cablevision studio, using CBC personalities, and Cable 9 volunteers. The Cable 9 feed was simulcast on CBC stations across the province, until the rebranding of Avalon Cablevision Ltd. to Cable Atlantic. At that time, the Cable Atlantic offices and studio underwent major renovations. CBNT then started using their own studio facilities, This Telethon Moved to NTV in 2012.
Other CBC programs previously produced in Newfoundland and Labrador include Reach for the Top, which was hosted by Bob Cole for many years, then later by Art Andrews and Peter Miller; As Loved Our Fathers, written by Tom Cahill [1]; Soundings; Yarns from Pigeon Inlet, TV adaptations of stories written by Ted Russell; Skipper and Company, which featured Ray Bellew; Where Once They Stood, a community profile series [2]; Yesterday's Heroes [3]; the 1997 five-part series East of Canada: The Story of Newfoundland [4]; the Ryan's Fancy show [5]; and from 1982 until the late 1990s with a brief gap in the middle of the decade, Newsfinal (CBC's local late night news show, anchored at times by Deborah Collins, Karl Wells, Glenn Tilley, etc.); just to name a few.
[edit] Other scheduling notes
CBNT generally adheres to the network's Atlantic Time feed.
Until September 2009, to accommodate Here and Now's 6:00 p.m. timeslot, the network provided a separate Newfoundland Time feed of its weekday afternoon schedule between 4:00 and 6:00 local. The 7:00 p.m. NT timeslot was then taken by Land and Sea (Monday) and repeats of Living Newfoundland and Labrador (Tuesday-Friday). As a result, the network program normally aired at 3:30 local (such as the Great Canadian Food Show) was pre-empted entirely. With few exceptions, this separate feed ended when Here & Now expanded to 90 minutes in September 2009.
As CBNT's master control operations are now handled directly from the CBC's facilities in Toronto, it is unlikely there is any remaining direct technical obstacle to the station carrying a full Newfoundland Time schedule. However, given the added difficulty of coordinating such a schedule with live national news or sports broadcasts (e.g. The National), as well as viewer familiarity with the current scheduling practices across all channels, such a switch is not likely in the near future.
[edit] Here & Now news team
[edit] Anchors
- Debbie Cooper (since 1989)
- Jonathan Crowe (since 2005; has previously worked in other departments at CBNT)
[edit] Weather
- Ryan Snoddon
[edit] Reporters
Note: This list includes reporters from CBC Radio 1. Also, it is in need of a major update.
- Jane Adey
- Vik Adhopia (national radio reporter)
- Martine Blue
- Andrew Brown
- David Burke (Western Newfoundland)
- David Cochrane
- Peter Cowan (Labrador)
- Glenn Deir
- Rod Etheridge
- Deanne Fleet
- Paula Gale (also with Radio Noon)
- Fred Greening (Land and Sea)
- Doug Greer (Western Newfoundland)
- Zach Goudie
- Cecil Haire (also on the St. John's Morning Show covering traffic)
- Natalie Kalata
- Kate Kyle
- Glenn Payette
- Paul Piggott
- Lee Pitts
- Mike Power (Western Labrador)
- Mark Quinn
- Carolyn Ray (Grand Falls-Windsor)
- Azzo Rezori
- Curtis Rumbolt
- Chris O'Neill Yates
- David Zelcer (Gander)
[edit] Hosts
- Pauline Thornhill (Land and Sea)
[edit] Others
- Randy Simms (weekly commentary)
[edit] Past on-air staff
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Note: some of these people are still at CBC Newfoundland, but in different capacities.
- George Aaron (Sports, retired in Quebec)
- Shilpa Acharya-Downton (weather fill-in)
- Art Andrews (deceased)
- Hal Andrews (Land and Sea)
- Juanita Barry (reporter)
- Ray Bellew (Skipper and Company) (deceased)
- Marilyn Boone (reporter)
- Harry Brown (local and national CBC TV and radio host and announcer) (deceased)
- Des Browne (Land and Sea)
- Anne Budgell (Here and Now co-anchor and On Camera host; also a longtime Radio Noon host on CBC Radio One; retired April 27, 2007)
- Tom Cahill (writer and producer) (deceased)
- Bill Callahan (weekly political panel)
- Jay Callanan (reporter; currently lineup producer of Here and Now)
- John Calver (weekly political panel)
- Lynda Calvert (reporter and fill-in anchor)
- Rab Carnell (Land and Sea)
- Mike Chisholm (reporter; now with Global Vancouver)
- Natalie Clancy (currently a national reporter)
- Bob Cole (Here and Now anchor and local CBC TV host; currently on Hockey Night in Canada)
- Deborah Collins (reporter and Newsfinal anchor)
- Herb Davis (Land and Sea)
- Tony Dawson (Labrador; currently co-hosts Labrador Morning)
- Mike Downey (Labrador)
- Peter Fenwick (weekly political panel for Here and Now)
- John Foster (Land and Sea; also did the nationally-seen This Land when it was on the air)
- Noreen Golfman (commentary)
- Peter Gullage (national reporter; now the news director)
- Ray Guy (weekly commentary for Here and Now)
- Paul Harrington (Land and Sea)
- Michael Harris (Here and Now 1978)
- Kevin Harvey (reporter; now with CBC Nova Scotia)
- Krissy Holmes (weather fill-in; moved to Rogers Television St. John's in 2006)
- Larry Hudson (reporter and contributor)
- Amy Joy (moved to Rogers TV St. John's in 2009)
- Tom Kavanagh (reporter)
- Bill Kelly (longtime Land and Sea host)
- Carl Lake (Here and Now, Sports, 1978–1985) (now owner/operator of thesportspage.ca)
- Ken Lawton (Here and Now)
- Terry LeDrew (reporter)
- Jay Legere (Labrador)
- Doug Letto (reporter and anchor; currently the senior producer of Here and Now)
- Christina Marshall (to be based in Sarnia, Ontario)
- Mike Martin (Land and Sea and Here and Now)
- Rick MacInnes-Rae (reporter; now hosting Dispatches on CBC Radio 1)
- Darrow MacIntyre (currently a national reporter)
- Mary McKim (reporter)
- David MacQuarrie (currently with CBC Toronto)
- Ken Meeker (reporter/writer/researcher)
- Peter Miller (CBC Radio host, Reach for the Top - regional host) (retired)
- Joe Mullins (reporter and Janeway Telethon host) (deceased)
- Stacey Munro
- Rex Murphy (currently on The National)
- Brenda Murray (reporter)
- Shirley Newhook (Coffee Break - host)
- Fergus O'Byrne (The Ryan's Fancy Show)
- John O'Mara (Here and Now reporter and anchor) (deceased)
- Dermot O'Reilly (The Ryan's Fancy Show) (deceased)
- Dave Quinton (longtime Land and Sea host)
- Brion Robinson (Central Newfoundland)
- Art Rockwood (deceased)
- Bill Rowe (weekly political panel for Here and Now; currently on VOCM)
- Denis Ryan (The Ryan's Fancy Show)
- Rick Seaward (reporter)
- Reg Sherren (moved to Country Canada in 2000)
- Del Simon (reporter)
- Carmel Smyth (reporter)
- Peter Soucy (aka "Snook") (currently on rival station NTV)
- Greg Stamp (reporter and Here and Now co-anchor)
- Erin Sulley (Living Newfoundland and Labrador); moved to Rogers TV St. John's in 2009
- Pamela Tennant (reporter)
- Glenn Tilley (longtime Here and Now and Newsfinal anchor)
- Jason Turnbull (sports; now with CBC Sudbury)
- Jim Turner (Here and Now 1976-78; retired in South America)
- Marie Wadden (reporter)
- Bob Wakeham (executive producer of many CBC Newfoundland shows)
- Peter Walsh (reporter) moved to Rogers TV St. John's in 2009
- Russell Wangersky (reporter)
- Karl Wells (weather and Newsfinal anchor; retired July 27, 2007)
- Patricia White (weather)
- The Wonderful Grand Band
[edit] Transmitters
CBNT has a very large system of rebroadcast transmitters, spread throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The transmitter directory is listed below.
[edit] Digital television
| Digital Channel | Virtual Channel | Programming |
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| 8 | 8.1 | main CBNT programming / CBC |
As part of Canada's transition to digital television, CBNT flash-cut to digital on August 31, 2011, using its existing signal on channel 8.
Originally, channel 21 had been allocated to sister Radio-Canada transmitter CBFJ-DT, although (as with the CBC's other non-originating rebroadcasters in mandatory markets) the corporation does not currently plan to convert that transmitter to digital, and simply shut it down. As of August 5, 2011, local broadcaster CJON (NTV) has been broadcasting on channel 21.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- CBC Newfoundland and Labrador
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CBNT History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBNT
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBNT
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