CBOFT-DT

CBOFT-DT

City of license	Ottawa, Ontario
Branding	Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau
Slogan	Ici comme dans la vie
Channels	Digital: 9 (UHF) Virtual: 9.1 (PSIP)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	Radio-Canada
Owner	Société Radio-Canada
First air date	June 24, 1955
Call letters' meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Ottawa Français Télévision
Sister station(s)	CBOF-FM, CBOX-FM
Former callsigns	CBOFT (1955-2011)
Former channel number(s)	9 (Analog, 1955-2011) 22 (Digital, 200?-2011)
Former affiliations	TVA (secondary, 1977-1978)
Transmitter power	3.5 kW
Height	424.9 m
Transmitter coordinates	45°30′9″N 75°50′59″W
Website	Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau

CBOFT-DT is the Radio-Canada station serving Franco-Ontarians in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, and the Québécois in the Outaouais region of Quebec.

History

CBOFT went to air in 1955 as the first French-language television station in Ontario. Previously, CBOT aired both CBC and Radio-Canada programs.

For a brief time during 1977 and 1978, until CHOT opened, CBOFT also carried some TVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate, CFVO-TV (whose channel 30 frequency is now occupied by CIVO) went bankrupt.

Due to cost-cutting measures at the CBC in the early 1990s, local programming on Toronto's CBLFT and its rebroadcasters, as well as CBLFT semi-satellite CBEFT in Windsor was discontinued in 1991. All Radio-Canada transmitters in Ontario were reclassified as rebroadcasters of CBOFT, under the name "[Societé] Radio-Canada Ontario-Outaouais". The station produced two distinct newscasts through the 1990s and 2000s, one for the Ottawa region and one for the remainder of Ontario.

In 2010, the CBC applied to the CRTC to have CBLFT relicensed as a separate station, which would again produce a separate newscast for broadcast in most of the province outside of CBOFT's market. The application was approved on April 28, 2010, leading to CBLFT resuming newscast production from Toronto, and most of the network's transmitters in Ontario, outside of the Ottawa region, reassigned to CBLFT's license. Following this split in the network, CBOFT and its Quebec transmitters became "Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau", while most other Ontario transmitters became part of the "Radio-Canada Ontario" network.

Prior to the arrival of the Ottawa Senators NHL team, the station would broadcast the Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday nights, while the English counterpart, CBOT, would carry the Toronto Maple Leafs games during the Saturday Hockey Night in Canada slot.

News staff and reporters

• Michel Picard, News anchor, 6 PM news week
• Nathalie Tremblay, News Anchor, 12 PM news
• Daniel Bouchard, Reporter, news anchor 6 PM week end
• Elise Brunet, Reporter
• Frédérica Dupuis, Reporter
• Réné Petit, Reporter
• Mathieu Nadon, Reporter
• Denis Babin, Reporter (Hawkesbury)
• Michel-Denis Potvin, Reporter
• Cindy Demontigny, Reporter
• Mélanie Riendeau, Entertainment

Transmitters

All of the following transmitters are located in Quebec.

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CBOFT-1	Chapeau	11 (VHF)	4.75 kW	114 m	45°55′29″N 77°4′22″W
CBOFT-2	Rapides-des-Joachims	8 (VHF)	0.74 kW	20.1 m	46°11′58″N 77°42′39″W
CBOFT-3	Notre-Dame-du-Laus	10 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	46°4′38″N 75°36′7″W

Digital television and high definition

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which takes place on August 31, 2011, CBOFT will move from its current pre-transition channel number, 22, to its post-transition and current analog channel number, 9. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display CBOFT's virtual channel as 9.1.

External links

• Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau (French)
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CBOFT History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBOFT
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBOFT