CBRT-DT

CBRT-DT

City of license	Calgary, Alberta
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	Canada Lives Here
Channels	Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 9.1 (PSIP)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	September 1, 1975
Call letters' meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CalgaRy Television
Sister station(s)	CBR (AM), CBR-FM
Former callsigns	CBRT (1975-2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 9 (UHF, 1975-2011)
Transmitter power	23.5 kW
Height	276.3 m
Transmitter coordinates	51°3′53″N 114°12′51″W
Website	CBC Calgary

CBC TV Calgary reporter Andree Lau covering a speech by Al Gore, and a related protest, at the EPCOR Centre behind her on April 23, 2007

CBRT-DT is the television call sign for the CBC Television's television station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The station broadcasts programming from the CBC Television network's national schedule alongside its own local news service.

Up until 2008, CBRT's Calgary studios were used by the 24-hour news channel CBC Newsworld as a production centre for programs including Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now.

History

CBRT went on the air at 6 pm on September 1, 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICT) became independent.

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.

News programming

The first supper-hour newscast on CBRT was called Evening Eye-Opener and later The CBC Evening News. The original late-night news was called Night Final. In 1991, the CBC cancelled the local newscast on CBRT due to corporate budget cuts and began producing a provincial newscast, CBC Alberta News from CBXT in Edmonton. Following a sharp drop in ratings, localised newscasts from Calgary were restored later in the decade.

The local supper-hour programs were cut to 30 minutes length in 2000 with the launch of a national and international news program, Canada Now from Vancouver. Seven years later, the sole Calgary newscast returned to its hour-long format under the umbrella title of CBC News at Six.

As of October 2009, CBRT now produces four local newscasts each weekday, including three half-hour programs (Calgary at Five, Calgary at 5:30, Calgary at Six) and a ten-minute late night summary (Calgary Late Night at 10:55 p.m. following the flagship network newscast The National.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• Evening Eye-Opener/Night Final (1975–early 1980s)
• CBC Evening News (early 1980s–1991)
• CBC Alberta News (1991–late 1990s)
• CBC Calgary News (late 1990s–2006)
• Calgary Tonight (late evening news bulletin; late 1990s–2006)
• CBC News: Calgary (2006–present)

Station slogans

• "Canada Lives Here" (2006–2011)

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News team

Current anchors

• Nirmala Naidoo - weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.
• Kristina Barnes - Calgary Late Night (weeknights at 10:55 p.m.)

Weather

• Danielle Savoni - meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6 and 10:55 p.m.

Sports

• Doug Dirks - sports director; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6 and 10:55 p.m.

Reporters

• Peter Akman - general assignment reporter
• Erin Collins - general assignment reporter
• Sonya Denton - general assignment reporter
• Tara Fedun - general assignment reporter
• Amanda Ferguson
• Dave Gilson - general assignment reporter
• Kirk Heuser - general assignment reporter
• Zulekha Nathoo - general assignment reporter
• Dave Simms - business correspondent
• Terri Trembath - videojournalist
• Colleen Underwood - general assignment reporter

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CBRT-1	Banff	5 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	51°11′53″N 115°36′47″W
CBRT-2	Drumheller (serving Nacmine)	6 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	51°28′3″N 112°48′16″W
CBRT-4	Lake Louise	12 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	51°26′8″N 116°11′16″W
CBRT-5	Rosemary	11 (VHF)	227.25 kW	188.7 m	50°41′11″N 112°27′13″W
CBRT-6	Lethbridge	10 (VHF)	222 kW	206 m	49°44′10″N 112°48′13″W
CBRT-7	Waterton Park	4 (VHF)	0.001 kW	NA	49°3′32″N 113°54′23″W
CBRT-8	Burmis	47 (UHF)	2.014 kW	165.5 m	49°33′14″N 114°10′41″W
CBRT-9	Pincher Creek	15 (UHF)	0.01 kW	NA	49°28′47″N 113°57′56″W
CBRT-10	Bellevue	57 (UHF)	0.01 kW	NA	49°33′55″N 114°20′57″W
CBRT-11	Coleman	17 (UHF)	0.01 kW	NA	49°38′41″N 114°29′40″W
CBRT-12	Cardston	6 (VHF)	0.01 kW	25 m	49°10′53″N 113°19′37″W
CBRT-13	Harvie Heights	22 (UHF)	0.1 kW	NA	51°7′48″N 115°23′9″W
CBRT-14	Drumheller (city grade)	3 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	51°27′52″N 112°42′42″W
CBRT-15	Cowley	27 (UHF)	0.01 kW	NA	49°33′14″N 114°6′9″W
CBRT-16	Coutts/Milk River	4 (VHF)	0.42 kW	77.1 m	49°4′34″N 112°1′43″W
CBCA-TV-1	Etzikom	12 (VHF)	40 kW	147.7 m	49°33′59″N 111°7′55″W

Digital television and high definition

Analog Channel	Virtual Channel	Digital Channel	Programming
9	9.1	21.1	main CBRT programming / CBC

On April 1, 2011, CBRT began broadcasting in digital on channel 21, although remapping it through PSIP to channel 9.1.

CBRT-6 in Lethbridge, a mandatory market, was required to go digital or be taken off the air by the transition deadline of August 31, 2011. CBC had originally decided that none of its rebroadcasters will transition to digital. However, on August 16, 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC permission to continue operating 22 repeaters in mandatory markets, including CBRT-6, in analogue 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 its transition plans.

See also

• List of CBC television stations

External links

• CBC Calgary
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CBRT History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBRT
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBRT