CFYK-TV

CFYK-TV

City of license	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	Canada Lives Here
Channels	Analog: 8 (VHF) Digital: allocated 7 (VHF)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	1967
Call letters' meaning	Canada's Finest YellowKnife
Transmitter power	4.2 kW
Height	62.5 m
Transmitter coordinates	62°26′50″N 114°21′37″W
Website	CBC North

CFYK-TV is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It is the flagship station of the CBC North television service.

The station signed on in 1967 as the first television station in northern Canada, and the first station to be part of the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package; satellite delivery of colour television began in 1973.

Prior to 2011, the station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a "radiocommunication distribution undertaking", meaning that for regulatory purposes it was not a true television station, but merely a transmitter licensed to redistribute CBC North. The CRTC formally relicensed it as a full television station in February 2011.

In December 2011, CFYK plan to switch to digital broadcasting, broadcasting on digital channel 7 with a PSIP of 8.1 (though the Government of Canada's digital transition website states that CFYK-TV will flash-cut to digital as CFYK-DT on VHF 8). However, the CBC was not obligated to convert or close down this station, as no part of the Northwest Territories is designated as a mandatory market for digital conversion.

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CFYK-TV-1	Rae-Edzo	10 (VHF)	0.34 kW	36.3 m	62°46′2″N 116°3′26″W
CBEAT	Fort Smith	8 (VHF)	0.008 kW	NA	60°0′19″N 111°52′36″W
CBEBT-1	Hay River	7 (VHF)	2.565 kW	53.6 m	60°48′28″N 115°47′15″W
CBEBT-3	Fort Providence	13 (VHF)	2.08 kW	32.3 m	61°21′4″N 117°38′52″W
CBEDT	Norman Wells	9 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	65°16′28″N 126°47′11″W
CBEGT	Fort Simpson	9 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	61°52′21″N 121°22′54″W
CBEST	Fort Good Hope	9 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	66°15′43″N 128°37′47″W
CBETT	Deline	9 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	65°11′43″N 123°26′13″W
CBEV-TV	Fort Resolution	9 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	61°10′13″N 113°40′30″W

External links

• CBC North
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CFYK-TV History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFYK-TV