CBC North

CBC North

Type	Broadcast radio network Television system
Country	Canada
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Key people	Hubert Lacroix, president
Launch date	1958 (radio) 1973 (television)
Former names	CBC Northern Service
Official website	CBC North

CBC North (Inuktitut: ᓰᐲᓰ ᐊᑭᐊᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ; Cree: ᓰᐲᓰ ᒌᐌᑎᓅᑖᐦᒡ; French: Radio-Canada Nord) is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio and television service in Northern Canada (i.e., Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Northern Quebec). It began operations in 1958 as the CBC Northern Service with radio broadcasts. It took over CFYK, a community-run station in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, which began broadcasting in 1948. CFYK had been opened by the Royal Canadian Signal Corps.

CFFB began operation in Frobisher Bay (now known as Iqaluit, Nunavut) on February 6, 1961. The service consisted of local programming in Inuktitut, English and French, and news and other programs from the CBC network received via shortwave. With the advent of the Anik series of satellites, Inuktitut and English radio programming from CFFB became accessible in most Eastern Arctic communities.

CBC North Radio carries daily aboriginal language programming in Dene Suline, Tlicho, North and South Slavey, Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun and Inuktitut. The shows include news, weather and entertainment, providing service to the many people in Northern Canada for whom English is not their first language.