CBRT-DT
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Calgary, Alberta Canada |
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| Branding | CBC Calgary (general) CBC Calgary News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Love CBC |
| Channels |
Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 9.1 () |
| 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 (VHF, 1975–2011) |
| Transmitter power | 23.5 kW |
| Height | 276.3 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 51°3′53″N 114°12′51″W / 51.06472°N 114.21417°W |
| Website | CBC Calgary |
CBRT-DT, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 21), is a CBC Television owned-and-operated television station located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBRT's studios are located on Westmount Boulevard and Memorial Drive (near the Bow River), just north of downtown Calgary, and its transmitter is located near Old Banff Coach Road/Highway 563 and 85 Street on the southwest side of Calgary. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 209. This station is also available on Bell TV channel 245 and on high definition on channel 1130.
CBRT first signed on the air at 6 p.m. on September 1, 1975. Before then, CBC programming had aired on private affiliate CFAC-TV (channel 2, now CICT), making Calgary the largest market in Canada without a CBC owned-and-operated station. 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 commonplace in the United States since the mid-1990s.
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.
As of October 5, 2015, CBRT airs over 11 hours a week of local news programming. On weekdays, "CBC Calgary News" broadcasts six 1-minute news updates at :59 past the hour from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM. A thirty-minute evening news magazine airs at 6:00 PM, and a late evening newscast is shown at 11:00 PM, following The National. On weekends, "CBC Alberta News", originating from CBC Edmonton (CBXT), is broadcast on Saturday evenings after Hockey Night in Canada, and at 11:00 PM on Sunday evenings.
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