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Encyclopedia > CBRT
CBRT
Calgary, Alberta
Branding CBC Television
Slogan "Canada's Own"
Channels 9 / Cable 6 analog
Affiliations CBC
Owner CBC
Founded September 1, 1975
Call letters meaning C B C
Calgary
Television
Transmitter Power 325 kW
Website CBC Calgary

CBRT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Calgary, Alberta. It broadcasts national CBC programming, as well as a local edition of Canada Now which is hosted by Doug Dirks. Since he joined the show, it has steadily improved in the ratings. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (825x675, 132 KB) Summary Logo of CBC Television. ... Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or, equivalently, wavelengths) assigned by a government for the operation of a particular broadcast station. ... Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the signal. ... An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... CBC Television is the primary English language television service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... In radio (including television), a callsign or call sign (also call letters) is a unique designation for amateur, broadcast, and sometimes military radio use, as well as for broadcast television. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ... Canada Now (more formally CBC News: Canada Now) is the early-evening national news program aired on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...


CBC Newsworld also has a production centre at CBRT. It produces Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now, which is hosted by Kathleen Petty. CBC Newsworld is a Canadian 24-hour cable news television channel operated by the CBC. It broadcasts into over 10 million homes nation-wide, as well as into some northern states in the U.S. It is the worlds third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in...


History

CBRT went on the air September 1, 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICT) became independent. The station initially branded as "CBC 9", 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. CICT is an Canadian television station, licensed to, serving Calgary, Alberta. ...


See also

The following is a list of television stations which are owned by or regional affiliates of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...

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CBRT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (226 words)
CBRT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Calgary, Alberta.
CBRT went on the air in 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICT) became independent.
The station was originally branded as "cbrt" (in lowercase), and became known as "CBC 9" in the early 1980s.
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