A rebroadcaster, in Canadian broadcasting, is a television or radio transmitter which airs the programming associated with a radio or television station in a different market. A rebroadcaster is essentially the same as an American broadcast translator, although the terminology and policy regulation are different. Antenna tower of Crystal Palace transmitter, London A transmitter (sometimes abbreviated XMTR) is an electronic device which with the aid of an antenna propagates an electromagnetic signal such as radio, television, or other telecommunications. ... In broadcasting, a translator is an FM radio station or a TV station which acts as a full-duplex repeater. ...

Television

A television rebroadcaster may, in some cases, be licensed as a semi-satellite, which airs the same programming as the originating station but is permitted to sell local or regional advertising for broadcast only on the local transmitter. On rarer occasions, a semi-satellite may also be licensed to air a very limited amount of distinct programming from its parent station. Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. ...

There is no strict rule for the call sign of a television rebroadcaster. Some transmitters have distinct call signs from the parent station (for example, CFGC in Greater Sudbury is a rebroadcaster of CIII), while others use the call sign of the originating station followed by a number (e.g. CBLFT-17 in Sarnia). Officially, the latter type includes the television station's TV suffix between the call sign and the number, although in media directories this is often left out for convenience. 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 aid... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... CIII is a television station owned by CanWest Global that serves most of the Canadian province of Ontario. ... CBLFT is the Societé Radio-Canada station serving franco-ontarians in Toronto and Western Ontario. ... Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (population 70,876 in 2001). ...

In the latter case, the numbers are usually applied sequentially, starting from one and denoting the chronological order in which the station's rebroadcast transmitters began operation. However, some broadcasters may, at their discretion, use a system in which the number denotes the actual broadcast channel of the transmitter (e.g. CJOH-47 in Pembroke.) CJOH is a television station owned by Bell Globemedia which serves Ottawa, Ontario and the surrounding region. ... Pembroke (2004 population 14,700 or 23,679 including the immediate surrounding area) is a city on the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley in eastern Ontario, Canada. ...

On the rare occasion that the sequential numbering reaches 99 (e.g. TVOntario's broadcast transmitters), rather than being numbered as 100 the next transmitter is assigned a new call sign and numbered as one. TVOntario, officially the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, is an educational public television broadcaster in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...

Low-power rebroadcasters may also have a call sign which consists of the letters CH followed by four numbers. For example, CH2649 in Valemount is a rebroadcaster of Vancouver's CHAN. Rebroadcasters of this type are numbered strictly sequentially to the order in which they were licensed by the CRTC, and their call signs have no inherent relationship to those of the parent stations or of other rebroadcasters. Although the next number in the sequence, CH2650 in Anzac, is also a rebroadcaster of CHAN, this is simply because CH2649 and CH2650 happened to be licensed simultaneously — the following number, CH2651, is a rebroadcaster (also in Anzac) of Edmonton's CITV. Low-power broadcasting is the concept of broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... CHAN-TV (otherwise known as Global BC) is the Global Television Networks owned-and-operated station in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Industry Integrity Progress City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canadas Location. ... This article is about CITV, the Canadian television station. ...

As well, a single station's rebroadcasters are not necessarily all named in the same manner. CBLT, for example, has some retransmitters which have their own call signs, some which use CBLT followed by a number and some transmitters with CH numbers. CBLT is the television call sign for the CBCs television station in Toronto, Ontario. ...

Radio

As in television, a radio rebroadcaster may have either a distinct call sign or the call sign of the originating station followed by a numeric suffix. In the case of radio, however, the numeric suffix is always sequential.

For a rebroadcaster of an FM station, the numeric suffix is appended to the FM suffix. For example, rebroadcasters of CJBC-FM in Toronto are numbered CJBC-FM-1, CJBC-FM-2, etc. Where an AM station has a rebroadcaster operating on the FM band, the numeric suffix instead falls between the CXXX call sign and the FM suffix — for example, CKSB-1-FM is an FM rebroadcaster of the AM station CKSB. FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity broadcast radio sound. ... CJBC is the callsign of two Canadian radio stations, which broadcast the CBCs French language radio networks in Toronto, Ontario. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ...

Low-power radio rebroadcasters may also have a call sign which consists of the letters VF followed by four numbers.