Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

=== Frontier Coverage Package ===
Starting in 1967 and continuing until the mid-1970s, the CBC offered a "Frontier Coverage Package" of limited television service to remote northern communities.<ref name="TV north of 60" /> Low-power television transmitters carried a four-hour selection of black-and-white [[videotape]]d programs each day. The tapes were recorded in [[Calgary]] and flown into a community with a transmitter, put on the air, and then transported to another community, often by the "bicycle" method used in [[television syndication]]. Transportation delays ranged from one week for larger centres to almost a month for small communities.<ref>{{cite thesis |type=M.A. |last=Hunter |first=Gordon |title=Native communications in Canada uses of and access to the broadcast media in the 1970s. |date=1980 |publisher=University of Windsor (Canada) |url=https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/2813/ |access-date=April 10, 2023 |format=PDF |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317032020/https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/2813/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:CBC North studio Iqaluit.JPG|thumb|[[CBC North]] studios in [[Iqaluit]] in 2011]]
The first stations were started in [[Yellowknife]], Northwest Territories; [[Lynn Lake]], Manitoba; and [[Havre-Saint-Pierre]], Quebec, in 1967.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roth |first=Lorna |url=https://archive.org/details/somethingnewinai0000roth |title=Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada |publisher=[[McGill–Queen's University Press]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7735-7244-7 |page=71 |oclc=243600946 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="TV north of 60">{{Cite book |last=Roth |first=Lorna |chapter=Television Broadcasting North of 60 |date=September 27, 2017 |url=http://books.openedition.org/uop/1433 |title=Images of Canadianness: Visions on Canada's Politics, Culture, and Economics |pages=147–166 |editor-last=D'Haenens |editor-first=Leen |publisher=[[University of Ottawa Press]] |isbn=978-0-7766-2709-0 |access-date=July 17, 2022 |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418143723/https://books.openedition.org/uop/1433 |url-status=live }}</ref> Another station began operating in [[Whitehorse]], Yukon in November 1968.<ref>{{cite news |title=Now It's Tuesday For CBC TV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122664932/whitehorse-cbc-tv-station-to-sign-on/ |access-date=April 11, 2023 |work=Whitehorse Daily Star |date=November 21, 1968 |page=2 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411102428/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122664932/whitehorse-cbc-tv-station-to-sign-on/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Additional stations were added from 1969 to 1972.

Most of the stations were reconfigured in 1973 to receive CBC Television programming from the [[Anik (satellite)|Anik]] satellite in colour and live with the rest of Canada. Those serving the largest centres signed on with colour broadcasts on February 5, 1973, and most of the others were added before spring of that year.<ref name="Anik live tv">{{cite news |title=First live TV broadcasting due in North via satellite |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121169452/live-tv-to-come-to-northern-canada/ |access-date=April 10, 2023 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=February 2, 1973 |page=22 |archive-date=March 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319055439/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121169452/live-tv-to-come-to-northern-canada/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Broadcasts were geared to either the [[Atlantic Time Zone]] (UTC−4 or −3), originating from [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] and later [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], or the [[Pacific Time Zone]] (UTC−8 or −7), originating from [[Vancouver]],<ref name="TV survey 1973">{{cite news |title=A TV Survey of the Yukon, NWT, Nfld and Northern Quebec |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121174354/live-tv-comes-to-whitehorse/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |work=Whitehorse Daily Star |date=February 7, 1973 |page=20 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331065207/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121174354/live-tv-comes-to-whitehorse/ |url-status=live }}</ref> even though the audience resided in communities in time zones varying from UTC−5 to UTC−8; the reason for this was that the CBC originated its programs for the Atlantic Time Zone, and a key station in each time zone would record the broadcast for the appropriate delay of one, two or three hours; the programs were originated again for the Pacific zone. The northern stations picked up one of these two feeds, with the western NWT stations picking up the Pacific feed.<ref name="Anik live tv" /> Some in northern areas of the provinces were connected by [[microwave transmission|microwave]] to a CBC broadcast centre within their own province.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hume |first1=Steve |title=Remote outposts linked by phone |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122668079/remote-outposts-linked-by-phone/ |access-date=April 11, 2023 |work=Edmonton Journal |date=January 15, 1973 |page=47 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411102426/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122668079/remote-outposts-linked-by-phone/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Some of these stations used non-CBC [[call sign]]s such as [[CFWH-TV]] in Whitehorse, CFYK in Yellowknife, CFFB in Frobisher Bay and CHAK in Inuvik, while some others used the standard CB_T callsign but with five letters (e.g. CBDHT). [[telecommunications link|Uplinks]] in the North were usually a [[satellite truck|temporary unit]] brought in from the south. A [[ground station]] uplink was later established in Yellowknife, and then in Whitehorse and Iqaluit.

Television programs originating in the North began in 1979 with the monthly news magazine ''Our Ways'', produced in Yellowknife,<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report 1979–1980 |url=https://resources.library.upei.ca/govdocs/CBC/BC1-1980.pdf |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=March 19, 2023 |page=16 |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320042010/https://resources.library.upei.ca/govdocs/CBC/BC1-1980.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and graduated to half-hour newscasts (''Northbeat'' and {{transliteration|iu|Igalaaq}}) on weekdays in 1995.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nightly news program to debut Tuesday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121996309/cbc-northbeat-and-igalaaq-debut/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |work=Whitehorse Daily Star |date=November 9, 1995 |page=14 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331094900/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121996309/cbc-northbeat-and-igalaaq-debut/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Until then, there were occasional temporary uplinks for such things as territorial election returns coverage; Yukon had the first such coverage in 1985,<ref>{{cite news |title=Results on TV, radio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122660823/yukon-1985-election-coverage-on-tv-and/ |access-date=April 10, 2023 |work=Whitehorse Daily Star |date=May 13, 1985 |page=4 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411045743/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122660823/yukon-1985-election-coverage-on-tv-and/ |url-status=live }}</ref> though because it happened during the Stanley Cup playoffs, equipment was already spoken for, so CBC rented the equipment of [[CITV-TV]] [[Edmonton]] to use in Whitehorse that evening.