CBC Television

==Stations==
{{see also|List of CBC television stations}}
{{see also|List of defunct CBC and Radio-Canada television transmitters}}

All CBC television stations, including those in major cities, are owned and operated by the CBC itself, with their [[master control]] facilities all located at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. CBC [[Owned-and-operated station|owned-and-operated]] (O&O) stations operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the main network schedule, although there are some regional differences from time to time. For on-air identification, most CBC stations use the CBC brand rather than their call letters, not identifying themselves specifically until sign-on or sign-off (though some, like Toronto's [[CBLT-DT|CBLT]], do not ID themselves at all except through [[PSIP]]). All CBC O&O stations have a standard call letter naming convention, in that the first two letters are "CB" (an [[ITU prefix]] in the CA-CE block allocated not to Canada (whose block is CF-CK), but to Chile) and the last letter is "T". Only the third letter varies from market to market; however, that letter is typically the same as the third letter of the [[CBC Radio One]] and [[CBC Radio 2]] stations in the same market. An exception to this rule are the [[CBC North]] stations in [[Yellowknife]], [[Whitehorse, Yukon|Whitehorse]] and [[Iqaluit]], whose call signs begin with "CF" due to their historic association with the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package prior to the advent of microwave and satellite broadcasting.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities were private [[network affiliate|affiliate]]s of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporated CBC programming within their schedules. Such stations ''generally'' followed the CBC schedule, airing a minimum 40 hours per week of network programming.  However, they often chose to opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters, such as [[CTV Two]], which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the CBC programming being displaced may have been broadcast at a different time than the network, or were not broadcast on the station at all. Most private affiliates generally opted out of CBC's afternoon schedule and Thursday night arts programming. Private affiliates carried the 10 p.m. broadcast of ''[[CBC News: The National|The National]]'' as a core part of the CBC schedule, but generally omitted the 11 p.m. repeat (which is no longer broadcast). Most private affiliates produce their own local newscasts for a duration of at least 35 minutes. Some of the private affiliates later began adding CBC's overnight programming to their schedules since the network began broadcasting 24 hours a day in October 2006.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Following the disaffiliation of the last privately owned CBC affiliate [[CKSA-DT]] in [[Lloydminster]] on August 31, 2016, no more private stations operate as CBC affiliates, as many such stations have been purchased either by the CBC itself or by [[Canwest]] Global or [[CHUM Limited]], respectively becoming [[E! (Canadian TV system)|E!]] (a small system owned by Canwest, but separate from its fully national [[Global Television Network]]) or A-Channel (later A, now [[CTV Two]]) stations. One private CBC affiliate, [[CHBC-TV]] in [[Kelowna]], joined E! (then known as CH) on February 27, 2006. When a private CBC affiliate reaffiliated with another network, the CBC normally added a retransmitter of its nearest O&O station to ensure that CBC service is continued. However, due to an agreement between CHBC and [[CFJC-TV]] in [[Kamloops]], CFJC also disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27, 2006, but no retransmitters were installed in the licence area. Former private CBC affiliates [[CKPG-TV]] [[Prince George, British Columbia|Prince George]] and [[CHAT-TV]] [[Medicine Hat]] disaffiliated on August 31, 2008, and joined E!, but the CBC announced it would not add new retransmitters to these areas. Incidentally, CFJC, CKPG and CHAT are all owned by an independent media company, [[Jim Pattison Group]]. With the closure of E! and other changes in the media landscape, several former CBC affiliates subsequently joined CTV, [[Citytv]] or Global, or closed altogether.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

According to filings to the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) by Thunder Bay Electronics (owner of CBC's [[Thunder Bay]] affiliate [[CKPR-DT]])<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120510062841/http://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/Default.aspx?cid=83646 CKPR-TV seeks licence adjustment], ''tbnewswatch.com'', March 5, 2010</ref> and Bell Media (owner of CBC affiliates [[CFTK-TV]] in Terrace and [[CJDC-TV]] in Dawson Creek),{{citation needed|date=February 2012}} the CBC informed them that it would not extend its association with any of its private affiliates beyond August 31, 2011. Incidentally, that was also the date for [[Digital television in Canada|analogue to digital transition]] in Canada. Given recent practice and the CBC's decision not to convert any retransmitters to digital, even in markets with populations in the hundreds in thousands, it was not expected that the CBC would open new transmitters to replace its affiliates, and indeed pared back its existing transmitter network to just its digital transmitters in July 2012. However, in March 2011, CKPR announced that it had come to a programming agreement with the CBC, in which the station would continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay for a period of five years.<ref>[http://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/136400/CKPR-Television,-CBC-ink-programming-deal CKPR-Television, CBC ink programming deal - Thunder Bay News Tbnewswatch.com]</ref>

On March 16, 2012, Astral Media announced the sale of its assets to [[Bell Media]], owners of [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] and [[CTV Two]], for $3.38 billion with CFTK and CJDC included in the acquisition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BREAKING NEWS -- Astral Enters Agreement to Be Acquired by Bell |url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/breaking-news-astral-enters-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-bell/1000992927/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610203052/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/breaking-news-astral-enters-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-bell/1000992927/ |archive-date=June 10, 2015 |access-date=April 20, 2012}}</ref> Both stations subsequently became CTV Two stations.

CBC television stations in [[Nunavut]], the [[Northwest Territories]] and [[Yukon]], branded as [[CBC North]], tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages such as [[Inuktitut]], [[Gwichʼin]] and [[Dene]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}