CBMT
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| City of license | Montreal, Quebec |
| Branding | CBC Television |
| Slogan | Canada Lives Here |
| Channels | Analog: 6 (VHF) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | January 10, 1954 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Montreal Television |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 107 kW (digital) |
| Height | 259.9 m (analog) 300 m (digital) |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 45°30′19″N 73°35′29″W / 45.50528°N 73.59139°W |
| Website | CBC Montreal |
CBMT is the CBC's television station in Montreal, Quebec. Programming on CBMT is seen on a network of more than 50 rebroadcasters throughout Quebec and in three communities in northern Manitoba: Brochet, Poplar River, and Shamattawa.
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[edit] History
CBMT was Montreal's second television station; previously English and French-language programs had shared time on CBFT, channel 2, which was Canada's first broadcast television station.
By the end of 1953, Canada had about a dozen television stations either licensed or under construction, and American competition was about to arrive in Montreal with the construction of WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont (transmitting from the top of Mount Mansfield), and WIRI-TV in Plattsburgh, New York (now known as WPTZ-TV).
The CBC organization decided that it was imperative to stop time-sharing in English and in French, so CBMT was included in the network's expansion plans for television.
This station was branded in the late 1970s and early 1980s as Montreal 6, becoming CBC Television Montreal 6 by the mid 1980s, and CBC Television Montreal during the 1990s.
Since 1997, CBMT has been the only CBC station in Quebec province. Previously, Quebec City had a CBC affiliate, CKMI. However, in 1997, CKMI switched its affiliation to the Global Television Network. CBMT set up a full-power rebroadcaster, CBVE, on CKMI's old channel 5, while CKMI moved to channel 20.
CBMT transmits from the Mount Royal candelabra tower, in Mount Royal Park, overlooking the city of Montreal. As a result, channel 6 experiences severe multipath interference in parts of the city and South Shore. On cable TV, CBMT is seen on the Vidéotron channel 13 in the Montreal area. In the U.S., it is seen on cable channel 6 in Plattsburgh, on channel 19 in Burlington, Vermont, and on channel 15 in Bangor, Maine. In Charter Cable areas of Michigan it's carried on channel 98. It is also seen on direct broadcast satellites throughout Canada and the northmost U.S.
It was also previously seen unscrambled on C-band satellite but this has now ended, when it switched to a proprietary digital satellite signal. When the signal was sent unscrambled on the C-band, many Americans with their TV dishes tuned into CBMT for a variety of news, entertainment, and sports — particularly CBC's Olympic Games TV broadcasts, which gave a different perspective than NBC's American broadcasts. That Canadian signal is still available, but it requires the purchase of a $3000 receiver.
[edit] Local programming
Like most other CBC stations, CBMT has a local newscast at 6PM entitled CBC News: Montreal at Six, anchored by Michel Godbout.
[edit] Transmitters
[edit] Audience outside Canada
CBMT also has substantial viewership in the United States, mostly from Maine to northeastern New York. It is also seen via cable TV in Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota — CBMT is the CBC station of choice for Charter Communications CATV systems in Bay City, Midland, Mount Pleasant, Alpena and Marquette.
CBMT is also broadcast in Jamaica on Flow Cable[1] and in the Bahamas on Cable Bahamas.[2]
[edit] Digital television and high definition
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on August 31, 2011 [3], CBMT will move from its current pre-transition channel number, 20, to its post-transition channel number, 21. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display CBMT's virtual channel as 6.1. Digital frequencies and their PSIPs for CBMT's repeaters may vary.
[edit] See also
- CBFT (Radio-Canada Montreal)
- List of Quebec media
- List of CBC television stations
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- CBC Montreal
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CBMT History
- CBMT at TV Hat
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBMT
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