CBLFT-DT

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CBLFT-DT (channel 25) is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which broadcasts programming to the province's Franco-Ontarian population. It is part of a twinstick with CBC Television flagship CBLT-DT (channel 5). The two stations share studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street West in downtown Toronto; CBLFT-DT's transmitter is located atop the CN Tower.

The station provides French-language programming to the Greater Toronto Area and most of Ontario, including the Southwestern, Central and Northeastern regions of the province.

History

CBLFT was originally licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1972 as a standalone station; the station first signed on the air on March 23, 1973. Until CBLFT signed on, CBC O&O CBLT aired French-language programming from Radio-Canada on Sunday mornings. The station originally transmitted from the CBC's Jarvis Street transmitter site, but as with almost all other radio and television stations in Toronto, approval was given by the CRTC to move the transmitter site to the CN Tower on December 14, 1973. Several transmitters in Northern Ontario which were already in operation as rebroadcasters of CBOFT in Ottawa were reassigned to CBLFT's license, and various additional rebroadcasters were added throughout Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the early 1990s due to budget cutbacks at the CBC, all Radio-Canada transmitters in Ontario (except those in the northwest part of the province, which was served by CBWFT in Winnipeg) were reassigned to the license of CBOFT as rebroadcasters. All of the transmitters that were formerly part of CBLFT's license continued to broadcast a separate local early evening newscast, which was produced in Ottawa, but was only seen in that city via a late night rebroadcast, similar to the split broadcast used at CBC Radio One station CBLA-FM (99.1 FM) for its morning programs.

On April 28, 2010, the CRTC granted a license request by the CBC to relaunch CBLFT as a separate station which would once again produce a distinct local newscast from CBOFT.[1] Most of the network's transmitters in Ontario, except for those in the Ottawa area, were again reassigned to CBLFT's license, and newscast production later returned to Toronto.

Technical information

Subchannel

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Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming[2]
25.1 720p 16:9 CBLFT-DT Main CBLFT-DT programming / Ici Radio-Canada Télé

Analog-to-digital conversion

CBLFT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 25, on August 31, 2011, the official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 24 to post-transition (and former analog) channel 25.[3]

Transmitters in mandatory markets were required to switch to digital or shut down by the transition deadline of August 31, 2011. Radio-Canada requested to temporarily broadcast in analog in these markets beyond 2011, as programming for Radio-Canada is not produced in these markets.[4] The following CBLFT rebroadcasters are in mandatory markets:

However, on August 16, 2011, the CRTC granted the CBC permission to continue operating 22 repeaters in mandatory markets, including the above, in analog until August 31, 2012, in which by then they must either convert to digital or close down. This was pending the corporation's licence renewal process, which will include an evaluation of its transition plans.[5]

At some point before June 20, 2012, CBLFT had begun airing a Mobile DTV simulcast of CBLT-DT on virtual channel 5.2, encoded in the H.264 and HE-AAC formats.[6]

Transmitters

Template:Side box CBLFT operated almost 30 analog television rebroadcasters throughout the province of Ontario and included communities such as London, Kitchener and Sudbury. Additionally, several Radio-Canada transmitters in eastern Ontario, such as Kingston and Belleville, were part of the CBLFT license even though they served cities that were closer to Ottawa than Toronto.

Due to federal funding reductions to the CBC, in April 2012, the CBC responded with substantial budget cuts, which included shutting down CBC's and Radio-Canada's remaining analog transmitters on July 31, 2012.[7] (A transmitter serving Barrie, CBLFT-11, closed down the previous year, in August 2011.)[8] None of CBC or Radio-Canada's television rebroadcasters were converted to digital, leaving rural Canadians and U.S. border regions with no free over-the-air CBC/Radio-Canada coverage. Some affected viewers could get the signal back for a price by subscribing to cable or satellite.[9]

CBLFT is not carried on cable or satellite in the United States.

In many communities, TVOntario transmitted from Radio-Canada sites and therefore permanently left the air the same day. Former rebroadcast transmitters, all now defunct, included:

Former rebroadcasters of CBLFT
Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter coordinates
CBLFT-1Template:Efn-ua Sturgeon Falls 7 17.5 kW 188.1 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-2Template:Efn-ua Sudbury 13 17.1 kW 143.6 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-3Template:Efn-ua Timmins 9 30 kW 220 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-4Template:Efn-ua Kapuskasing 12 30 kW 133.5 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-5Template:Efn-ua Hearst 7 16.8 kW 186.2 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-6Template:Efn-ua Elliot Lake 12 37 kW 162.2 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-7Template:Efn-ua Espanola 4Template:Efn 0.01 kW — Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-8Template:Efn-ua Kitchener 61Template:Efn 0.635 kW 198.1 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-9Template:Efn-ua London 53Template:Efn 0.34 kW 306.5 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-10Template:Efn-ua Chatham 48 40.6 kW 193.2 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-11 Barrie 55Template:Efn 14.7 kW 189 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-12Template:Efn-ua Peterborough 44 111 kW 267.6 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-13Template:Efn-ua Belleville 15 410 kW 170.1 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-14Template:Efn-ua Kingston 32 109 kW 169.8 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-15 Penetanguishene 34 17.4 kW 181.7 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-16 Driftwood[10][11] 74 0.1 kW — —
CBLFT-17 Sarnia-Oil Springs 17Template:Efn 12.12 kW 98 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-18 Thunder Bay 12 22.7 kW 237.7 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-19 Nipigon 26 4.3 kW 263.9 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-20 Sault Ste. Marie 26 3.6 kW 135 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-21 Gogama 12Template:Efn [12] 2.36 kW 197.8 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-22 Chapleau 13 2.45 kW 36.6 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-23 Wawa 16 14.8 kW 154.5 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-24 Dubreuilville 11Template:Efn [13] 0.01 kW — Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-25 Manitouwadge 15 55.4 kW 200.6 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-26 Geraldton 7 3.4 kW 204.2 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBLFT-27 Mattawa 26 16.7 kW 93 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBEFT Windsor 35Template:Efn 36 kW 206.8 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
CBFST-2 Témiscaming, Quebec 12 14.2 kW 262.3 m Script error: No such module "Coordinates".

On December 17, 1985, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to add a transmitter at Thorne/Eldee on channel 16 with 13 watts to rebroadcast the programs of CBLFT Toronto, through CBLFT-1 (channel 7) Sturgeon Falls.[14] Its unknown if the transmitter at Thorne/Eldee was ever launched.

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ CRTC Decision 2010-239
  2. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for CBLFT-DT
  3. ↑ Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) Template:Webarchive
  4. ↑ CBC/Radio-Canada: "2011–2012 Digital Transition Plan", August 6, 2010. Template:Webarchive
  5. ↑ CRTC: "CRTC allows CBC to continue broadcasting analog television signals in 22 markets until August 2012", August 16, 2011. Template:Webarchive
  6. ↑ CBC MDTV testing in Toronto | Dude, Where's My TV?
  7. ↑ Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  9. ↑ CBC-TV, TVO end analog transmission
  10. ↑ Main Directory of T V Stations Listed by Location, www.worldradiohistory.com, February 9, 1992
  11. ↑ Decision CRTC 95-620 - CBLFT-16 Driftwood was deleted in 1995
  12. ↑ Decision CRTC 96-539 - CBLFT-21 Gogama changed channels from 23 to 12
  13. ↑ Decision CRTC 95-91 - CBLFT-24 Dubreuilville changed channels from 7 to 11
  14. ↑ Decision CRTC 85-1263 - Addition of a transmitter at Thorne/Eldee

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External links

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