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CBUT
Vancouver, British Columbia
Branding CBC Television
Slogan "Canada's Own"
Channels Analog: 2 (VHF) / Cable 3
Digital: 58 (UHF)
Translators See below
Affiliations CBC
Owner CBC
Founded 1953
Call letters meaning C B C
Vancouver
Television
Former affiliations None
Transmitter Power 100 kW
30.5 kW (digital)
Height 593.1 m (analog)
615.0 m (digital)
Website CBC British Columbia

CBUT is the CBC's television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the flagship CBC-TV station for the Pacific Time zone. CBUT is the oldest television station in Western Canada first going on the air on December 16, 1953. From the station's launch until 1976, CBUT had broadcast mainly in English, with French-language shows aired on Sunday mornings; CBUT switched exclusively to English with the launch of CBUFT in 1976.

The station transmits its main terrestrial signal from a tower atop Mount Seymour.

As of February 19, 2007, CBUT returned to an hour-long local newscast with the debut of a local edition of CBC News at Six, retaining the Canada Now name and hosted by former national Canada Now hosts Ian Hanomansing and Gloria Macarenko; in past years, the supper hour newscast (which was fully local until the introduction of the national Canada Now) was known as Hourglass, CBC Evening News, Newscentre and Broadcast One. In July 2007, the newscast was renamed as CBC News: Vancouver.

CBUT also currently produces a number of CBC Television programs. Portions of Marketplace and the program Hemispheres are produced at CBUT, as were the now-cancelled national version of Canada Now and the late-night independent film program ZeD.

CBUT was known mainly as Channel 2 from its inception until 1976. Since then, it has been known as CBC British Columbia. During the station's early years until 1976, CBUT's station IDs consisted of slides of local Vancouver landmarks with the CBUT logo (the number 2 in Clarendon Bold typeface, contained within a stylized TV screen—see below) added, with the announcement "This is CBUT, Channel 2 in Vancouver", while the ID slide used at the end of local programs on CBUT was a larger version of the station logo on a navy blue background[citation needed] with the announcement "This is CBC Television, Vancouver". Beginning with the introduction of CBC's "gem" logo in December 1974, CBUT (unlike other CBC O&Os, which continued using station IDs at the end of their local shows) began using the "gem" network ID at the end of all programming, network and local, and station IDs were changed in 1976 with CBUT's on-air rebranding as CBC British Columbia, with the initial IDs featuring a totem pole superimposed over local landmarks, followed by the totem pole zooming away from the viewer and turning into the letter T in the station brand.[citation needed]

In recent years, CBUT, as with all CBC-owned stations, had de-emphasized local programming in favour of network programming out of Toronto. As of 2002, the station only aired sporadic local non-news programming and dropped all use of local station IDs in favour of using only network IDs, and in budget cuts, the CBC integrated CBUT's master control (as did all other owned stations) into Toronto's master control. Recently, however, local programming on CBUT has increased with the introduction of a locally-themed lifestyles program, Living Vancouver, as well as the addition of several new local newscasts. [1]

In addition to British Columbia, CBUT has a significant American audience in Washington state. It is available over the air in Bellingham. Nearly one million Comcast cable subscribers in the Puget Sound region can receive CBUT's programming.

Contents

CBUT operates several translators around British Columbia. Semi-translators are in bold.

  • CBC News: Vancouver at Noon (local noon-hour newscast)
  • CBC News: Vancouver at Six (local supper-hour newscast - formerly Canada Now)
  • CBC News: Vancouver at Eleven (local five-minute late-night news update)
  • CBC News: Vancouver Saturday (local late-night weekend newscast. Airs at 10:30)
  • CBC News: Vancouver Sunday (local late-night weekend newscast. Airs at 11:00)
  • Living Vancouver (lifestyles)

Some of these programs were also seen on the CBC network, either regionally or nationally.

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  • Aquarium (aquatic wildlife profiles)
  • @ The End (current affairs discussion)
  • BC Schools Telecasts (educational)
  • Bob Switzer Show/Switzer Unlimited (talk show)
  • Booked on Saturday Night (literature discussion)
  • Camera West (documentary films)
  • Canada Now (national supper-hour newscast)
  • Canadian Gardener (gardening)
  • Cariboo Country (drama)
  • Celebrity Cooks (cooking)
  • Dr. Bundolo (sketch comedy)
  • Doctor Doctor (medical issues)
  • Downtown Saturday Night (variety)
  • Good Rockin' Tonite (music videos)
  • Hockey Talk (sports talk)
  • In The Company of Women (current affairs discussion)
  • Klahanie (outdoor activities)
  • Leo and Me (comedy)
  • Lotus Land (arts and entertainment magazine)
  • Night Final (local late-night newscast)
  • Northwood (teen drama)
  • Pacific Report (current affairs)
  • Reach For The Top (quiz show)
  • See BC on CBC (documentary films)
  • Sportfishing BC (outdoor activities)
  • Sportsline (sports highlights)
  • Switchback (teen variety)
  • Talkback Live (current affairs call-in)
  • The Beachcombers (drama)
  • The 11th Hour (sketch comedy)
  • The Inventors (inventions)
  • The Score (sports talk)
  • This Week in BC (news review)
  • Urban Peasant (cooking)
  • Wok with Yan (Oriental cooking)
  • Wolfman Jack Show (musical variety)
  • ZeD (independent short films)
  • Zero Avenue (arts and entertainment magazine)


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