CBMT
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CBMT-DT is the CBC's
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. Programming on CBMT is seen on a network of more than 50 rebroadcasters throughout Quebec and in three communities in northern Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

: Brochet
Brochet, Manitoba
Brochet is an unincorporated community located in Northern Manitoba near the Saskatchewan border . There is no year round road service to the mostly Cree people. A winter road is in place only a few months a year. Air service at Brochet Airport is the main link outside the community...

, Poplar River, and Shamattawa
Shamattawa, Manitoba
Shamattawa is a community in Northern Manitoba, Canada and the location of the Shamattawa First Nation. It is located on the banks of Gods River where the Echoing River joins as a right tributary....

.

History

CBMT was Montreal's second television station; previously English and French-language programs had shared time on CBFT
CBFT
CBFT is the flagship station of Télévision de Radio-Canada, the French language television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Its studios and master control are located at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal....

, Canada's first 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
WCAX-TV
WCAX-TV, virtual channel 3, is a television station in Burlington, Vermont, USA. WCAX is affiliated with the CBS Television Network and has been locally owned by the Hasbrook/Martin family and their company, Mount Mansfield Television, since the station's inception...

 in Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....

 and WIRI-TV in Plattsburgh, New York (now known as WPTZ
WPTZ
WPTZ, virtual channel 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Plattsburgh, New York, USA. WPTZ is owned by Hearst Television, and has its studios in Plattsburgh and transmitter located on Mount Mansfield in Vermont....

). The CBC 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 full-fledged CBC station in Quebec province. Previously, the only other CBC station in the province had been Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

's CKMI-TV
CKMI-TV
CKMI-DT-1 is the Global Television Network owned-and-operated station in Quebec.Originally a privately owned CBC Television affiliate in Quebec City, the station moved most of its operations to Montreal in 1997 after launching a rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate as Global Quebec...

. However, in 1997, CKMI switched its affiliation to the Global Television Network
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...

. 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
Mount Royal
Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name.The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians...

 candelabra tower, in Mount Royal Park, overlooking the city of Montreal. As a result, channel 6 experiences severe multipath interference
Multipath interference
Multipath interference is a phenomenon in the physics of waves whereby a wave from a source travels to a detector via two or more paths and, under the right condition, the two components of the wave interfere...

 in parts of the city and South Shore.

It was also previously seen unscrambled on C-band satellite but this has since ended in the early-2000s, when it switched to a proprietary digital satellite signal. When the signal was sent unscrambled on the C-band, many American satellite viewers tuned into CBMT for a variety of news, entertainment, and sports — particularly CBC's Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 TV broadcasts, which gave a different perspective than the American broadcasts. That Canadian signal is still available, but it requires the purchase of a dedicated and expensive receiver, or a grey market
Grey market
A grey market or gray market also known as parallel market is the trade of a commodity through distribution channels which, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer...

 subscription to a Canadian satellite service. CBMT is also still available on many cable systems in Northern Vermont, Northern New York State, as far east as Belfast, Maine, and as far west as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

News operation

Like most other CBC stations, CBMT has an evening local newscast from 5 to 6:30 p.m. entitled CBC News: Montreal at Five/5:30/Six (title depending on time), anchored by Debra Arbec, Andrew Chang and Frank Cavallaro.

Newscast titles

  • Hourglass (1960s–1970s)
  • The City at 6/The City Tonight (1970s–1980s)
  • Newswatch (1980s–2000)
  • Canada Now (2000–2006)
  • CBC News: Calgary (2006–present)

News team

Anchors
  • Debra Arbec - CBC News: Montreal (weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.)
  • Andrew Chang - CBC News: Montreal (weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.)
  • Jennifer Hall - CBC News: Montreal (weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.)
  • Amanda Margison - CBC News: Montreal Late Night (weeknights at 10:55 p.m.)


Weather
  • Frank Cavallaro (member, CMOS) - lead meteorologist; CBC News: Montreal (weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.) and CBC News: Montreal Late Night (weeknights at 10:55 p.m.)
  • Kristin Falcao - weather specialist; fill-in


Sports
  • Andie Bennett - sports reporter; also heard on Daybreak Montreal on CBC Radio One
    CBC Radio One
    CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...



Reporters
  • Peter Akman - senior video journalist
  • Shawn Apel - investigative reporter ("I-Team")
  • Anna Askimakopulos - arts reporter
  • Catherine Cullen - video journalist
  • Daniel Halton - general assignment reporter
  • Shari Okeke - general assignment reporter
  • Lynne Robson - general assignment reporter

Transmitters

Station City of licence
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....

Channel
Channel (broadcasting)
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ERP
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

HAAT
Height above average terrain
Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts...

Transmitter Coordinates
CBMT-1 Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières means three rivers in French and may refer to:in Canada*Trois-Rivières, the largest city in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada*Circuit Trois-Rivières, a racetrack in Trois-Rivières, Quebec...

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90 kW 377.8 m 46°30′7"N 72°38′10"W
CBMT-3 Sherbrooke 50 (UHF
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14 kW 184.4 m 45°23′48"N 71°49′52"W
CBMT-4 Thetford Mines 32 (UHF
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1.6 kW 286.2 m 46°6′53"N 71°24′22"W
CBMCT Chibougamau 4 (VHF
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0.238 kW 118.2 m 49°52′29"N 74°22′58"W
CBMDT Mistissini
Mistissini, Quebec
Mistissini is a Cree town located in the south-east corner of the largest natural lake in Quebec, Lake Mistassini . The town is inside the boundaries of the Baie-James Municipality, and is the largest Cree community with a population of around 4000 people...

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 50°24′53"N 73°52′0"W
CBMET La Tuque
La Tuque, Quebec
La Tuque is a city in south central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. In 2006, it had a population of 11,821 Latuquois....

9 (VHF
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0.313 kW 104.9 m 47°25′25"N 72°45′47"W
CBMGT Chisasibi
Chisasibi, Quebec
Chisasibi is a village on the eastern shore of James Bay, in the Eeyou Istchee territory in northern Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the south shore of La Grande River , less than from the river's mouth...

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW 25.7 m 53°46′43"N 78°53′24"W
CBMHT Waskaganish
Waskaganish, Quebec
Waskaganish is a Cree village of about 2000 people at the mouth of the Rupert River on the south-east shore of James Bay in the Eeyou Istchee territory in Northern Quebec, Canada...

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 51°29′14"N 78°44′49"W
CBMIT Baie-Comeau 28 (UHF
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10.95 kW 108 m 49°13′59"N 68°8′30"W
CBMK-TV Kuujjuarapik
Kuujjuarapik, Quebec
Kuujjuarapik is the southernmost Inuit village at the mouth of the Great Whale River on the coast of Hudson Bay in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. About 800 people, mostly Cree, live in the adjacent village of Whapmagoostui. The community is only accessible by air and, in late summer, by boat...

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 55°16′46"N 77°45′1"W
CBMLT La Tabatière 10 (VHF
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0.2 kW 169 m 50°47′12"N 59°0′30"W
CBMMT Murdochville
Murdochville, Quebec
Murdochville is a small mining community located in Quebec, Canada. Its population is 812.The mining operation in the town was comparatively large, starting with mining the raw ore and finishing with an end product of pure copper anode. In the 1970s, the mining operation in Murdochville was large...

21 (UHF
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0.02 kW NA 48°57′56"N 65°28′40"W
CBMNT Wemindji
Wemindji, Quebec
Wemindji is a small Cree community on Paint Hills Bay off James Bay at the mouth of the Maquatua River in Quebec, Canada. The community has a population of 1238 people ....

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW 25.1 m 53°0′8"N 78°49′0"W
CBMO-TV Povungnituk 12 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 60°2′19"N 77°16′27"W
CBMPT Rivière-Saint-Paul 11 (VHF
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0.12 kW 70 m 51°28′45"N 57°42′56"W
CBMQ-TV Kuujjuaq
Kuujjuaq, Quebec
Kuujjuaq is the largest Inuit village in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada with a population of 2,132 as of the 2006 census. This is up roughly 10% from 1,932 as of the 2001 Census. It is the administrative capital of Nunavik and lies on the western shore of the Koksoak River.Kuujjuaq previously was known...

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 58°6′32"N 68°24′37"W
CBMRT Fermont
Fermont, Quebec
Fermont is a town in northeastern Quebec, Canada, near the Quebec-Labrador border about from Labrador City on Route 389, which connects to the Trans-Labrador Highway...

9 (VHF
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0.089 kW 83.3 m 52°49′12"N 67°5′26"W
CBMST Blanc-Sablon
Blanc-Sablon, Quebec
Blanc-Sablon, Quebec is the easternmost community in the province of Quebec, Canada, between the municipalities of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent and L'Anse-au-Clair, in Labrador...

5 (VHF
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0.93 kW 116.7 m 51°25′3"N 57°6′6"W
CBMUT Harrington-Harbour 13 (VHF
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0.244 kW 87.8 m 50°30′2"N 59°29′14"W
CBMVT Vieux-Fort 13 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 51°25′36"N 57°50′4"W
CBMXT Saint-Augustin 7 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 51°14′12"N 58°38′26"W
CBMYT Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Magdalen Islands
The Magdalen Islands form a small archipelago in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with a land area of . Though closer to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, the islands form part of the Canadian province of Quebec....

7 (VHF
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6.9 kW 199.7 m 47°23′3"N 61°55′0"W
CBJET Saguenay
Saguenay, Quebec
Saguenay is a city in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about north of Quebec City....

58 (UHF
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0.595 kW 183.7 m 48°25′29"N 71°6′30"W
CBJET-1 Alma
Alma, Quebec
Alma is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec.-Geography:Alma is located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, approximately 175 km north of Quebec City...

32 (UHF
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4 kW 60 m 48°31′49"N 71°37′56"W
CBSET Sept-Îles
Sept-Îles, Quebec
For the islands in north of Brittany, see JentilezSept-Îles is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec, Canada. It is the northernmost town in Quebec with any significant population...

3 (VHF
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3.7 kW 238.7 m 50°8′56"N 66°28′9"W
CBSET-1 Schefferville
Schefferville, Quebec
Schefferville is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. Schefferville is in the heart of the Naskapi and Innu territory in northern Quebec, less than 2 km from the border with Labrador on the north shore of Knob Lake. The town has an incorporated area of . It is located within the...

7 (VHF
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0.445 kW 135.3 m 54°48′0"N 66°51′7"W
CBVA-TV Escuminac
Escuminac, Quebec
Escuminac is a municipality in Quebec....

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9.95 kW 33.8 m 48°3′16"N 66°27′15"W
CBVB-TV Chandler
Chandler, Quebec
The port of Chandler was founded in 1912 when Percy Milton Chandler, a Philadelphia manufacturer, built the first pulp and paper mill in the Gaspésie at the site. This city of 7914 is the birthplace of NHL player Mathieu Garon. It is located at 48°21′N latitude, 64°41′ longitude. Its elevation is...

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3.09 kW -8.2 m 48°18′18"N 64°41′56"W
CBVD-TV Malartic
Malartic, Quebec
Malartic is a town on the Malartic River in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. It is located about east of the centre of Rouyn-Noranda along Quebec Route 117 and the Canadian National Railway....

5 (VHF
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19.2 kW 187.6 m 48°11′58"N 78°7′21"W
CBVE-TV Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

11 (VHF
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84 kW 500.1 m 46°47′5"N 71°15′53"W
CBVF-TV Port-Daniel
Port-Daniel–Gascons, Quebec
Port-Daniel-Gascons is a municipality in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada.-Notable residents:*Édouard Gagnon , a Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal, was born in Port-Daniel....

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2.54 kW 110 m 48°8′25"N 64°59′2"W
CBVG-TV Gaspé
Gaspé, Quebec
Gaspé is a city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the city had a total population of 14,819....

18 (UHF
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10.1 kW 424.5 m 48°50′1"N 64°15′24"W
CBVH-TV Wakeham 24 (UHF
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0.1 kW NA 48°49′40"N 64°36′3"W
CBVI-TV Inukjuak
Inukjuak, Quebec
Inukjuak , alternatively spelled Inoucdjouac, former name and current postal name Port Harrison, is an Inuit settlement located on Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Innuksuak River in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,294...

13 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 58°27′29"N 78°6′25"W
CBVN-TV New-Carlisle
New Carlisle, Quebec
New Carlisle, Quebec is a small town in the Gaspé region of Quebec, best known as the boyhood home of René Lévesque; although he was born at Campbellton, New Brunswick. The population is approximately 1430, half English-speaking and half French-speaking...

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11.32 kW 85.6 m 48°0′32"N 65°19′29"W
CBVP-TV Percé
Percé, Quebec
Percé is a small village near the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec. As a municipality, it is 432.39 square km in area. It has a long history of being an important seasonal fishing centre under the French...

14 (UHF
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10.7 kW 405.4 m 48°31′38"N 64°14′37"W
CBVR-TV New-Richmond
New Richmond, Quebec
New Richmond is an incorporated municipality in Quebec, Canada situated on the southern coast of the Gaspé Peninsula between the municipalities of Maria and Caplan. The first European settlers arrived from Scotland in 1755. The first arrivals were the Duthie brothers, George and John Duthie and...

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8.5 kW 171.9 m 48°8′50"N 65°47′43"W
CBVU-TV Maniwaki
Maniwaki, Quebec
Maniwaki is a town north of Gatineau and located north-west of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The town is situated on the Gatineau River, at the crossroads of Route 105 and Route 107, not far south of Route 117...

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3.15 kW 108 m 46°24′8"N 75°56′45"W
CBVW-TV Waswanipi
Waswanipi, Quebec
Waswanipi is a Cree/Iynu community in the Eeyou Istchee territory of central Quebec, Canada, located along Route 113 and near the confluence of the Chibougamau and Waswanipi Rivers. It has a population of 1,473 people...

8 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 49°41′41"N 75°58′7"W
CBVX-TV Salluit
Salluit, Quebec
Salluit is the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, Canada, located on Sugluk Inlet close to the Hudson Strait. Its population was 1241 in 2006 , and growing rapidly...

12 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 62°12′13"N 75°38′7"W
CBDE-TV Brochet, MB
Brochet, Manitoba
Brochet is an unincorporated community located in Northern Manitoba near the Saskatchewan border . There is no year round road service to the mostly Cree people. A winter road is in place only a few months a year. Air service at Brochet Airport is the main link outside the community...

9 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 57°53′3"N 101°40′18"W
CBDG-TV Shamattawa, MB
Shamattawa, Manitoba
Shamattawa is a community in Northern Manitoba, Canada and the location of the Shamattawa First Nation. It is located on the banks of Gods River where the Echoing River joins as a right tributary....

9 (VHF
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0.01 kW NA 55°51′19"N 92°5′7"W
CBDI-TV Poplar River, MB 13 (VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...

)
0.01 kW NA 52°59′39"N 97°16′42"W

Audience outside Canada

CBMT also has substantial viewership in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, mostly from Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

 to northeastern New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. It is also seen via cable TV in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

, northern Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

, and northern Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 — CBMT is the CBC station of choice for Charter Communications
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...

 CATV systems in Bay City
Bay City, Michigan
Bay City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 34,932, and is the principal city of the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Saginaw-Bay City-Saginaw Township North...

, Midland
Midland, Michigan
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan in the Tri-Cities region of the state. It is the county seat of Midland County. The city's population was 41,863 as of the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Midland Micropolitan Statistical Area....

, Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Mount Pleasant is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Isabella County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 25,946. The 2008 census estimate places the population at 26,675....

, Alpena
Alpena, Michigan
Alpena is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Alpena County. It is considered to be part of Northern Michigan. The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary is located in the city. The population was 10,483 at the 2010 census...

 and Marquette
Marquette, Michigan
Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...

.

CBMT is also broadcast in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 and Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

 on Flow Cable and in the Bahamas on Cable Bahamas.

Digital television and high definition

Analog Channel Virtual Channel Digital Channel Programming
6 6.1 21.1 main CBMT programming / CBC


After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion
Digital television in Canada
Digital television in Canada is transmitted using the ATSC standards developed for and in use in the United States. Because Canada and the U.S...

, which takes place on August 31, 2011, CBMT has move from its pre-transition channel number, 20, to its post-transition channel number, 21. However, through the use of PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...

, digital television receivers will display CBMT's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 as 6.1. Digital frequencies and their PSIPs for CBMT's repeaters may vary.

Transmitters in mandatory markets are required to go digital or be taken off the air by the transition deadline of August 31, 2011. The CBC had originally decided that none of its rebroadcasters will transition to digital and instead will remain in analog. The CBC has rebroadcasters of CBMT in the following mandatory markets:
  • CBVE-TV Quebec City
  • CBJET Saguenay
  • CBMT-3 Sherbrooke
  • CBMT-1 Trois-Rivières


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

The requirement remains for any of corporation's full power transmitters occupying channels 52 to 69 to either relocate to channels 2 to 51 or become low power transmitters. In some cases, CBC has opted reduce the power of existing transmitters to low power transmitters, which will result in signal loss for some viewers.

CBMT has been broadcasting a digital signal over-the-air since February 21, 2005. The analogue channel 6 was silenced at 12:01 am on September 1, 2011
2011 in Canadian television
- January :- February :- March :- April :- May :- June :- August :- Seoptember :- October :- November :- Debuts :Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2011...

.

See also


External links

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