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CBFT-DT, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 19), is the flagship station of the French language Ici Radio-Canada Télé broadcast network located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the Société Radio-Canada arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as part of a twinstick with CBC Television outlet CBMT-DT (channel 6). The two stations share studios and master control facilities based at Maison Radio-Canada on René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal, and CBFT's transmitter is located atop Mount Royal. This station can also be seen on Vidéotron Montreal cable channel 2, Charter Plattsburgh channel 5 and Comcast Burlington channel 22. There is also a high definition feed available on Vidéotron digital channel 602. It is also seen on direct broadcast satellite throughout Canada. ==History== CBFT was the first permanent television station in Canada (an experimental station, VE9EC, had been on the air in Montreal in 1931). It launched on September 6, 1952 at 4 p.m., beating CBLT in Toronto by two days. The station went on the air with the movie ''Aladdin and His Lamp'', followed by a cartoon, and then a French film, a news segment and a bilingual variety show.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CBC Television debuts )〕 The station aired programming in both French (60 percent) and English (40 percent), a practice common for many stations in Quebec at the time. This continued until January 10, 1954, when CBMT was launched on VHF channel 6. At that time, all English programming moved to CBMT, while CBFT became the flagship of the ''Télévision de Radio-Canada'' network for francophone viewers. CBMT's sign-on was hastened by the planned launch of television stations across the border in Burlington and Plattsburgh. Through its translator network that existed prior to the digital transition, CBFT's over-the-air footprint extended across most of Quebec, parts of Ontario, and most of northern Canada (Northwest Territories and Nunavut). Due to a lack of sources for alternative programming, most Radio-Canada stations--both O&Os and affiliates--are effectively semi-satellites of CBFT. For the most part, their schedules are largely identical to those of CBFT, other than commercials and regional news. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CBFT-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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