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CFQC-DT, VHF channel 8, is a CTV owned-and-operated station located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Bell Media. CFQC's studios are located on 1st Avenue North and 23rd Street East in the Central Business District neighbourhood, and its transmitter is located near Highway 41 and Burgheim Road, northeast of Saskatoon. The station also operates rebroadcast transmitters in Stranraer and North Battleford. This station can be seen on SaskTel Max channel 4 and 304 in HD, Shaw Cable channel 9, Bell TV channel 249, Shaw Direct (channel 378 Classic Lineup, channel 66 Advanced Lineup) and in high definition on digital channel 210. ==History== CFQC-TV first signed on the air on December 5, 1954; it was originally owned by the Murphy family along with CFQC radio (AM 600, now CKBL-FM at FM 92.9). The first program broadcast (other than test patterns) was a film of the 42nd Grey Cup game, followed by assorted entertainment programs and the station's first newscast. CFQC reported the next day that 40,000 viewers had tuned in, with the station's signal reported to have been received as far away as 40 miles south of Regina. Initially a CBC affiliate, as early as 1967, the Murphys wanted to switch to CTV. However, these plans were put on hold in November 1967 when the federal government denied an application for a new CBC station, citing budget cuts, among other reasons. Eventually, however, Regina's CBKRT (now CBKT) won permission to set up a rebroadcaster in Saskatoon. CFQC-TV, meanwhile, started airing CTV programs on tape delay in 1969, becoming a full-time CTV affiliate in 1971 when CBKST signed on as a rebroadcaster of CBKRT. The Murphy family bowed out of broadcasting in 1972 and sold CFQC-AM-TV to Baton Broadcasting, owners of CTV's flagship station, CFTO-TV in Toronto. There were some concerns that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) would not approve of one person owning two CTV stations, especially if that person was Baton. At the time, CTV was a cooperative based on the concept of "one owner, one vote." However, a provision in the cooperative's bylaws provided that if one owner ever bought a second station, the acquired station's shares would be redistributed among the other seven owners so that each owner would still have only one vote out of eight. The CRTC approved the deal in late 1972, and the Murphy family earned a handsome return on patriarch Pappy Murphy's original investment when he founded CFQC radio in 1923. In 1986, Baton purchased CKCK-TV in Regina and CBC/CTV twinsticks in Yorkton and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Eventually, CFQC-TV became the centre of Baton's Saskatchewan operations. In 1987, Baton's six Saskatchewan stations began branding as the Saskatchewan Television Network, which joined with Baton's Ontario stations in 1994 as the Baton Broadcast System. Baton bought controlling interest in CTV in 1997, making CFQC-TV a CTV owned-and-operated station. In the past, it identified itself as "CFQC", "TV8" and (during much of the 1970s and '80s) "QC8, Saskatoon Television." Although now known as "CTV Saskatoon", per the current branding standards for CTV affiliates, many longtime viewers in central and northern Saskatchewan still refer to the station as "QC" or "QC8". A number of local programs were produced at CFQC's Saskatoon studios over the years. Children's television host Helen Lumby hosted a kindergarten-focused show at CFQC in her early career, before moving on to create ''Size Small''. In the 1970s and 1980s the station aired a number of public affairs programs, often with titles playing on the "Q" element of the station identity, such as ''Big Q Country'' (political discussion) and ''Q-Line'' (a phone-in program where viewers could ask questions of civic leaders, among others). CFQC also produced a companion program to the national ''Canada AM'' morning show titled ''Saskatchewan AM'', which combined local news with children's programming such as reruns of ''Rocket Robin Hood''. From 1954 until 1991, CFQC-TV shared some on-air personnel such as newsreaders with CFQC-AM, as well as studio facilities. This ended when CFQC-AM was sold. The radio station continued to share the CFQC call letters after it moved to the FM dial in 1995 (though for promotional purposes it was rebranded Hot93). In 2007, CFQC-FM officially changed call letters to CKBL-FM, leaving the TV station the only user of the original call letters dating back to 1923. Master control facilities for all CTV Saskatchewan stations including CFQC-TV were relocated to 9 Channel Nine Court in Toronto, home to longtime sister station and CTV flagship CFTO-TV at the turn of the 21st century. Its official call letters, CFQC-TV, were modified to CFQC-DT in 2011 when it, along with other Canadian broadcasters, moved from analog to digital broadcasting. CFQC's programming is aired in pattern with that of Winnipeg affiliate CKY-DT, with primetime programming running from 7:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. simultaneously with east coast stations, and CTV's 7 p.m. ET programming at 10 p.m. instead. However, as Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving time and remains on Central Standard Time year-round, programming is delayed by an hour in comparison to CKY when DST is in effect. 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「CFQC-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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