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CBWT-DT, virtual channel 6.1 (UHF digital channel 27), is a CBC Television owned-and-operated television station located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as part of a twinstick with Télévision de Radio-Canada outlet CBWFT-DT (channel 3), which is operated through its Société Radio-Canada arm. The two stations share studios located on Portage Avenue and Young Street in downtown Winnipeg, and CBWT's transmitter is located near Red Coat Trail/Highway 2) in Macdonald. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable and MTS TV channel 2, and Bell TV channel 226. There is a high definition feed offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 209, MTS TV channel 416, and Bell TV channel 1090. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 332 (Classic) or 032 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 028 (Classic) or 528 (Advanced). CBWT can also be seen on several cable systems in northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota including cities such as Grand Forks, North Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota. It is the only CBC Television station in the province of Manitoba, since Brandon station CKX-TV closed on October 2, 2009; since approximately 1998, it has been available on cable in Brandon, Manitoba on digital channel 62, and since the demise of CKX-TV, it can now be seen on analogue cable channel 6. ==History== Planning for CBWT started in November 1952, when the Government of Canada announced its intention of setting up a television station in Winnipeg. The station was announced by J. R. Finlay at a Cosmopolitan Club meeting at the Marlborough Hotel on September 16, 1953. At the time, the station was projected to become western Canada's first television station (before Vancouver's CBUT), but was delayed. There was an entry for CBWT in the 1953 MTS telephone book. In September 1953, CBC Winnipeg moved into a new . facility at 541 Portage Avenue, from its former location within the Manitoba Telephone Building on Portage Ave. East. It is still there today, and it shares this location with CBW (AM) and CBW-FM. A few months later, on May 31, 1954, CBWT began as a bilingual station on channel 4 with an EIRP of 60,000 watts. In the same year that CBWT went to air, another station, KXJB-TV (Valley City/Fargo, North Dakota) also began broadcasting. There were doubts from the start whether there would be interference between the two stations. Its first equipment consisted of an RCA Victor ''TT10AL Television Transmitter'' and a 196 foot 6-section Super Turnstile Type ''TF-6AM Television Antenna'', located atop the station's roof. One of CBWT's first big mobile production was ''Ice Revue'', which was broadcast from the Winnipeg Winter Club in March 1956. However, as a mobile production, the equipment was different from that present in the studio. Several people had phoned the station complaining that their television set would get stuck in vertical or horizontal hold. This would occur when the switcher at the mobile unit went from one camera to another. Older (tube) television sets had a sync. generator and this was blamed for the reception problem. On September 30, 1956, it connected to the Trans-Canada Microwave Relay System, which allowed Winnipeggers to watch television programing from CBC television on the same day it was broadcast in Toronto and Montreal. To celebrate this link CBC Television produced a special one-hour program, ''Along the Tower Trail'', the Winnipeg segment featured a view of the CPR's Marshalling Yards, the St. Boniface basilica, a prairie harvest clip, and a musical piece sung by the Andrew Mynarski School choir. By late 1957, it was decided to move CBWT from channel 4 to channel 3. The changeover occurred in April 1958. ''Eye-To-Eye'' was a weekly local current affairs program broadcast from 10.15 to 11 p.m. every Tuesday, and was the predecessor to ''24Hours''. It debut on October 20, 1959, and was similar in style to Close-Up on the national network. The first topics covered were: "The Slums of Winnipeg", "Civic Politics – A Sick Joke" and "Interview – Two Young Ladies". ''Eye-To-Eye'' was produced by Ken Black and Warner Troyer. On April 24, 1960, the station became English-only, while French programming moved to the newly launched CBWFT. At the same time two VTRs, worth $75,000 each were installed at the station to replace the kinescope system used previously. The local version of ''Reach for the Top'' debut in 1962 and was hosted by Bill Guest, alternately by Ernie Nairn. The program ran until 1985. On November 16, 1964, it swapped channels with CBWFT and higher powered transmitters were installed on a new antenna mast high near Starbuck, Manitoba. Reception as far as 113 kilometres would now be possible. This had the effect of improving reception of the station in the towns of Portage la Prairie, Gimli, Carman, Winkler, Morden, Morris, Letellier, Emerson, Altona, and Dominion City. It continues to be the tallest free-standing structure in the province. This is mainly for many FM tuners to get the English feed rather than the French feed on 87.7 FM. However, with the switch of the station to digital television only and decommissioning of the former analog feed, channel 6 stations can no longer be heard at the lower end of the FM band. There was a large NABET strike throughout the CBC organization in the Spring of 1981, and production of ''24Hours'' was halted. Strike action began at 10:30 p.m. on May 3, 1981. Shortly after the Mulroney government came to power in 1984, they made major cuts to the CBC, and as a result 86 staff members were let go at CBWT. There was a second round of major cuts in December 1990, which had a negative effect on local production, especially on the resources of ''24Hours''. On February 27, 1997, CBC Manitoba announced that it would update and expand by 2,700 m² its studio facilities for the cost of $2.8 million. In 1998, CBC Manitoba's newsroom and studios were expanded into a new building, after essentially using portables and an abandoned church as its news operations for many years. The television studio now features a window looking down onto Portage. A new digital Betacam SX format was introduced, one of the first CBC stations to transition to make use of it. The first television broadcast from the new studio occurred on Monday, September 21, 1998. Previous programs produced at CBWT include ''Fred Penner's Place'', ''It's a Living'', and ''Disclosure''. Disclosure was canceled in 2003. Peter Mansbridge, anchor of ''The National'', began his career at CBWT. 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「CBWT-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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