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CBC North is the broadcast radio and television network run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, servicing the citizens of the Canadian Arctic in English, Inuktitut and other northern aboriginal languages.

[edit] History

The television service began in 1967 as part of what was then known as the CBC Northern Service. At that time, limited TV service was carried by the CBC to remote and northern Canadian communities in the form of the Frontier Coverage Package (FCP), a four-hour daily schedule of black-and-white taped programming flown in from Toronto. CFYK-TV began operations as part of the FCP in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in 1967, followed by CFWH-TV in Whitehorse, Yukon on November 26, 1968, then joined by CHAK-TV in Inuvik, NWT on August 22, 1969 and by CFFB-TV in Frobisher Bay, NWT (now Iqaluit, Nunavut) on February 1, 1972.

Satellite delivery of 12 hours of daily color programming via the Anik satellite began in 1973. Local program production began in 1982 with the debut of the current affairs program Focus North, along with Inuktitut-language programs produced for CBC North by the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. CBC North's head office moved from Ottawa, Ontario to Yellowknife in 1992, the same year it began contributing some programming to the newly-established Television Northern Canada (the predecessor of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network).

CBC North's television unit airs mostly English-language Canadian content produced in Toronto and at the regional CBC production centres in southern Canada, along with some off-network American programs, and it produces some local content in the form of two daily newscasts, CBC News: Northbeat (anchored in English by Randy Henderson) and CBC News: Igalaaq (anchored in Inuktitut by Rassi Nashalik), and a weekly Cree-language magazine program, Maamuitaau (hosted by Benjamin Masty). All local programming on CBC North originates in Yellowknife and its other regional studios.

Unlike other CBC-owned stations, CBC North does not air conventional advertising, choosing instead to run promos for CBC shows and public service announcements tailored to the Canadian Arctic.

[edit] CBC North stations (including city of licence and date of first sign-on)

Station	City	First sign-on date	Notes
CHAK-TV	Inuvik, Northwest Territories	August 22, 1969
CFFB-TV	Iqaluit, Nunavut	February 1, 1972
CFWH-TV	Whitehorse, Yukon	November 26, 1968
CFYK-TV	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories	1967	Flagship station of CBC North

[edit] External links

• CBC North