CBNT-DT

CBNT-DT
Brand	CBC Newfoundland and Labrador
City of License	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Market	Newfoundland and Labrador
Channel	8 digital Formerly: 8 analog (1964-2011)
Network Affiliation	CBC Television
Founded	October 1, 1964
Company	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	CBC News: Here and Now Land and Sea

CBNT-DT is a Canadian local station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and affiliated with CBC Television. It broadcasts on digital channel 8.

CBNT also had several rebroadcasters in Newfoundland and Labrador which formerly operated as self-supporting stations within the network—CBYT in Corner Brook, CBNLT in Labrador City and CFLA-TV in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. These rebroadcasters were shut down as part of the CBC's analog television transmitter deactivation outside of major cities on July 31, 2012 due to budget cuts. As a result, CBNT is now carried across the province outside of St. John's via cable and satellite only.

History

CBNT began operations on October 1, 1964 as the second television station in St. John's and the new local CBC station (as well as the second CBC-owned station in Newfoundland after CBYT, which first signed on in 1959), leading to previous CBC affiliate CJON-TV to switch networks to CTV the same day. That same year, CBNT began production on its local version of Land and Sea, which is still in production and is CBC Television's longest-running regional program. For its first two years, the station operated out of the Browning Harvey Building on Water Street West in the downtown area before relocating to its present studios at 95 University Avenue in 1966. In addition to the Newfoundland version of Land and Sea, CBNT produced other local programming over the years, including a provincial version of high school quiz show Reach for the Top, Skipper and Company (a children's show), Ryan's Fancy (musical variety, hosted by the Irish-Newfoundland music group of the same name), Yarns from Pigeon Inlet (TV adaptations of stories written by Ted Russell), Where They Once Stood (community profiles), East of Canada: The Story of Newfoundland (historic documentary miniseries) and Living Newfoundland and Labrador (a provincial version of the Living regional lifestyle series franchise).

CBNT began expanding its broadcast reach across Newfoundland in 1965 with the activation of its first three retransmitters, CBNT-1 in Port Rexton on April 29, CBNT-2 in Placentia on November 27 and CBNT-3 in Marystown on November 30. Around 1966, CBNT's operating power was increased to 196 kilowatts video and 98 kilowatts audio. With the arrival of color television in Canada in September 1966, CBNT began airing network shows in color that year. Another rebroadcaster, CBNAT in Grand Falls, signed on in 1967. In 1968, Newfoundland and Maritime viewers, who had been watching CBC network programming at later times than stations elsewhere in Canada due to time zone differences (60 minutes later in the Atlantic Time zone and 90 minutes later in the Newfoundland Time zone), began seeing those programs at their scheduled network times (30 mintues later in Newfoundland) with the opening of CBC's Halifax delay centre, based at local O&O CBHT.

In 1973, the CBC acquired Labrador City station CJCL-TV (which it recalled as CBNLT) from the Iron Ore Company of Canada Aviation Ltd. and Happy Valley-Goose Bay station CFLA from the United States Air Force (which had been jointly operating the station with the CBC), then made both stations semi-satellites of CBNT. On February 21, 1980, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) denied an application by the CBC to activate a low-power retransmitter of CBNT in St. John's on channel 12, which the CBC intended to cover areas of the city which did not get adequate over-the-air reception of CBNT. Beginning in 1984 and running until 2011 (when it moved to CJON), CBNT aired annual telecasts of the Janeway Children's Miracle Network Telethon on the weekend following the American Memorial Day holiday; during the telethon's early years until the early 1990s, CBNT produced the telethon in conjunction with Avalon Cablevision at Avalon's studios using CBNT personalities and Avalon production crew, with Avalon's Cable 9 feed of the telethon broadcast simulcast regionally on CBC O&Os in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 1991, CBYT, CBNLT and CFLA all ceased producing their own programming due to budget cuts and became full rebroadcasters of CBNT. In line with other CBC-owned stations in Canada, CBNT began using the generic CBC Television network branding in 2002 and continued doing so until the spring of 2015. On April 30, 2007, CBNT was joined at its University Avenue studios by sister radio stations CBN and CBN-FM, which had moved from their old studios at the old Avalon Telephone building at 342 Duckworth Avenue in the downtown area. On August 31, 2011, as part of the transition of Canadian television broadcasting from analog to digital, CBNT's channel 8 analog signal went off the air while CBNT-DT's digital signal signed on at the analog signal's old channel. On July 31, 2012, as part of CBC Television's shutdown of its analog rebroadcasters, all of CBNT's transmitters outside of St. John's (including CBYT, CBNLT and CFLA) were deactivated, leaving most of Newfoundland and Labrador outside of St. John's to receive CBNT via cable and satellite only (with the exception of some cable systems in the province owned by EastLink, which replaced CBNT with CBHT). In the spring of 2015, when CBC Television began using regional branding for its owned-and-operated stations again, CBNT began using its previous on-air brand CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.

As noted above, due to its location in the Newfoundland Time zone (which encompasses the island of Newfoundland in that part of the province and is 30 minutes ahead of the Atlantic Time zone), CBNT, which broadcasts on an Atlantic Time schedule, airs CBC network programming 30 minutes later than other CBC O&Os in the rest of Canada. With master control for all CBC stations now centrally based in Toronto, a satellite-fed Newfoundland Time schedule for CBNT, with all network shows airing in pattern with the rest of the country, is a future possibility for the station, but the CBC has made no immediate plans to change CBNT's schedule due to viewer familiarity with the schedule and problems with co-ordinating it with live sports programming (like Hockey Night in Canada), news specials and breaking news reports. Due to budget cuts by the CBC over the years, local programming on CBNT is limited to a TV simulcast of an hour of local CBC Radio One station CBN's morning show The St. John's Morning Show, the supper-hour newscast CBC Here and Now, the regional late-night newscast Atlantic Tonight (which is broadcast to the four Atlantic provinces out of CBHT) and Land and Sea.

Current Prime-Time Schedule

Note: Schedule is subject to change due to live sports coverage and special programming.

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	11:00
Monday	Coronation Street	Schitt's Creek	Murdoch Mysteries		Plan B		The National		Atlantic Tonight
Tuesday	Coronation Street	Schitt's Creek	This Hour Has 22 Minutes	Still Standing	Animal Control	The New Wave of Standup	The National		Atlantic Tonight
Wednesday	Coronation Street	Schitt's Creek	The Knowing		The Passionate Eye		The National		Atlantic Tonight
Thursday	Coronation Street	Schitt's Creek	Dragons' Den		My Mum, Your Dad		The National		Atlantic Tonight
Friday	Coronation Street	Coronation Street	Marketplace	About That with Andrew Chang	The Fifth Estate		The National		Atlantic Tonight
Saturday	Hockey Night in Canada								Atlantic Tonight
Sunday	Heartland		The Great Canadian Baking Show		Crime Scene Kitchen		The National		Atlantic Tonight

External Sites

• CBC Newfoundland and Labrador