CBUT

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CBUT

Brand	CBC Television
City of License	Vancouver, British Columbia
Market	Vancouver, British Columbia
Channel	analog 2, digital 58
Network Affiliation	Current: CBC Television Historic: Radio-Canada (secondary, 1973-1976)
Founded	December 16, 1953
Company	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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CBUT is a Canadian local station in Vancouver, British Columbia, owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and affiliated with CBC Television. It broadcasts on analog channel 2, and on digital channel 58.

1 History
2 Current Prime-Time Schedule
3 References
4 External Sites

[edit] History

CBUT signed on for the first time on December 16, 1953 as the first TV station in Western Canada. It was originally located at 1200 West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver, separate from the CBC's Vancouver radio operations which were then located at 701 Hornby Street, in the basement of the nearby Hotel Vancouver.

CBUT began a secondary affiliation with Radio-Canada Télévision, CBC Television's co-owned French-language counterpart, in 1973 to air French programming on Saturday and Sunday mornings^[1]. This arrangement continued until Radio-Canada sister station CBUFT began operations on September 27, 1976.

On November 24, 1975, CBUT, along with the CBC Vancouver radio stations, relocated to new facilities at the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street, a few blocks east of their original locations. CBUT had been known on-air as Channel 2 from its first sign-on until 1976, when it rebranded on-air as CBC British Columbia, a brand used until all regional branding by CBC-owned stations was discontinued in 2002 in favor of using the generic CBC Television network branding.

CBUT's local programming content is limited to its newscasts, CBC News: Vancouver at Five (a 90-minute supper-hour news show), CBC News: Vancouver Late Night (a late-night ten-minute news update) and the weekend late newscasts CBC News: Vancouver Saturday and CBC News: Vancouver Sunday. CBUT also previously aired Living Vancouver, its version of CBC Television's Living regional lifestyle series franchise, until budget cuts led to all Living programs ending production at the end of the 2008-2009 season.