CBUT: Первый телеканал Западной Канады

CBC Television station in Vancouver

CBUT DT (channel 2) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of CBC Television. It is part of a twinstick with Ici Radio Canada Télé station CBUFT DT (channel 26). The two stations share studios at the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre on Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver; CBUT DT's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour in the district municipality of North Vancouver.

The station first signed on the air on December 16, 1953; as such, CBUT is the first and oldest television station in Western Canada. The station's original studio facilities were located inside a converted automotive dealership at 1200 West Georgia Street (on the intersection of Bute Street) in downtown Vancouver. However, CBUT was not the first television station to serve Vancouverites; KVOS TV (channel 12, now a Univision affiliate), across the border in Bellingham, Washington, had signed on months earlier as a CBS affiliate. CBUT has broadcast exclusively in English for most of its existence, except for a period from 1964

CBUT currently produces a number of programs for CBC Television. Portions of Marketplace are produced at CBUT, as were portions of the program Hemispheres, the now cancelled national version of Canada Now and the late night independent film program ZeD.

CBUT presents Vancouver Canucks hockey games when Canucks games are featured on CBC Television's Hockey Night in Canada NHL package produced by Sportsnet, the regional TV and radio rightsholder for the Canucks. Additionally, CBUT presents the Winter and Summer Olympics as part of CBC's rights deal with the International Olympic Committee.

CBUT DT presently broadcasts 8 1/2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 90 minutes each weekday and 30 minutes each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among CBC Television's stations (either owned and operated or affiliated), although it now has the lowest newscast output among the Vancouver–Victoria market's television stations – its weekly news total is far behind CTV O&O CIVT DT (channel 32) (which airs 38 hours of newscasts each week) and Global O&O CHAN DT (channel 8) (which broadcasts 46 hours each week). In years past, the supper hour newscast (which was a completely locally produced program until the introduction of the national Canada Now) was known as Hourglass, Newscentre, CBC Evening News, Broadcast One and CBC News: Vancouver. On February 19, 2007, CBUT restored an hour long local newscast to its schedule with the debut of a local edition of CBC News at Six (which was later retitled CBC News: Vancouver in July of that year), which retained the Canada Now name and was originally anchored by former national Canada Now anchors Ian Hanomansing and Gloria Macarenko. In September 2009, the early evening newscast expanded to 90 minutes, with the addition of an hour long block at 5 p. m. and the removal of the 6:30 p. m. half hour of the program. In April 2010, CBC Television entered into a news share agreement with CHEK, in which both stations share news story content and resources. Tony Parsons also joined the CBC to anchor both CBUT's early evening news block and CHEK's 10 p. m. newscast, remaining with both stations until his retirement in 2013. In addition, CHEK formerly carried a simulcast of CBC News: Vancouver at 6 and Vancouver at 11 while CBUT also produced a weekend 6 p. m. newscast for that station. As of April 10, 2016, CHEK no longer carries CBUT's newscasts; on October 5, 2015, CHEK replaced the 6 p. m. airing of CBC News: Vancouver (since renamed as CBC Vancouver News) with its own half hour 6 p. m. newscast, hosted by former CTV and Global TV reporter Ben O'Hara Byrne, while on April 10, 2016, CHEK dropped the 11 p. m. airing of CBC Vancouver News in favour of an encore presentation of the 10 p. m. CHEK newscast on weeknights and various programming on Sundays. As of June 2013, weather segments seen on CBUT's newscasts are broadcast in HD, while video from other studio and field cameras are transmitted in standard definition and are upconverted to a 16:9 widescreen format. On July 30, 2014, CBUT announced that Andrew Chang would begin anchoring the early evening newscasts starting September 1, succeeding Gloria Macarenko, who announced on her last day of her newscasts that she would become host of CBC Radio's The Story from Here. However, Macarenko will remain host of Our Vancouver while producing interview segments during CBUT's evening newscasts.

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CBUT shut down its analogue signal, over VHF channel 2, on August 31, 2011, the official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts. The station's digital signal was relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 58, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to post transition channel 43, using virtual channel 2. Post transition, CBUT downconverted the high definition video resolution for its digital signal from 1080i to 720p.

In April 2017, Industry Canada posted new channel assignments for stations as a result of spectrum repacking due to the U. S. 600 MHz spectrum auction. CBUT DT moved to channel 35 on May 1, 2020. Channel 35 was previously occupied by KVOS TV; that station moved to channel 14 in October 2019.

CBUT's over 85 analogue rebroadcast transmitters were located on the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, and areas not previously occupied by a private CBC affiliate. Due to federal funding reductions to the CBC, in April 2012, the CBC responded with substantial budget cuts, which included shutting down CBC's and Radio Canada's remaining analogue transmitters on July 31, 2012. None of CBC or Radio Canada's television rebroadcasters were converted to digital; CHAN DT is the last major network station in Vancouver to operate rebroadcasters throughout the province.

In addition to its coverage in British Columbia, CBUT has a significant American audience in Washington state. The station's signal is receivable over the air in the city of Bellingham. It is also available on cable to nearly one million Comcast subscribers in the Puget Sound region; Comcast's Puget Sound system also began offering CBUT's digital signal in high definition in July 2009. CBUT is also available in both standard and high definition in Western and Central Washington on Wave Broadband's systems in Western Washington as well as Lake Chelan area systems.