CBC Television

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Start of transmission September 6, 1952
owner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Canadian Broadcasting Center in Toronto
Canadian Broadcasting Center in Vancouver

CBC Television is an English-speaking Canadian television network . It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and is Canada's oldest national public television broadcaster that is publicly funded. In addition to Canada, the station can also be received in the US cable system.

Program scheme

News and information

The station broadcasts several times a day current national and international news programs, of which the greater will be broadcast at the following times: CBC News Morning at 5:00 am, CBC News Today at 12:00 am and in the evening at 22:00 The National . The latter is the most important news program that reports on current national and international events and is broadcast daily nationwide at 10:00 p.m. The program is staggered by one hour and broadcast on other regional channels in the CBC network. In the early evening between 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., the latest business and local news are on the program. In addition to the news, magazines such as the fifth estate as well as documentaries and reports are broadcast weekly .

Sports

One of the most popular sports programs is the weekly Hockey Night in Canada , which is broadcast on Saturday evenings and has been reporting on current hockey games since 1952. Due to the lost broadcasting rights for the 2004-2005 hockey season, CBC broadcast various classic films as replacements, which were introduced as Movie Night in Canada and were broadcast on Saturday evenings instead of Hockey Night in Canada . After massive criticism from viewers, it was decided to broadcast the greatest hockey games of the past as well as other sports such as B. to include basketball , soccer and the amateur league in the program. There are reports and interviews with the Toronto Raptors basketball team , the Toronto FC Soccer team and other important events in professional and amateur sports.

entertainment

Prime-time evening programming broadcasts series, films and shows, including the Rick Mercer Report comedy shows , This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Little Mosque on the Prairie . There is also the British drama series The Tudors , the Canadian series Heartland and Intelligence , Coronation Street , Doctor Who , Dragons' Den , The Border . Other programs on the station include the Republic of Doyle , Cracked and Murdoch Mysteries series . Other series and shows:

  • Rumors
  • Underdogs
  • Jozi-H
  • The One: Making a Music Star
  • 72 Hours: True Crime
  • Kenny vs. Spenny

CBC HDTV

Since 2005, CBC has gradually started broadcasting in parallel in the new HDTV format . Initially, the larger metropolises were converted to the new broadcast format, then CBC began to supply the smaller cities with HDTV.

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