CBC Television
CBC Television
Type
Broadcast television network
Country
Canada
Availability National (available in parts of
northern U.S. and Caribbean,
via cable or antenna)
Owner
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (Government of
Canada)
Key people
Richard Stursberg, executive
vice president
John D. Cruickshank, editor in
chief
Kristine Layfield, director of
programming
Launch date September 6, 1952
Website
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television net-
work. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcast-
ing Corporation. This channel can be also
seen on some American cable systems.
Overview
CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour
network schedule of news, sports, entertain-
ment and children’s programming, in most
cases feeding the same programming at the
same local times nationwide, except to the
Newfoundland Standard Time Zone, where
programs air 30 minutes "late". As of 6:00
a.m. on October 9, 2006, the network went to
a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last
major English-language broadcasters to do
so. Previously, most CBC-owned stations ac-
tually signed off the airwaves during the
early morning hours (typically 1:00 a.m. to
6:00 a.m.). Instead of the infomercials aired
by most private stations, or a simulcast of
CBC Newsworld in the style of BBC One’s
nightly simulcast of BBC News 24, CBC will
use the time to air repeats, including local
news, primetime series, movies, and other
programming
from the CBC
library.[1]
However,
its French counterpart, Radio-
Canada, still signs off every night.
While historically there has been room for
regional differences in the schedule, as there
is today (see "Stations", below), for CBC-
owned stations, funding has decreased to the
point that most of these stations only broad-
cast 30 to 60 minutes a day of local news,
and usually no other local programming.[2]
Until the mid-1990s, the network carried a
variety of American programs in addition to
its core Canadian programming, directly
competing with private Canadian broad-
casters such as CTV and Global. Sinc