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CBUT-DT, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 43), is a CBC Television owned-and-operated television station located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which serves as the Pacific Time Zone flagship of the network. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as part of a twinstick with Ici Radio-Canada Télé outlet CBUFT-DT (channel 26), which is operated through corporate subsidiary Société Radio-Canada. The two stations operate from the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre on Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour. On cable and satellite, the station is available on Shaw Cable, Telus TV, Bell TV and Shaw Direct. ==History== The station first signed on the air on December 16, 1953; as such, CBUT is the 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 Me-TV affiliate), across the border in Bellingham, Washington, had signed on months earlier as a CBS affiliate. CBUT has broadcast in English for most of its existence, except for a period from 1973 to 1976 when French language programmes from Télévision de Radio-Canada aired on weekend mornings;〔(Vancouver Broadcasters station history (1976) )〕 this secondary affiliation ended when CBUFT (channel 26) signed on in September 1976. CBUT was known mainly as "Channel 2" from its inception until 1976. During the station's early years until 1976, CBUT's station IDs consisted of slides of local Vancouver landmarks with the CBUT logo (the number "2" in Clarendon Bold typeface, contained within a stylized television screen) overlaid, accompanied by the announcement "This is CBUT, Channel 2 in Vancouver;" the ID slide used at the end of local programmes on CBUT featured a larger version of the station's logo on a navy blue background, accompanied by the announcement "This is CBC Television, Vancouver". Beginning with the introduction of CBC's "gem" logo in December 1974, CBUT (unlike other CBC O&Os, which continued using station IDs at the end of their local programmes) began using the "gem" network ID at the end of all programming, network-distributed and locally produced. In 1975, the CBC consolidated its Vancouver radio and television operations into one building. Prior to this, CBC's Vancouver radio properties – CBU (690 AM), CBU-FM (105.7) and CBUF-FM (97.7) – had operated from a separate studio facility at 701 Hornby Street, within the basement of the Hotel Vancouver. Together, those stations formed the basis of the Regional Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street, a few blocks east of its previous radio and television facilities. The station's IDs were changed in 1976 when CBUT changed its on-air branding to "CBC British Columbia," with the initial IDs featuring a totem pole superimposed over local landmarks, after which the totem pole zoomed out and turned into the letter "T" in the station brand. In recent years, CBUT, as with all CBC-owned stations, has de-emphasized local programming in favour of network programming distributed out of Toronto. As of 2002, the station only aired sporadic local non-news programming and dropped all use of local station identifications in favour of using only network IDs; in addition, due to budget cuts, the CBC integrated CBUT's master control operations (as it did for all of its other owned-and-operated stations) into the master control facility at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in downtown Toronto. Recently, however, CBUT has increased its local programming with the introduction of a locally themed lifestyle programme, ''Living Vancouver'' (which has since been cancelled), as well as the addition of several new local newscasts.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CBUT-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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