CBOT (TV)

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CBOT
Ottawa, Ontario
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	"Canada's Own"
Channels	4 (VHF) / Cable 8 analog, 25 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	CBC
Founded	June 2, 1953
Call letters meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Ottawa Television
Transmitter Power	100 kW
Website	CBC Ottawa

CBOT is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television station in Ottawa, Ontario. The third television station in Canada, CBOT went on the air for the first time on June 2, 1953. It is located in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre.

CBOT is a semi-satellite of CBLT in Toronto, Ontario, only airing different local newscasts, hockey games and commercials. Before the launch of CBOFT, CBOT aired both English language and French language programs.

[edit] Station Branding History

During the late 1970s into the early 1980s, CBOT was known as "CBC 4 Ottawa", and its newscasts were known as "CBC 4 News". In 1980, CBC 4 News at six was anchored by Ab Douglas, and by Joe Spence at 11:27, following The National. In the mid-1980s the station was known as "CBOT 4", then as "CBC Ottawa".

[edit] Logos

Channel 4 logo used by CBOT for several years in the early 1980s.

CBOT NewsDay logo, 2000.

[edit] External link

• CBC Ottawa

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Broadcast television stations in the Ottawa-Gatineau market

Local television stations CBOT 4 (CBC) - CIII-6 6 (Global) - CBOFT 9 (SRC) - CHCH-1 11 (CH) - CJOH 13/8 (CTV) - CJMT-2 14 (OMNI.2) - CICO-24 24 (TVO) - CIVO 30 (TQC) - CITS-1 32 (CTS) - CFGS 34 (TQS) - CHOT 40 (TVA) - CHRO-2 43 (A-Channel) - CFMT-2 60 (OMNI.1) - CITY-3 65 (Citytv)

Defunct television stations CJSS 8 (CBC, Cornwall) - CFVO 30 (TVA, Hull)

Experimental HDTV Stations CRC-DT 54/67 IND)

See also Broadcast television in the Pembroke/Petawawa, Watertown/Kingston, Greater Toronto, Montreal and Champlain Valley markets