CBOFT

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CBOFT
city =
station_
station_slogan = Ici comme dans la vie
station_branding = Radio-Canada Ontario-Outaouais
analog = 9 (VHF)
digital = 22 (UHF)
other_chs = see below
affiliations = Radio-Canada
network =
airdate = June 24, 1955
location = Ottawa, Ontario
callsign_meaning = "Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
Ottawa
Français
T"'élévision
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Société Radio-Canada
licensee =
sister_stations = CBOF-FM, CBOX-FM
former_affiliations = TVA (secondary, 1977-1978)
effective_radiated_power = 252 kW (analog)
66 kW (digital)
HAAT = 424.9 m (analog)
332.9 m (digital)
coordinates = coord|45|30|9|N|75|50|59|W|type:landmark
homepage = [http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ottawa/ Radio-Canada Ottawa]

CBOFT is the Radio-Canada station serving Franco-Ontarians in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, and the Québécois in the Outaouais region of Quebec. It is also the flagship of the provincewide "Ontario-Outaouais" network. ("Outaouais" is French for "Ottawa", usually in reference to the river and the valley, and not the capital, which francophones call "Ottawa", like the English.)

It is the network's primary affiliate in Ontario. Toronto's CBLFT and its rebroadcasters, including the previously-separate CBEFT in Windsor, are now officially designated as repeaters of CBOFT, and both stations now carry a "local" newscast which is produced by the Ottawa station. The station identifies itself as " [Societé] Radio-Canada: Ontario-Outaouais" on-air, reflecting its de-facto status as driving a repeater chain feeding all of Ontario and part of Québec (Ottawa-Gatineau and the National Capital Region being divided between two provinces). Prior to the arrival of the Ottawa Senators NHL team, the station would broadcast the Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday nights, while the English counterpart, CBOT, would carry the Toronto Maple Leafs games during the Saturday night Hockey Night in Canada slot.

Before CBOFT went to air in 1955, CBOT aired both CBC and SRC programs.

For a brief time during 1977 and 1978, until CHOT opened, CBOFT also carried some TVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate, CFVO-TV (whose channel 30 frequency is now occupied by CIVO) went bankrupt.

The station has been assigned digital transition channel 22.

News staff and reporters

* Michel Picard, "News anchor, 6 PM news"
* Nathalie Tremblay, "News Anchor, 12 PM news"
* Daniel Bouchard, "Reporter, occasional news anchor"
* Elise Brunet, "Reporter"
* Frédérica Dupuis, "Reporter"
* Réné Petit, "Reporter"
* Mathieu Nadon, "Reporter"
* Denis Babin, "Reporter (Hawkesbury)"
* Michel-Denis Potvin, "Reporter"
* Cindy Demontigny, "Reporter"
* Mélanie Riendeau, "Entertainment"

Transmitters

All of the following transmitters are located in Quebec.

External links

* [http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ottawa/index.shtml Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=30&historyID=16 Canadian Communications Foundation - CBOFT History]
*RecnetCanada|CBOFT