CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan area across the international border in the United States, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of territorial programming rights. It is carried on American cable television systems as far south as Sandusky, Ohio and as far north as Flint. CBET's studios are l...
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CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan area across the international border in the United States, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of territorial programming rights. It is carried on American cable television systems as far south as Sandusky, Ohio and as far north as Flint. CBET's studios are located in Windsor, with its transmitter located in McGregor, Ontario.
Windsor's first television station originally signed on the air September 16, 1954 at 2:50 p.m. as CKLW-TV, owned by the Western Ontario Broadcasting Company, Ltd., along with CKLW radio (AM 800 and FM 93.9, now CIDR-FM). Channel 9 was an affiliate of the CBC, though it also maintained a secondary affiliation with DuMont (shared with Detroit's WJBK-TV) until that network's demise in 1956.
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