CBMT is the CBC's television station in Montreal, Quebec. Programming on CBMT is seen on a network of more than 50 rebroadcasters throughout Quebec and in three communities in northern Manitoba: Brochet, Poplar River, and Shamattawa.
CBMT was Montreal's second television station; previously English and French-language programs had shared time on CBFT, channel 2, which was Canada's first broadcast television station.
By the end of 1953, Canada had...
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CBMT is the CBC's television station in Montreal, Quebec. Programming on CBMT is seen on a network of more than 50 rebroadcasters throughout Quebec and in three communities in northern Manitoba: Brochet, Poplar River, and Shamattawa.
CBMT was Montreal's second television station; previously English and French-language programs had shared time on CBFT, channel 2, which was Canada's first broadcast television station.
By the end of 1953, Canada had about a dozen television stations either licensed or under construction, and American competition was about to arrive in Montreal with the construction of WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont (transmitting from the top of Mount Mansfield), and WIRI-TV in Plattsburgh, New York (now known as WPTZ-TV).
The CBC organization decided that it was imperative to stop time-sharing in English and in French, so CBMT was included in the network's expansion plans for television.
This station was branded in the late 1970s and early 1980s as Montreal 6, becoming...
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