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CBRT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Calgary, Alberta. It...

CBRT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Calgary, Alberta. It broadcasts national CBC programming, as well as a local edition of CBC News at Six which is hosted by Doug Dirks. Since he joined the show, it has steadily improved in the ratings. CBC Newsworld previously had a production centre at CBRT. It produced Newsworld Today, Your Call, and a Newsworld edition of Canada Now, which was hosted by Kathleen Petty. It was shut down in 2008. CBRT went on the air at 6 pm on September 1, 1975, as previous CBC affiliate CFAC (now CICT) became independent. The first supper-hour newscast on CBRT was called Evening Eye-Opener, later The CBC Evening News. The original late-night news was called Night Final. In 1991, the CBC cancelled the local newscast on CBRT and began producing a provincial newscast out of CBXT in Edmonton. Ratings plummeted, and in the mid-1990s Calgary Tonight was launched as a new local hour-long newscast. As with the rest of the CBC's owned-and-operated stations, the local supper-hour news was cut to 30 minutes in 2000 and became part of the hour-long Canada Now. By late 2006, however, CBC reinstated the local news programs, and now airs