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CBKST is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which...

CBKST is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which went on the air in 1971. CFQC, the previous Saskatoon CBC affiliate which began broadcasting a combined CBC/CTV schedule in 1969, switched exclusively to CTV in 1971 with the launch of CBKST. The station's studios were originally located on the fifth floor of CN Towers, an office block located above Saskatoon's Midtown Plaza shopping centre. In August 1976 it was temporarily knocked off the air for several days when a several-ton chunk of concrete fell off the side of CN Towers and went crashing into the mall below, killing one person. For several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, CBKST used the brand "Saskatoon 11/12" on-air and in print, reflecting the station's respective over-the-air and cable positions in the city. At the time, the CBKST logo consisted of the name Saskatoon with the station's channel numbers contained within the O's. In December 1990, nationwide cutbacks at the CBC resulted in many staff being laid off and its supper hour newscast cancelled. In the early 2000s, the station moved into a new storefront studio facility a few blocks away, on 2nd Avenue