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CBLT is a television station serving Toronto, Ontario and outlying regions and is an owned and...

CBLT is a television station serving Toronto, Ontario and outlying regions and is an owned and operated station of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is the oldest television station in Ontario, and the second oldest in Canada after its Radio-Canada sister station CBFT in Montreal. It is also the flagship television station of the CBC Television network, and houses the studios for most of CBC's programs, news, and shares studios with CBC Newsworld. CBLT launched on September 8, 1952, on channel 9. The station's first broadcast was prefaced by the inadvertent incorrect display of the CBC's national network logo. Conflicting accounts say it was either upside-down or backwards, due to incorrect insertion of the slide. No such error was made two days earlier with CBFT in Montreal. On January 19, 1953, a microwave link between Buffalo, New York and Toronto was activated, allowing live airing of programs from the American television networks. A few months later, on May 14, 1953 CBC Television stations in Montreal and Ottawa became the first connections within the Trans-Canada Microwave system. In 1956 the station moved to Channel 6 and increased its effective radiated power from