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{{Short description|Television station in Charlottetown}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = CBCT-DT
| logo                   = CBCT-DT 2017.svg
| logo_size              = 220px
| branding               = {{ubl|CBC Prince Edward Island (general)|''CBC Compass'' (newscasts)}}
| analog                 =
| digital                = 13 ([[VHF]])
| virtual                = 13
| translators            = ''see {{section link||Transmitters}}''
| affiliations           = [[CBC Television]]
| network                = 
| airdate                = {{Start date and age|1956|07|01|p=y}}
| location               = [[Charlottetown]], Prince Edward Island
| country                = Canada
| callsign_meaning       = CBC Charlottetown Television
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|CFCY-TV (1956–1968)|CBCT (1968–2011)}}
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analogue:''' 13 (VHF, 1956–2011)
| owner                  = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]
| licensee               = 
| sister_stations        = [[CBCT-FM]], [[CBCH-FM]], [[CBAFT-DT]]
| former_affiliations    = 
| erp                    = 13.03 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|268.8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| coordinates            = {{coord|46|12|44|N|63|20|30|W|type:landmark}}
| licensing_authority    = [[CRTC]]
| website                = {{URL|http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island|CBC Prince Edward Island}} 
}}
'''CBCT-DT''' (channel 13) is a [[CBC Television]] station in [[Charlottetown]], Prince Edward Island, Canada. The station's studios are located on University Avenue in Charlottetown, and its transmitter is located on [[Prince Edward Island Route 1|Route 1]] near [[Bonshaw, Prince Edward Island|Bonshaw]]. It is the only full-fledged television station based in Prince Edward Island; all other television service in the province is provided by repeaters of stations from [[New Brunswick]].

==History==
CBCT first went on the air on July 1, 1956, as CFCY-TV, under the ownership of the Rogers family and their company, Island Broadcasting, along with [[CFCY-FM|CFCY radio]] (AM 630, now FM 95.1). Family patriarch Col. [[Keith Rogers]] had begun laying the groundwork to bring television to PEI earlier in the decade, but died two years before channel 13 went on the air. His widow Flora Rogers, daughter Betty Rogers Large and son-in-law Bob Large took over his dream and signed on the station as a [[Canada Day|Dominion Day]] present to Prince Edward Island.

By the late 1960s, it was obvious that PEI's population was too small to warrant a second full-fledged television station. With this in mind, [[CJCH-TV]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] made plans to set up a [[rebroadcaster]] in hopes of bringing [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] to the island. The Rogers feared that they would not be able to compete with CTV, and sold CFCY-TV to the CBC in 1968. The CBC closed on the purchase on August 1 of that year and changed its calls to CBCT. As it turned out, CBCT would remain the only television station in the province until [[CKCW-TV]] in [[Moncton]] set up a rebroadcaster in Charlottetown in 1972.

==News programming==
The flagship local newscast, ''[[CBC News: Compass]]'', is anchored by Louise Martin, and enjoys very high ratings throughout Prince Edward Island. As the only PEI-specific newscast in the province, it consistently outdraws CTV's local newscasts in the ratings by a wide margin. The program airs each weeknight from 6 to 7 p.m.

In addition to ''Compass'', CBCT also co-produces and simulcasts pan-regional newscasts for the Maritimes. ''Atlantic Tonight at 11'' (Sunday–Friday) and ''Atlantic Tonight Saturday'' (7 p.m., Saturday) are broadcast from [[CBHT-DT]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] and are also seen on [[CBAT-DT]] in [[Fredericton]] and [[CBNT-DT]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]].

==Transmitters==
CBCT had two analogue rebroadcasters located in [[St. Edward, Prince Edward Island|St. Edward]] and [[Elmira, Prince Edward Island|Elmira]].

Due to federal funding reductions to the CBC, in April 2012, the CBC responded with substantial budget cuts, which included shutting down  CBC's and Radio-Canada's remaining analogue transmitters on July 31, 2012.<ref>[http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/2012/04/04/ Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan]</ref>  However, due to the extremely high penetration of cable and satellite in the province, actual loss of access to CBC programming in the province was limited.

===Former transmitters=== 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[City of license]]<ref name=tvf1997>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=TV & Cable Factbook |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |publisher=Warren Communications News |edition=56th |page=B-143 |date=1988 }}</ref>
! [[Callsigns in North America|Callsign]]
! Channel 
! [[Effective radiated power|ERP]]
|-
| CBCT-1
| [[St. Edward, Prince Edward Island|St. Edward]] 
| 4 
| 258 watts 
|- 
| CBCT-2 
| [[Elmira, Prince Edward Island|Elmira]] 
| 11
| 462 [[watt]]s 
|- 
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island CBC Prince Edward Island]
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/prince-edward-island/CBCT-DT CBCT-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CBCT}}

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[[Category:Television stations in Prince Edward Island|BCT-DT]]
[[Category:Mass media in Charlottetown]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1956]]
[[Category:1956 establishments in Prince Edward Island]]