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{{Short description|Television station in Yellowknife}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = CFYK-DT
| city                   =
| logo                   = Current Logo for CBC North.png
| logo_size              = 240px
| branding               = {{ubl|[[CBC North]] (general)|''CBC Northbeat'' (English newscast)|''CBC Igalaaq'' (Inuktitut newscast)}}
| digital                = 8 ([[VHF]])
| virtual                = 8
| affiliations           = [[CBC Television]]
| network                = 
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1967|p=y}}
| location               = [[Yellowknife]], Northwest Territories
| country                = Canada
| callsign_meaning       = Canada's Finest Yellowknife
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 8 (VHF, 1967–2012)
| owner                  = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]
| licensee               = 
| sister_stations        = [[CFYK-FM]], [[CFWH-FM]], [[CFFB (AM)|CFFB]]
| former_affiliations    = 
| erp                    = 2.4 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|62.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| coordinates            = {{coord|62|26|50|N|114|21|37|W|type:landmark}}
| licensing_authority    = [[CRTC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north|CBC North}} 
}}
{{geoGroup}}
'''CFYK-DT''' (channel 8) is a [[CBC Television]] station in [[Yellowknife]], Northwest Territories, Canada. It is the [[flagship station]] of the [[CBC North]] television service.

==History==
The station signed on in 1967 as the first television station in northern Canada, and the first station to be part of the CBC's [[Frontier Coverage Package]]; satellite delivery of [[colour television]] began in 1973.

Prior to 2011, the station was licensed by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) as a "radiocommunication distribution undertaking", meaning that for regulatory purposes it was not a true television station, but merely a transmitter that redistributed CBC North from satellite. The CRTC formally relicensed it as a full television station in February 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-107.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-107|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|accessdate=March 14, 2025}}</ref>

CFYK-TV switched to digital broadcasting, [[flash cut]]ting on VHF 8 (originally VHF 7) with [[virtual channel]] 8.1 on August 1, 2012.<ref>https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/DocWebBroker/OpenDocument.aspx?AppNo=201205097 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref> However, the CBC was not obligated to convert or close down this station, as no part of the Northwest Territories is designated as a mandatory market for [[Digital terrestrial television in Canada|digital conversion]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-406.htm|title=Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-406|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|date=June 6, 2009|accessdate=March 14, 2011}}</ref>

==Transmitters==
CFYK had 9 [[analog television|analog]] VHF television rebroadcasters in the Northwest Territories. Additionally, [[CFWH-TV]] in [[Whitehorse]] and [[CFFB-TV]] in [[Iqaluit]], though operating as semi-satellites of CFYK with their own networks of rebroadcasters, were actually licensed as rebroadcasters of CFYK.

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 analog transmitters on July 31, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/2012/04/04/|title=Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=April 4, 2012|accessdate=March 14, 2025}}</ref> None of CBC or Radio-Canada's rebroadcasters were converted to digital. The only known translators in Arctic Canada that are known to still be in service are owned and operated by local community groups or local governments. However, few residents actually lost access to CBC programming due to the extremely high penetration of cable and satellite, which is all but essential for acceptable television in much of the Arctic.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Former transmitters of CFYK-DT
! scope = "col" | Callsign 
! scope = "col" | City of license 
! scope = "col" | Channel 
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEX-TV
| [[Aklavik]] 
| 5
|-
! scope = "row" | CBETT
| [[Deline]] 
| 9
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEST
| [[Fort Good Hope]] 
| 9
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEBT-3
| [[Fort Providence]] 
| 13
|-
! scope = "row" | CBEV-TV 
| [[Fort Resolution]] 
| 9
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEGT
| [[Fort Simpson]] 
| 9
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEAT{{efn|Began broadcasting as CBTE-TV-4 on June 27, 1969.}}
| [[Fort Smith, Northwest Territories|Fort Smith]] 
| 8 
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEBT-1
| [[Hay River, Northwest Territories|Hay River]] 
| 7
|- 
! scope = "row" | CBEDT
| [[Norman Wells]] 
| 9
|- 
! scope = "row" | CFYK-TV-1
| [[Rae-Edzo]]
| 10
|}
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==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north CBC North]
*[https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/northwest-territories/cfyk-tv/CFYK-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CFYK-DT}}

{{Northwest Territories TV}}
{{CBC TV stations}}

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[[Category:1967 establishments in the Northwest Territories]]
[[Category:CBC Television stations|FYK-DT]]
[[Category:Mass media in Yellowknife]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1967]]
[[Category:Television stations in the Northwest Territories|FYK-DT]]