CBOFT-DT (channel 9) is anIci Radio-Canada Télé station inOttawa, Ontario, Canada, serving theNational Capital Region. It is part of atwinstick withCBC Television stationCBOT-DT (channel 4). The two stations share studios at theCBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre onQueen Street (across from theConfederation Linelight rail station) inDowntown Ottawa, alongside the main corporate offices of the CBC; CBOFT-DT's transmitter is located on theRyan Tower atCamp Fortune inChelsea, Quebec, north ofGatineau.

CBOFT-DT

Ottawa, Ontario Gatineau, Quebec Canada
Channels	Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 9
Branding	ICI Ottawa–Gatineau
Programming
Affiliations	Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Ownership
Owner	Société Radio-Canada
Sister stations	CBOT-DT,CBOF-FM,CBOX-FM
History
First air date	June 24, 1955 (69 years ago) (1955-06-24)
Former call signs	CBOFT (1955–2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analogue: 9 (VHF, 1955–2011) Digital: 22 (UHF, 200?–2011), 9 (VHF, 2011–2013)
Former affiliations	TVA (secondary, 1977–1978)
Call sign meaning	CBC OttawaFrançais Télévision
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	3.5 kW
HAAT	424.9 m (1,394 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°30′9″N75°50′59″W / 45.50250°N 75.84972°W /45.50250; -75.84972
Links
Website	ICI Ottawa–Gatineau

CBOFT first signed on the air on June 24, 1955, as the firstFrench-language television station in Ontario. Previously,CBOT aired both CBC and Radio-Canada programs.

For a brief time during 1977 and 1978, untilCHOT opened, CBOFT also carried someTVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate,CFVO-TV (whose channel 30 frequency is now occupied byCIVO) went bankrupt.

Due to cost-cutting measures at the CBC in the early 1990s, local programming onToronto'sCBLFT and its rebroadcasters, as well as CBLFT semi-satelliteCBEFT inWindsor was discontinued in 1991. All Radio-Canada transmitters in Ontario (except thenorthwest, which was served byCBWFT inWinnipeg) were reclassified asrebroadcasters of CBOFT, under the name "Radio-Canada Ontario-Outaouais". The station produced two distinct newscasts through the 1990s and 2000s, one for the Ottawa region and one for the remainder of Ontario.

In 2010, the CBC applied to the CRTC to have CBLFT relicensed as a separate station, which would again produce a separate newscast for broadcast in most of the province outside of CBOFT's market.^[1] The application was approved on April 28, 2010, leading to CBLFT resuming newscast production from Toronto, and most of the network's transmitters in Ontario were reassigned to CBLFT's license. Following this split in the network, CBOFT and its Quebec transmitters became "Radio-Canada Ottawa-Gatineau", while most other Ontario transmitters became "Radio-Canada Ontario".

Prior to the arrival of theOttawa SenatorsNHL team, the station would broadcast theMontreal Canadiens games on Saturday nights, while the English counterpart, CBOT, would carry theToronto Maple Leafs games during the SaturdayHockey Night in Canada slot.

• Pierre Dufault, sports journalist and political correspondent^[2]

On August 31, 2011, when Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatorymarketstransitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts,^[4] the station's digital signal relocated fromUHF channel 22 toVHF channel 9. Due to reception issues on channel 9, the station was granted permission to move to UHF channel 33.^[5]

CBOFT operated three analog television rebroadcasters all located inQuebec in the following communities:

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.^[6] None of CBC or Radio-Canada's rebroadcasters were converted to digital.

• ICI Ottawa–Gatineau(in French)
• CBOFT-DT History -Canadian Communications Foundation
• CBOFT in the REC Canadian station database