CBET-DT

CBET-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is a CBC Television owned-and-operated television station located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBET maintains studio facilities located on Riverside Drive West and Crawford Avenue (near the Detroit River) in Downtown Windsor, and its transmitter near Concession Road 12 in Essex. The station is also available on Cogeco Cable channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 702.

Its signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area across the international border in the United States. It has long been counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of territorial programming rights. It is carried on American cable systems as far south as Sandusky, Ohio and in many parts of Michigan.

History

As CKLW-TV

By 1953, CBC Television's distribution throughout Canada was growing. The Windsor market, however, was already being served by the Detroit stations across the border. That same year, Western Ontario Broadcasting Company, Ltd., parent company of CKLW radio (800 AM and 93.9 FM, now CIDR-FM), applied for a television license for Windsor. The city's Chamber of Commerce approved the deal, feeling that the market was lacking in a television station that was distinctly Canadian in nature.