CBOFT-DT

CBOFT-DT, virtual channel 9.1 (UHF channel 33), is a Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated television station located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by the Société Radio-Canada arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as part of a twinstick with CBC Television station CBOT-DT (channel 4) and both stations share studios at the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre on Sparks Street in Downtown Ottawa, alongside the main corporate offices of the CBC, and its transmitter on the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Chelsea, Quebec, north of Gatineau.

The station serves Franco-Ontarians in Eastern Ontario and the Québécois in the Outaouais region of Quebec. This station can also be seen on Rogers Cable channel 5 and digital channel 601 and in high definition on digital channel 602.

History

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

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