page_title: CIVT-DT
section_title: Station details
hierarchical_section_title: CIVT-DT / Station details
caption_attribution_description: English: 750 Burrard Street, Downtown Vancouver.
context_page_description: CIVT-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 32, is a CTV owned-and-operated television station licensed to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The station is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., as part of a twinstick with Victoria-based CTV 2 station CIVI-DT, channel 53. CIVT-DT's studios are located at 969 Robson Street at the intersection of Robson Street and Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, which also houses the British Columbia operations of the CTV network itself, including the CTV News Vancouver bureau. The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
  On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable channels 9 and 210 in the Vancouver area. On satellite, it is carried on Bell Satellite TV channel 1151, and Shaw Direct channel 214.
context_section_description: CIVT is the only full-fledged CTV station in British Columbia, as well as in the Pacific Time Zone. However, the station only maintains one terrestrial transmitter. Despite transmitting at an effective radiated power of 33 kW, it only reaches Vancouver, Victoria, and neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington. Accordingly, the station relies exclusively on cable and satellite distribution to reach the rest of British Columbia, making it something of a weak link in the CTV network. In the Mountain Time Zone portion of the province, CIVT is either carried on a higher channel number or is unavailable altogether. Calgary sister station CFCN is the default CTV station for southeastern British Columbia and has long operated rebroadcasters in this region, while Edmonton sister CFRN serves as the default CTV station for the northeastern part of the province. Until 2012, when CBC Television owned-and-operated station CBUT-DT (channel 2) shut down its rebroadcasters due to funding reductions, CIVT was the only Vancouver station out of Canada's three major television networks to be cable- and satellite-exclusive outside of the city.
  CIVT was the only CTV network station to broadcast its primary signal on UHF prior to the digital transition. Although Industry Canada technically requires Canadian television stations to identify themselves over-the-air by their call letters, this rule is rarely enforced, and most Canadian stations identify themselves by their brand name rather than their callsign. On-air, CIVT identifies itself simply as "CTV". Where a channel reference is warranted, it uses "Channel 9", its primary cable channel number on most cable systems in southwestern British Columbia; during the VTV era, a white "9" in a red circle was frequently used on outside broadcast vehicles and in graphics alongside the main logo.
caption: CIVT's 750 Burrard Street studios
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