page_title: Media in Vancouver
section_title: Television
hierarchical_section_title: Media in Vancouver / Television
caption_attribution_description: English: Global BC's live van.
context_page_description: This is an overview of media in Vancouver, British Columbia.
context_section_description: Vancouver is the third-largest television market in Canada, and the largest in western Canada. It is also the second-largest television production centre in North America after Los Angeles.
  Global BC is the most popular evening newscast in the city, though CTV Vancouver, currently second in the ratings, has aggressively been trying to increase its market share — including the purchasing of a news helicopter known as 'Chopper 9'. In 2006, Global BC launched the Global One traffic helicopter for live traffic updates and breaking news. CBC also has local newscasts though they are far back in the ratings.
  Vancouver (and London, Ontario) were the first two cities in Canada to be served by cable television, in 1952.
  Vancouver and most of the Lower Mainland are served by Shaw Cable and by Delta Cable. Delta Cable is subsidiary of the Halifax-based telecommunications company EastLink. Telus TV also offers satellite television and IPTV service throughout most of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
  Other over-the-air television stations licensed to Bellingham that are available terrestrially in Vancouver but not carried on cable are KBCB (channel 24), an affiliate of Sonlife Broadcasting Network on subchannels 24.1, in high definition, and 24.2, in standard definition; and K24IC-D (channel 28.1), a rebroadcaster of PBS station KBTC-TV Tacoma.
  American network affiliates on Vancouver cable are from Seattle, Washington, including KOMO (ABC), KING (NBC), KIRO (CBS), KCTS (PBS), KSTW (The CW), and KCPQ (Fox).
caption: A Global BC microwave ENG van
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