CBME

CBME-DT (channel 23) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, broadcasting the English-language service of CBC Television. It is owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation alongside Ici Radio-Canada Télé flagship CBFR (channel 6). Both stations share studios at Maison Radio-Canada on René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal, while CBME-DT's transmitter is located atop Mount Royal.
===History===
CBME first signed on the air on January 10, 1954, as Montreal's second television station; previously, English and French-language programs had shared time on CBFM, Canada's first television station. By the end of 1953, Canada had about a dozen television stations either licensed or under construction, and American competition was about to arrive in Montreal. The CBC decided that it was imperative to stop time-sharing in English and in French, so CBME was included in the network's expansion plans for television; upon its sign-on, CBME became the exclusive English-language CBC station for Montreal; CBFR, simultaneous to this, became an exclusive French-language station.
The station was branded in the late 1970s and early 1980s as "Montreal 23", becoming "CBC Television Montreal 23" by the mid-1980s, and "CBC Television Montreal" during the 1990s.
CBME transmits from the Mount Royal candelabra tower, in Mount Royal Park, overlooking the city of Montreal. As a result, channel 6 experiences severe multipath interference in parts of the city and South Shore.
It was also previously seen unscrambled on C-band satellite until the early-2000s, when it switched to a proprietary digital satellite signal. When the signal was sent unscrambled on the C-band, many American satellite viewers tuned into CBME for a variety of news, entertainment, and sports – particularly the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and Olympic Games television broadcasts, which gave a different perspective than the American broadcasts. That Canadian signal is still available, but it requires the purchase of a dedicated and expensive receiver, or a grey market subscription to a Canadian satellite service.
Due to several cutbacks over the years, master control for the station is now based at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto.
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