KBC Television

KBC Television (also known as KBC TV) is a Keithlandian English language broadcast television network that is owned by the Keithlandian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations in 1951. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Keithlande Télé and its Portuguese-language counterpart is Televisão Nacional Keithlandiana.
Headquartered at the Keithlandian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, KBC Television is available throughout Keithland on over-the-air television stations as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the KBC's programming is produced in Keithland. Although KBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to KBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, as well as educational television systems funded by provincial governments, are commercial-free.
==History and overview==
The Montblanc and Hamilton stations were both founded in 1951. The rollout was followed by Wotawah and Vancouver in 1953.
KBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and children's programming; in most cases, feeding the same programming at the same local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late".
On October 9, 2006 at 6:00 a.m., the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most KBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.). Instead of the infomercials aired by most commercial stations, or a simulcast of KBC News Network in the style of NBS One's nightly simulcast of the NBS News Channel, the KBC uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, movies and other programming from the KBC library. Its French and Portuguese counterparts, Ici Radio-Keithlande Télé and TNK, still signs off every night.
While historically there has been room for regional differences in the schedule, as there is today (see "Stations", below), for KBC-owned stations, funding has decreased to the point that most of these stations only broadcast 30 to 90 minutes a day of locally produced newscasts, and no other local programming.
Until 1998, the network carried a variety of Sierran programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Keithlandian broadcasters such as KTN and Global. Since then, it has restricted itself to Keithlandian programs, a handful of Nashlandian/Michillian/Reitannan programs, and a few Sierran movies and off-network repeats. Since this change, the KBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995, although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years. In the 2007-08 season, popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border helped the network achieve its strongest ratings performance in over half a decade.
In 2002, KBC Television and KBC News Network became the first broadcasters in Keithland that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming. On those networks, only outside commercials need not be captioned, though a bare majority of them are aired with captions. All shows, bumpers, billboards, promos and other internal programming must be captioned. The requirement stems from a human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug, eventually settled in 2002.
Under the KBC's current arrangement with Rogers Communications for National Hockey League broadcast rights, Hockey Night in Keithland broadcasts on KBC-owned stations and affiliates are not technically aired over the KBC Television network, but over a separate KRTC-licensed part-time network operated by Rogers. This was required by the KRTC as Rogers exercises editorial control and sells all advertising time during the HNIK broadcasts, even though the KBC bug and promos for other KBC Television programs appear throughout HNIK.
==Stations==
===KBC O&Os===
All the stations listed in the table below, minus the ones that KBC bought after their launch, were all built by KBC.
Currently the network has fifteen O&Os in larger city centers as well as the capital of the Northern Territories.
The callsigns are inherited from the KBC Radio network, as KBC-owned stations follow a three-letter pattern with the second letter being the letter K (legal requirement).
City of license 	Station	ChannelTV (RF)	Year of affiliation	Owned since
[Calgary] 	CKI-DT 	9.1 (21) 	1975 	1975
Ellington, Armoria 	CKE-DT 	5.1 (42) 	1961 	1961
Vancouver, Nashlandian Columbia	CKU-DT 	2.1 (43) 	1953 	1953
[Winnipeg] 	CKJ-DT 	6.1 (27) 	1954 	1954
[Fredericton] 	CKF-DT 	4.1 (31) 	1954 	1994
[St. John's] 	CKN-DT 	8.1 (8) 	1964 	1964
Grayknife, Northern Territories	CKY-DT 	8.1 (8) 	1967 	1967
Halifax, Nova Saria 	CKH-DT 	3.1 (39) 	1954 	1954
Salisbury, [Ontario] 	CKS-DT 	4.1 (25) 	1953 	1953
Toronto, [Ontario] 	CKL-DT 	5.1 (20) 	1949 	1949
Wotawah, NFC 	CKK-DT 	3.1 (32) 	1952 	1952
[Windsor], [Ontario] 	CKA-DT 	9.1 (9) 	1954 	1975
[Charlottetown] 	CKC-DT 	13.1 (13) 	1956 	1968
Montblanc, [Quebec] 	CKM-DT 	6.1 (21) 	1954 	1954
[Regina] 	CKR-DT 	9.1 (9) 	1959 	1969
===Former O&Os===
===Affiliates===
The number of KBC affiliates has been decreasing, over the years, KBC has held pressure with some of the owners of the stations and has lost licenses in favor of expanding the commercial networks. Only two affiliates remain.
===Former affiliates===
===Gallery===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPjo6tUNvyg - KBC sign off video used until 2006.