History
The station was launched on October 17, 1971. Saskatoon's original station, CFQC-TV, which had begun airing a combined CBC/CTV schedule in 1969, switched exclusively to CTV with CBKST's launch. The station's studios were originally located on the fifth floor of CN Towers, an office block located above Saskatoon's Midtown Plaza shopping centre. In August 1976 it was temporarily knocked off the air for several days when a several-ton chunk of concrete fell off the side of CN Towers and went crashing into the mall below, killing one person.
For several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, CBKST used the brand "Saskatoon 11/12" on-air and in print, reflecting the station's respective over-the-air and cable positions in the city. At the time, the CBKST logo consisted of the name Saskatoon with the station's channel numbers contained within the O's.
In December 1990, nationwide cutbacks at the CBC resulted in many staff being laid off and its supper hour newscast cancelled. In the early 2000s, the station moved into a new storefront studio facility, taking over the heritage Hutchinson Building, a few blocks away, on 2nd Avenue South, which it shares with its Radio-Canada counterpart, CBKFT.
In 2002, CBC purchased former Prince Albert, Saskatchewan affiliate CKBI from previous owner Bell Globemedia (parent company of CTV), turning CKBI into a rebroadcaster of CBKST.
CBKST also has ties to the CBC's longest-running import, Coronation Street — according to the 2002 edition of the Guinness Book of Records, CBKST acquired 1,144 episodes of the British soap from Granada Television on May 31, 1971, the largest number of TV shows ever purchased in one transaction.
On May 16, 2008, CBKST was given approval by the CRTC to delete its transmitters in Big River and Tisdale Viewers that have been served by the two stations are served by two other CBKST transmitters, CBKST-TV-3 Leoville and CBKST-TV-11 Greenwater Lake.
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