Television
Vancouver is the second largest television production centre in North America after Los Angeles.
Global BC is the most popular evening newscast in the city by a wide margin, though CTV British Columbia, currently a distant second in the ratings, has aggressively been trying to increase its market share — including the recent purchase 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.
| DTV channel | Cable channel | Call sign | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 (2.1) | 3 | CBUT-DT | CBC | |
| 49 (6.1) | 6 | CHEK-DT | Independent | Licensed to Victoria, also serves Vancouver. |
| 22 (8.1) | 11 | CHAN-DT | Global | |
| 33 (10.1) | 13 | CKVU-DT | Citytv | |
| 35 (12.1) | 30 | KVOS-TV | Me-TV | Licensed to Bellingham, Washington. Targeted at Canadian audiences. Maintains sales office in Vancouver. |
| 17 (17.1) | 12 | CIVI-DT-2 | CTV Two | Rebroadcaster of CIVI-DT Victoria |
| 26 (26.1) | 7 | CBUFT-DT | Radio-Canada | Vancouver's only French language station. |
| 32 (32.1) | 9 | CIVT-DT | CTV | |
| 20 (42.1) | 8 | CHNM-DT | Omni | |
| 47 (66.1) | 10 | CHNU-DT | Joytv | |
| 4 | Shaw TV Vancouver | Community channel | ||
| 5 | Knowledge | Education channel | ||
| 116 | Shaw Multicultural Channel | Multicultural community channel | ||
| 520 | Talentvision Vancouver | Mostly Mandarin, contains some Korean and Vietnamese | ||
| 517 | Fairchild TV Vancouver | Mostly Cantonese, contains some Mandarin |
Vancouver and most of the Lower Mainland are served by Shaw Cable. Delta is also served by Delta Cable. Telus TV, and IPTV service is available 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 ShopNBC on subchannel 24.1 and Estrella TV on 24.2; and K24IC-D (channel 28.1), a rebroadcaster of PBS station KBTC-TV Tacoma. In addition, TheCoolTV, offered on KVOS subchannel 12.2, is also not available on cable.
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). Many of these stations could be seen over the air in Vancouver, though a rooftop or outdoor antenna may be required.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)