I used to watch CBC-Montreal on the old seven foot C-Band satellite dish in Wyoming in the 1990’s until they went digital in 2001. Lost the Canadiens and Hockey Night In Canada.
I got this station on Channel 6 via E Skip in California....i got a QSL from the station...in 1990 i got it on Anik 1 Satellite on C Band....now with the Internet i get this everyday now....CBC tv was always a favorite....I like the one on Channel 2 in Vancouver...i have QSL cards from that station too when I was in California...CBMT was Montreal and CBUT was Vancouver... sometimes it was Scrambled for some reason...on C Band...?..TVDX was fun in those days..now the Digital change over messed it up...
This sign off is extremely incredible, just as good as the sign on sequence. In fact, along with CBOT in 1990 and CBLT in the late-1990s and early-2000s, CBMT has one of the best sign off sequence from the CBC Television network. As for the year this was from, it's very likely that this was aired in 1990 or 1991. Amazing find on that. I would be really happy if you have the sign off for CFCF with the national anthem.
Interesting how many UHF transmitters there were. UHF channels went pretty much unused in Saskatchewan, even though CBC and CTV stations had multiple rebroadcast transmitters.
Did she say Northern MANITOBA on a station that is based in Montreal (CBMT channel 6)? The people at CBWT (CBC Winnipeg) must be concerned about CBMT interfering with their area!
Ironically CBC Manitoba also did this with transmitters serving Northern Ontario and Saskatchewan. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SVALl-pIyZI.html
Probably easier to get a program feed from Montreal than from Winnipeg. Funny thing is, those three Manitoba transmitters were still listed in CBWT's own sign-on/sign-off messages from around that same time. Realistically, those communities might have been better served by plugging in to the CBC North feed, although perhaps they were too far away from St. John or Vancouver for that to be feasible.
Northwestern Ontario and Saskatchewan are directly adjacent to Manitoba, though. Quebec isn't. LOL! Interestingly, CBC's English radio transmitters in that same area take their programming from Thunder Bay, not Winnipeg. The French transmitters in Kenora, Dryden and Fort Frances are fed from Winnipeg; elsewhere in northern Ontario (including Thunder Bay) they're fed from CBON in Sudbury. CBLT Toronto also had a network of repeaters in some north-central Ontario communities between Thunder Bay and the Sault (Wawa, White River, Hornepayne, Beardmore, Geraldton and Manitouwadge). Why Thunder Bay's CKPR or the MCTV-CBC network (CKNC Sudbury et al) didn't try to serve those communities with repeaters is beyond me. Of course, the MCTV-CBC stations did all also become CBLT repeaters before they shut down with the digital transition.
@@christopherbubb2890 I suppose in the case of MCTV-CBC, they probably didn't have the budget necessary to operate more transmitters than possible for a local operation.
Ya know, it's nice to see the sign-off of CBMT in 1990. I'm still wondering what the music track playing in the background in the signoff is, though.....
"CBMT 6 in montreal-qubec canada is signing-off for this wednesday january 6,1993 (1965 all over again) remember cbc newsworld in the morning goodnight".
They would have had to update it to at least change the name of the street on which they were located from Dorchester Blvd. to Boulevard Rene-Levesque, as it was renamed in Levesque's honor after his death in 1987.
