CBOH-DT
| Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Canada | |
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| Channels | Digital: Digital: 3 (VHF) Virtual: Virtual: 10 (PSIP) |
| Branding | CBC Television (general) CBC Newsreel (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Canada's Public Broadcaster |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English, Obijwe |
| Affiliations | CBC Television (O&O) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBOH Foundation) |
| Sister stations | CHEX-DT-2, CIII-DT, CHEX-DT, CKWS-DT |
| History | |
| First air date | February 17, 1966 (60 years ago) |
| Former channel number(s) |
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| Call sign meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Oshawa |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 0.185 kW |
| HAAT | 133.5 m (438 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°57′15″N 78°48′23″W / 43.95417°N 78.80639°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
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CBOH-DT, virtual channel 5 (VHF digital channel 20), is a CBC Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The station's master control facilities and production studios are located on Simcoe Street (just north of King Street) within Downtown Oshawa and its transmitter is located on Enfield Road in Clarington.
CBOH was licensed as a rebroadcaster of CBLT-DT in Toronto, even though it operated as a semi-satellite with its own associated network of repeaters, as it aired separate commercials, a separate children's show, and (until the 1990s) its own local news broadcasts. On cable, the station was available on Shaw Cable channel 4 and Bell Fibre on channel 9.
While the CBC originally planned to discontinue CBOH's over the air feed on August 31, 2011 (as the corporation did not originally plan to convert rebroadcasters in mandatory transition markets like Oshawa to digital), the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted the CBC permission to allow transmitters in selected mandatory markets, including Oshawa, to still operate an analogue feed until August 31, 2012. On July 17, 2012, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to delete CBOH from CBLT's licence, effective August 1, 2012. On July 31, 2012, CBOH was shut down after more than 41 years on the air.
Since the closure of CBOH, cable and satellite providers have piped in CBLT (which took over CBOH's slots) and other CBC outlets for their customers. Due to the high penetration of cable and satellite in Oshawa and elsewhere within central and eastern Ontario, few viewers actually lost complete access to CBC Television programming.
History
On April 28, 2010, the CRTC granted a license request by the CBC to relaunch CBKST as CBST-TV, a separate station which would once again produce a distinct local newscast from CBKT-TV.
