CBLT-TV

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Template:Infobox Broadcast CBLT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Toronto, Ontario. It is the oldest television station in Toronto, and the second oldest in Canada after its SRC sister station CBFT in Montreal.

CBLT originally broadcast on Channel 9 until the late-1950s, when it moved to Channel 6. Then in 1972, it switched to its current VHF channel, Channel 5 in order to allow two new stations (in Paris and Deseronto) to use the frequency. It currently broadcasts from the CN Tower from studios at the CBC English network headquarters on Front Street. However, it originally broadcast from a series of smaller studios (which now house the National Ballet School) on Jarvis Street next to its transmitter.

CBLT has used a variety of on-air brands since its inception. From 1957 to 1972, it was known as Channel 6. Following its move to Channel 5 in 1972, it became known as "CBLT Five", later shortened to "CBLT/5". In the late 1970s it was known as "Toronto/5". During the 1980s it was known mainly as CBLT-TV, although it used a "CBC 5" logo. For a time in 1986 it branded as CBC Television Toronto/5.

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Rebroadcasters

CBLT serves much of Ontario through a network of rebroadcast transmitters, including all of Northeastern Ontario and most of Western Ontario with the exception of Windsor. The station only served Southern Ontario and a few rural Northern Ontario communities until 2003, when it took over the CBC affiliates of the MCTV twinstick.