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CBVT-DT

Ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Quebec City

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ2931058
Source-derived summary

CBVT-DT (channel 11), branded as ICI Québec, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). CBVT-DT's studios are located on Rue Saint-Jean and Aut Dufferin Montmorency in the Quebec City borough of La Cité-Limoilou, and its transmitter is located on Avenue de la Montagne/Dumont Belair Ouest in Val-Bélair.

History

The station, built and signed on by Radio-Canada itself, first aired on September 3, 1964. Quebec City's previous Radio-Canada affiliate CFCM-TV became an independent station for a few years before becoming one of the co-founders of TVA in 1971.

The station moved into new studios in 2004, uniting all of CBC/Radio-Canada's staff in Quebec City.

Programming

For the network, the station produces La semaine verte, an hour-long weekly newsmagazine about agriculture and rural life, and Second regard, a half-hour program exploring religion and spirituality.

For local programming, an evening newscast under the title Le Téléjournal/Québec, airs weekdays at 6 p.m.; a weekday noon newscast, Le Téléjournal midi/Québec et Est du Québec, is shared with Radio-Canada's group of stations in Eastern Quebec.

Technical information

Subchannel

After the analog-to-digital conversion which took place on August 31, 2011, CBVT-DT stayed at its pre-transition position on channel 12, allowing CBVE-TV, a repeater of CBMT-DT Montreal, to move from channel 5 to channel 11. Because of potential interference from CFCF-DT in Montreal (which moved its digital signal to channel 12 on the transition date) and reception problems, CBVT-DT moved to channel 25 in December 2011.

Editorial summary

“CBVT-DT” enters the record as ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Quebec City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what CBVT-DT, Radio-Canada and Télé can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1971, 2004, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-09-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around CBVT-DT, Radio-Canada and Télé.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“CBVT-DT” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, CBVT-DT, Radio-Canada and Télé provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2931058. Authority coordinates are 46.822, -71.495. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1971, 2004 and 2011.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from CBVT-DT” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.