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List of defunct CBC Television and Ici Radio-Canada Télé transmitters

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ19877152 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of former CBC Television/Ici Radio-Canada Télé transmitters across Canada that were used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Due to budget cuts, the CBC decommissioned its 620 over-the-air analogue television transmitters on July 31, 2012.

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“List of defunct CBC Television and Ici Radio-Canada Télé transmitters” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, defunct and Television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of defunct CBC Television and Ici Radio-Canada Télé transmitters” 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.