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Call signs in Canada are official identifiers issued to the country's radio and television stations. Assignments for broadcasting stations are made by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), while amateur stations receive their call signs from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (previously Industry Canada).
Canadian broadcast stations are assigned a three-, four-, or five-letter base call sign (not including the "-FM", "-TV" or "-DT" suffix) beginning with CB, CF, CH, CI, CJ, CK, VF, or VO. The "CB" series calls are assigned to Chile by the ITU, but Canada makes de facto use of this series anyway for stations belonging to, but not exclusively ...
This is a list of television stations in Canada licensed to broadcast by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), all having call signs which begin with the letter C. A blue background indicates a station that continues to broadcast exclusively via an analogue transmission in lieu of a conversion to digital ...
Call sign titled. Canadian call signs are in the CB range (for CBC stations) and the CF, CH–CK range for almost all other stations. FM and television stations are suffixed -FM and -DT (analogue TV used -TV), except for CBC stations in the analogue era; boosters are suffixed by number.
Call signs almost always have one of the following forms: PNS, 1×1 call sign usually for a special event, the prefix is always a single letter character, as is the suffix. Can only be assigned in the B, F, G, I, K, M, N, R, or W prefix range. (See discussion on the D9K call sign issued by Korea above – 'when 2 characters are needed'.)
Canadian Eagle Aviation: HAIDA Canada CFC Canadian Forces: CANFORCE Canada BZD Canadian Global Air Ambulance: BLIZZARD Canada ICAO Code and callsign no longer allocated CDN Canadian Helicopters: CANADIAN Canada TKR Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre: TANKER Canada ICAO Code and callsign no longer allocated XNC Canadian National ...
Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).
In South America call signs have been a traditional way of identifying radio and TV stations. Some stations still broadcast their call signs a few times a day, but this practice is becoming very rare. Argentinian broadcast call signs consist of two or three letters followed by multiple numbers, the second and third letters indicating region.