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CFFB is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1230 AM.It operates a nested FM rebroadcasting transmitter, CFFB-FM-3 at 91.1 MHz in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [1] The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network, and serves as the regional network centre for Nunavut for the CBC North service.
The others are owned and operated by local community groups, with the exception of CIQA-FM Iqaluit, the Weatheradio Canada station operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada for the area, and CKIQ-FM and CKGC-FM in Iqaluit, the only commercial radio stations in Nunavut.
CBC Films is the film finance and production arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, focusing mostly on films by female, LGBT, indigenous, and diverse Canadian filmmakers. [3] Its initiatives include funding, pre-buys, and acquisitions for CBC broadcast and streaming platforms.
CFFB-TV was the television call sign for the former CBC's television transmitter in Iqaluit, Nunavut.It repeated the CBC North service, which consisted of the regular national CBC Television schedule in Mountain Time, with the addition of the northern news programs CBC Igalaaq in Inuktitut at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) and CBC Northbeat in English at 8 p.m. (Eastern Time).
CBQR-FM carries the Nunavut regional radio service of CBC North, much of which originates at CFFB Iqaluit. The afternoon program Tusaajaksat, which focuses on the Kivalliq Region, originates from CBQR. Some of the CBC North regional programs air in both English and Inuktitut, others are only in Inuktitut.
On television, the first CBC production centre inside the CBC North service area opened at CFYK-TV in Yellowknife in 1979, producing Our Ways, a monthly news magazine. [33] An additional television production unit was established in Whitehorse in 1986, [34] and in Iqaluit in 1987 when production of the weekly program Taqravut moved there. [35]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. [5] It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.
CBC was generally supportive of IBC and its goals. But the programming produced by CBC's own northern service took precedence, and IBC programming, as a priority, came last on the list, and in the schedule. IBC programs were run after twelve at night, and were subject to preemption whenever a hockey game ran late.