CBKST

CBKST
(defunct)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	Canada Lives Here
Channels	Analog: Formerly 11 (VHF)
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	October 17, 1971
Last air date	July 31, 2012
Call letters' meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Henry Kelsey Saskatoon Television
Sister station(s)	CBK (AM), CBKS-FM
Transmitter power	325 kW
Height	239.6 m
Transmitter coordinates	52°10′28″N 106°26′5″W / 52.17444°N 106.43472°W / 52.17444; -106.43472

CBKST was the CBC Television owned-and-operated television station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada from 1971 to 2012. It broadcast an analogue signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter located between Highways 5 and 41. A semi-satellite of CBKT-DT in Regina, it aired separate commercials and (until the 1990s) its own local news broadcasts.

Owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, its master control facilities were located in the Hutchinson Building on 2nd Avenue South (between 21 and 22 Streets East) in Downtown Saskatoon after being relocated from an office tower above Midtown Plaza. This station could also be seen locally on Shaw Cable channel 12 and Sasktel Max channel 3.

CBKST was licensed as a rebroadcaster of CBKRT, even though it operated as a semi-satellite with its own associated network of repeaters. While the CBC originally planned to discontinue CBKST's over the air feed on August 31, 2011 (as the corporation did not originally plan to convert rebroadcasters in mandatory transition markets like Saskatoon to digital), the CRTC granted the CBC permission to allow transmitters in selected mandatory markets, including Saskatoon, to still operate an analogue feed until August 31, 2012. On July 17, 2012, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved CBC's application to delete CBKST from CBKT's licence, effective August 1, 2012. On July 31, 2012, CBKST was shut down after more than 41 years on the air.

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