CBUT-DT (channel 2) is a
television station
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in
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
, Canada, serving as the West Coast
flagship
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of
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
. It is part of a
twinstick
A duopoly (or twinstick, referring to "stick" as jargon for a radio tower) is a situation in television and radio broadcasting in which two or more stations in the same city or community share common ownership.
United States
In the United States, ...
with
Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Ici Radio-Canada Télé (formerly known as Télévision de Radio-Canada) is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada), the national pub ...
station
CBUFT-DT
CBUFT-DT (channel 26) is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which serves the province's Franco-Columbian population and Franco-Yukonnais in Yukon. It is part of a twinstick with CBC Television station CBUT- ...
(channel 26). Both stations share studios at the
CBC Regional Broadcast Centre on Hamilton Street in
downtown Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver is the central business district and the city centre neighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada, on the northwestern shore of the Burrard Peninsula in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. It occupies most of the north sh ...
, while CBUT-DT's transmitter is located atop
Mount Seymour
Mount Seymour is a mountain located in Mount Seymour Provincial Park in the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is a part of the North Shore Mountains, rising to the north from the shores of Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm t ...
in the district municipality of
North Vancouver.
History
The station first signed on the air on December 16, 1953; as such, CBUT is the oldest television station in
Western Canada
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. The station's original studio facilities were located inside a converted automotive dealership at 1200 West Georgia Street (on the intersection of Bute Street) in downtown Vancouver. However, CBUT was not the first television station to serve Vancouverites;
KVOS-TV
KVOS-TV, virtual channel 12 ( UHF digital channel 14), is a Heroes & Icons owned-and-operated television station licensed to Bellingham, Washington, United States. Owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, it is part of a duopoly with Seatt ...
(channel 12, now a primary
Heroes & Icons
Heroes & Icons (H&I) is an American Digital terrestrial television, digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. Usually carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated television station in most markets, the network ai ...
-owned station), across the border in
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham ( ) is the most populous city in, and county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies south of the U.S.–Canada border in between two major cities of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver, British Columbia (locat ...
, had signed on months earlier as a
CBS
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affiliate. CBUT has broadcast exclusively in
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
for most of its existence, except for a period from 1964
to 1976 when
French language
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programs from
Télévision de Radio-Canada aired on weekend mornings; this secondary affiliation ended when CBUFT (channel 26) signed on in September 1976. CBUT was known mainly as "Channel 2" from its inception until 1976.
During the station's early years until 1976, CBUT's
station ID
Station identification (ident, network ID or channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the ...
s consisted of slides of local Vancouver landmarks with the CBUT logo (the number "2" in Clarendon Bold typeface, contained within a stylized television screen) overlaid, accompanied by the announcement "This is CBUT, Channel 2 in Vancouver"; the ID slide used at the end of local programs on CBUT featured a larger version of the station's logo on a navy blue background, accompanied by the announcement "This is CBC Television, Vancouver". Beginning with the introduction of CBC's "gem" logo in December 1974, CBUT (unlike other CBC Television O&Os, which continued using their own station IDs at the end of their local programs) began using the "gem" network ID at the end of all programming, both network-distributed and locally produced.
In 1975, the CBC consolidated its Vancouver radio and television operations into one building. Prior to this, CBC's Vancouver radio properties –
CBU (690 AM),
CBU-FM
CBU-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Music network in Vancouver, British Columbia. The station broadcasts at 105.7 FM. CBU-FM's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
The station was originally lau ...
(105.7) and
CBUF-FM
CBUF-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts Radio-Canada's Ici Radio-Canada Première network at 97.7 MHz in Vancouver and on a chain of rebroadcasters around British Columbia. CBUF-FM is a non-commercial public broadcasting station air ...
(97.7) – had operated from a separate studio facility at 701 Hornby Street, within the basement of the
Hotel Vancouver
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, formerly and still informally called the Hotel Vancouver, is a historic hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. Located along West Georgia Street the hotel is situated within the city's Financial District, in Downtown ...
. Together, those stations formed the basis of the Regional Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street, a few blocks east of its previous radio and television facilities.
![CBC British Columbia 1976 logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/CBC_British_Columbia_1976_logo.svg)
The station's IDs were changed in 1976 when CBUT changed its on-air branding to "CBC British Columbia", with the initial IDs featuring a
totem pole
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superimposed over local landmarks, after which the totem pole zoomed out and turned into the letter "T" in the station brand.
In recent years, CBUT, as with all CBC-owned stations, has de-emphasized local programming in favour of national network programming distributed out of
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
. As of 2002, the station only aired sporadic local non-news programming and dropped all use of local station identifications in favour of using only network IDs; in addition, due to budget cuts, the CBC integrated CBUT's
master control
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operations (as it did for all of its other owned-and-operated stations) into the master control facility at the
Canadian Broadcasting Centre
The Canadian Broadcasting Centre, also known as the CBC Toronto Broadcast Centre, is an office and studio complex located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It serves as the main broadcast and master control point for the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora ...
in
downtown Toronto
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. Recently, however, CBUT has increased its local programming with the introduction of a locally themed lifestyle program, ''Living Vancouver'' (which has since been cancelled), as well as the addition of several new local newscasts.
Programming
CBUT currently produces a number of programs for CBC Television. Portions of ''
Marketplace
A marketplace or market place is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. In different parts of the world, a marketplace may be described as a '' souk'' (from the Arabic), ' ...
'' are produced at CBUT, as were portions of the program ''
Hemispheres'', the now-cancelled national version of ''
Canada Now
''Canada Now'' (more formally ''CBC News: Canada Now'') was the early-evening national news program on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, between 2000 and 2007. For most of its run, it was ...
'' and the late-night independent film program ''
ZeD
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Zed or ZED may also refer to:
Entertainment Characters
*Zed (comics), a character from the ''Hellblazer'' comic series
*Zed (Kiba), the main chara ...
''.
Sports programming
CBUT presents
Vancouver Canucks
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hockey games when Canucks games are featured on CBC Television's ''
Hockey Night in Canada
CBC Television has aired National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts under the ''Hockey Night in Canada'' (often abbreviated ''Hockey Night'' or ''HNiC'') brand that is primarily associated with its Saturday night NHL broadcasts throughout its hi ...
''
NHL
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package produced by
Sportsnet
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, the regional TV and radio rightsholder for the Canucks. Additionally, CBUT presents the Winter and Summer Olympics as part of
CBC's rights deal with the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
.
Locally produced programs formerly aired on CBUT
Some of these programs were also seen on the CBC network, either regionally or nationally.
* ''
The Beachcombers
''The Beachcombers'' is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran on CBC Television from October 1, 1972, to December 12, 1990. With over 350 episodes, it is one of the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canad ...
'' (''drama'')
* ''
Canada Now
''Canada Now'' (more formally ''CBC News: Canada Now'') was the early-evening national news program on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, between 2000 and 2007. For most of its run, it was ...
'' (''national supper-hour newscast'')
* ''
Cariboo Country
The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia, Canada, centered on a plateau stretching from Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. The name is a reference to the caribou that were once abundant in the region.
The Cariboo was th ...
'' (''drama'')
* ''
Celebrity Cooks
''Celebrity Cooks'' was a Canadian cooking show independently produced by ''Initiative Productions'' and aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1979 and on Global from 1980 to 1987. It was syndicated throughout Canada and the United States from 19 ...
'' (''cooking'')
* ''
Danger Bay
''Danger Bay'' is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television in Canada and The Disney Channel in the United States premiering October 8, 1984. Reruns of the show continued on The Disney ...
'' (''drama'')
* ''
Good Rockin' Tonite
: ''For the song, see Good Rocking Tonight''.
''Good Rockin' Tonite'' was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1983 to 1993."As Good Rockin' Tonite turns 10, CBC video show's host is on a roll". ''Montreal Gazette'', J ...
'' (''music videos'')
* ''
Living Vancouver'' (''lifestyles'')
* ''
Northwood'' (''teen drama'')
* ''
Reach for the Top
''Reach for the Top'' (also known simply as ''Reach'') is a Canadian academic quiz competition for high school students. In the past, it has also been a game show nationally broadcast on the CBC. Matches are currently aired online through Reach ...
'' (''quiz show'')
* ''
Rich Little
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's
Christmas Carol
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'' (''holiday special'')
* ''
Switchback'' (''teen variety'')
* ''
Talk About'' (''game show'')
* ''
The Urban Peasant
''The Urban Peasant'' was a Canadian cooking show starring James Barber. The show was broadcast on CBC Television and was filmed at the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre at CBUT in Vancouver, British Columbia. The show also aired in the United State ...
'' (''cooking'')
* ''
The Wolfman Jack Show
''The Wolfman Jack Show'' was a Television in Canada, Canadian variety television series which aired on CBC Television from 1976 to 1977, and syndicated to stations in the US.
Premise
This Vancouver-based series was a co-production of the CBC a ...
'' (''musical variety'')
* ''
ZeD
Zed is the pronunciation of the letter ''Z'' in Commonwealth English ("zee" in American English).
Zed or ZED may also refer to:
Entertainment Characters
*Zed (comics), a character from the ''Hellblazer'' comic series
*Zed (Kiba), the main chara ...
'' (''independent short films'')
News operation
CBUT-DT presently broadcasts 8½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 90 minutes each weekday and 30 minutes each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among CBC Television's stations (either owned-and-operated or affiliated), although it now has the lowest newscast output among the Vancouver–Victoria market's television stations – its weekly news total is far behind CTV O&O
CIVT-DT
CIVT-DT (channel 32) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Victoria-based CTV 2 station C ...
(channel 32) (which airs 38 hours of newscasts each week) and Global O&O CHAN-DT (channel 8) (which broadcasts 46 hours each week).
In years past, the supper hour newscast (which was a completely locally produced program until the introduction of the national ''Canada Now'') was known as ''Hourglass'', ''Newscentre'', ''CBC Evening News'', ''Broadcast One'' and ''CBC News: Vancouver''. On February 19, 2007, CBUT restored an hour-long local newscast to its schedule with the debut of a local edition of ''
CBC News at Six
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'' (which was later retitled ''CBC News: Vancouver'' in July of that year), which retained the ''Canada Now'' name and was originally anchored by former national ''Canada Now'' anchors
Ian Hanomansing
Ian Harvey Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)."Hanomansing's future is anchored in star potential: Pacific Rim host could be next Mansbridge". ''Vancouver Sun'', June 16, 1997. He form ...
and
Gloria Macarenko
Gloria Macarenko, is a Canadian television and radio journalist. From 1989 until 2014, she was the longtime host or co-host of CBC Vancouver's supper-hour television newscast at 5:00 or 6:00. She later hosted the CBC Radio One local program '' B ...
. In September 2009, the early evening newscast expanded to 90 minutes, with the addition of an hour-long block at 5:00 p.m. and the removal of the 6:30 p.m. half-hour of the program.
In April 2010, CBC Television entered into a news share agreement with
CHEK
Chek or CHEK may refer to:
* Chek (brand), soft drink brand of Winn-Dixie
* Chek (unit), a traditional Chinese unit of length
* CHEK-DT, a TV station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
* ''chek'', the Hong Kong English spelling of "å°º", the '' ...
, in which both stations share news story content and resources.
Tony Parsons also joined the CBC to anchor both CBUT's early evening news block and CHEK's 10:00 p.m. newscast, remaining with both stations until his retirement in 2013. In addition, CHEK formerly carried a simulcast of ''CBC News: Vancouver at 6'' and ''Vancouver at 11'' while CBUT also produced a weekend 6:00 p.m. newscast for that station. As of April 10, 2016, CHEK no longer carries CBUT's newscasts; on October 5, 2015, CHEK replaced the 6:00 p.m. airing of ''CBC News: Vancouver'' (since renamed as ''CBC Vancouver News'') with its own half-hour 6:00 p.m. newscast, hosted by former CTV and Global TV reporter Ben O'Hara-Byrne, while on April 10, 2016, CHEK dropped the 11:00 p.m. airing of ''CBC Vancouver News'' in favour of an encore presentation of the 10:00 p.m. CHEK newscast on weeknights and various programming on Sundays.
As of June 2013, weather segments seen on CBUT's newscasts are broadcast in HD, while video from other studio and field cameras are transmitted in
standard definition
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and are upconverted to a
16:9 widescreen
Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than t ...
format.
On July 30, 2014, CBUT announced that
Andrew Chang
Andrew Chang (born 15 December 1982) is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a co-anchor of CBC Television's nightly flagship newscast '' The National''.
Early life
Chang was born on 15 December 1982 in Ottawa and graduated from Ca ...
would begin anchoring the early evening newscasts starting September 1, succeeding Gloria Macarenko, who announced on her last day of her newscasts that she would become host of
CBC Radio
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's ''
The Story from Here''. However, Macarenko will remain host of ''Our Vancouver'' while producing interview segments during CBUT's evening newscasts.
Current on-air staff
*
Anita Bathe
Anita Bathe is a Canadian television journalist, currently the anchor of ''CBC News Vancouver at Six'' on CBUT-DT in Vancouver, British Columbia."Abbotsford journalist named co-host of CBC Vancouver News". ''Abbotsford News'', November 5, 2018.
...
– anchor of ''CBC Vancouver News at 6''
*
Gloria Macarenko
Gloria Macarenko, is a Canadian television and radio journalist. From 1989 until 2014, she was the longtime host or co-host of CBC Vancouver's supper-hour television newscast at 5:00 or 6:00. She later hosted the CBC Radio One local program '' B ...
– host of ''On the Coast'' on
CBC Radio One
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; ''Our Vancouver'' host; also special assignment reporter
Notable former on-air staff
*
Adrienne Arsenault
Adrienne Arsenault is a Canadian journalist who is the Chief Correspondent of CBC News and co-anchor of '' The National'' since November 2017.
Arsenault joined the CBC in 1991, as an editorial assistant and night assignment editor for CBC Toront ...
– reporter (1993–1998; now anchor CBC News' ''
The National'')
*
Andrew Chang
Andrew Chang (born 15 December 1982) is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a co-anchor of CBC Television's nightly flagship newscast '' The National''.
Early life
Chang was born on 15 December 1982 in Ottawa and graduated from Ca ...
– anchor (2014-2017; former co-anchor of CBC News' ''
The National'')
*
Gillian Findlay
Gillian Findlay is a Canadians, Canadian television journalist who has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC and American Broadcasting Company, ABC. She studied history and literature at Simon Fraser University and she holds a diplo ...
– reporter (1982–1985; now at ''the fifth estate'')
*
Dawna Friesen
Dawna Friesen is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief anchor and executive editor of ''Global National''.L. ScrivenerDawna Friesen: From shy prairie girl to Global News anchor ''Toronto Star'', September 20, 2010. She was previ ...
– reporter (now anchor of ''
Global National
''Global National'' is the English language flagship national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Editorial and production staff are based out of Global's national news centre at Global BC in Burnaby, British Columbia, with Dawna Fries ...
'')
*
Bill Good
Bill Good Jr. (born 1945) is a Canadian television personality and host of talk radio shows, all in the province of British Columbia. After 21 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, first doing radio before moving to Television news, ...
– anchor (now retired from
CTV Vancouver
CIVT-DT (channel 32) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Victoria-based CTV 2 station ...
and
CKNW 980)
*
Ian Hanomansing
Ian Harvey Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)."Hanomansing's future is anchored in star potential: Pacific Rim host could be next Mansbridge". ''Vancouver Sun'', June 16, 1997. He form ...
– anchor/reporter (1988–2010; reporter and now anchor for CBC News' ''The National''; previous host of ''CBC News Now'')
*
Claire Martin – meteorologist
*
Tony Parsons – 5:00, 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. anchor (2010–2013; now retired)
*
Jack Webster – reporter, ''Hourglass'' (deceased)
Technical information
Subchannel
Analogue-to-digital conversion
CBUT shut down its analogue signal, over
VHF
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Frequencies immediately below VHF ...
channel 2, on August 31, 2011, the official date in which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory
markets
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* Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand
* Market economy
*Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Geography
*Märket, a ...
transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts. The station's digital signal was relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 58, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to post-transition channel 43.
Through the use of
PSIP
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, digital television receivers display CBUT-DT's
virtual channel
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as its analogue-era VHF channel 2.
Post-transition, CBUT downconverted the high definition video resolution for its digital signal from
1080i
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to 720p.
Spectrum repacking
In April 2017, Industry Canada posted new channel assignments for stations as a result of spectrum repacking due to the U.S. 600 MHz spectrum auction. CBUT-DT will move to channel 35 on May 1, 2020. As of April 2017, channel 35 is occupied by KVOS-TV; that station moved to channel 14 in October 2019.
Former rebroadcasters
CBUT's over 85 analogue rebroadcast transmitters were located on the Lower Mainland,
Vancouver Island
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, the
Okanagan
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, and areas not previously occupied by a private CBC affiliate.
Due to federal funding reductions to the CBC, in April 2012, the CBC responded with substantial budget cuts, which included shutting down CBC's and Radio-Canada's remaining analogue transmitters on July 31, 2012. None of CBC or Radio-Canada's television rebroadcasters were converted to digital;
CHAN-DT
CHAN-DT (channel 8), branded on-air as Global BC (formerly British Columbia Television or BCTV), is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the Global Television Network. Owned and oper ...
is the last major network station in Vancouver to operate rebroadcasters throughout the province.
Out-of-market cable coverage
In addition to its coverage in British Columbia, CBUT has a significant American audience in
Washington state
Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washington ...
. The station's signal is receivable over-the-air in the city of Bellingham. It is also available on cable to nearly one million
Comcast
Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...
subscribers in the
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected ma ...
region; Comcast's Puget Sound system also began offering CBUT's digital signal in
high definition in July 2009. CBUT is also available in both standard and high definition in Western and Central Washington on
Wave Broadband
WaveDivision Holdings, LLC, doing business as Wave Broadband, is an American provider of residential, business, and enterprise class cable TV, broadband Internet, and telephone services to around 455,000 customers in Washington, Oregon, and Ca ...
's systems in Western Washington as well as
Lake Chelan
Lake Chelan ( ) is a narrow, long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. Before 1927, it was the largest natural lake in the state by any measure. Upon the completion of Lake Chelan Dam in 1927, the elevation of the lake was ...
area systems.
References
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