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'CBOFT' is the Radio-Canada station serving Franco-Ontarians in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, and the Québécois on the Quebec side of the Ottawa Valley. It is also the flagship of the provincewide "Ontario-Outaouais" network. ("Outaouais" is French for "Ottawa", usually in reference to the river and the valley, and not the capital, which francophones call "Ottawa", like the English.)
It is the network's primary affiliate in Ontario. Toronto's CBLFT and its rebroadcasters, including the previously-separate CBEFT in Windsor, are now officially desginated as repeaters of CBOFT, as the CBLFT "local" newscast is in fact now produced in Ottawa. The station identifies itself as "[Societé] Radio-Canada: Ontario-Outaouais" on-air, reflecting its de-facto status as driving a repeater chain feeding all of Ontario and part of Québec (Ottawa-Gatineau and the National Capital Region being divided between two provinces).
Before CBOFT went to air in 1955, CBOT aired both CBC and SRC programs.
For a brief time during 1977 and 1978, until CHOT opened, CBOFT also carried some TVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate, CFVO-TV (whose channel 30 frequency is now occupied by CIVO) went broke.