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Planning for CBWT started in November, 1952, when the Government of Canada announced its intention of setting up a television station in Winnipeg.

The station was announced by J. R. Finlay at a Cosmopolitan Club meeting at the Marlborough Hotel on September 16, 1953.

At the time the station was projected to become western Canada's first television station ( before Vancouver's CBUT ), but was delayed.

There was an entry for CBWT in the 1953 MTS telephone book.

In September 1953 CBC Winnipeg moved into a new.

facility at 541 Portage Ave., from its former location within the Manitoba Telephone Building on Portage Ave. East.

It is still there today, and it shares this location with CBW ( AM ) and CBW-FM.