Coventry broadcasting television
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Coventry Broadcasting Television (CBT) is a series of two local tv stations available in the Coventry and Warwickshire area or to any UK user who has a broadband connection.
The company is based in Coventry,UK.
CBT started in 2004 with its falgship news show, "The Morning Prgoramme" presented by Katie Allen and James Dalton. These t wo presenters soon moved to Fridays with Anne McMannus, Gareth Cartwright and James Muytre co-hosting the Monday to Thursday shows. The Friday edition is now hosted by Katie Allen and Gareth Cartwight following the departure of James Dalton in October 2006.
Each edition of the programme runs 6am to 8am Mon-Fri on CBT 1. (This is not advertisement)
The station is split into two main channels, CBT 1 and CBT 2.
CBT 1 broadcasts live programes from the companies Coventry studio between the hours of 6am to 1pm, the repeats of other networks programmes from 1pm to 10pm. Throughout the day there are a number of news reports from the studio of "The Morning Programme" At the weekends there is a simple set of news bulletins broadcast every hour on the channel with music videos played in between.
CBT 2 broadcasts simple advertisement for local companies, stock exchange live information and soap operas from around the world. This station runs from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday. (This is not advertisement)
[edit] The Morning Programme
The Morning Programme is CBT's flagship news, sport and entertainment show broadcast between 6am and 8am Monday to Friday. This includes national holidays.
The Morning Programme face team currently are:
- Katie Allen,
- Anne McMannus,
- Gareth Cartwright,
- James Muytre,
- Lucy Pargeter (Weather)
- Carl Rosenby (Weather)
The stations original male head face team member (presenter) James Dalton departed from the station in 2006, pending employment with BBC Wales.

