Community Television
Your Channel, Your Voice
Welcome to Northwestel Community Television – a unique and exciting way of communicating with your fellow citizens. Northwestel provides dedicated Community Channels in Whitehorse, YT (Cable 9) and Yellowknife, NT (Cable 20) along with the support for the production of non-commercial programming relevant to community needs and interests.
Northwestel welcomes ALL inquiries or interest from the public to provide or participate in programming on Community Cable 9 and 20, so please contact us if you have any ideas you would like to discuss.
Direct all programming inquiries to:
Chris McNutt, Manager Community Media
867.393. 7669
Click here to learn more about programming and how you can be involved with Community TV.
Community Cable 9 Short Video Contest
Could you use a $2,500 MacBook Gift Certificate to Meadia Solutions? How about a $250 Gift Certificate to The Source? Now’s your time to win, with the 2010 Community Cable 9 Short Video Contest!
The 2010 Community Cable 9 Short Video Contest is accepting short video submissions from now until the contest closing date of August 31, 2010.
Contest is open to all residents of Yukon and Northern BC.
Click Here for Full Contest Rules
Click Here to View the Contest Poster
Community TV Schedule
Click here for the Whitehorse Community Cable 9 Schedule
Click here for the Yellowknife Community Cable 20 Schedule
Northwestel TV Advertising
Northwestel Community Television offers a number of affordable and efficient ways to reach a high-percentage of households in your target community – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Each community has a channel dedicated to scrolling TV listings with advertising above and Whitehorse cable features "Info Cable 8", a dedicated advertising and information channel popular in that community.
Public Messages on Community TV
Northwestel is pleased provide posting service for Public Service Announcements, Coming Events Listings, Sports Organization Information and general Community Announcements to be placed on our Whitehorse, YT and Yellowknife, NT Community channels.
Public message submissions will be accepted by all Government and Non-profit organizations.
Please provide the following relevant information in an email to tvmessages@nwtel.ca:
- Message / Event Title
- Date / Time
- Location / Address
- Brief description
- Contact Information – phone / email / web URL
A photo or image can be submitted with the Message. The preferred image format is a jpg, 72 dpi, max size 300 x 300 pixels.