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LPRT - Low Powered Relay Transmitter - a CBC-owned and operated, unmanned 40 watt AM station serving a small Canadian community by rebroadcasting a manned CBC-owned station.

The Mackenzie Network - CFYK Radio in Yellowknife and the 12 LPRTs it fed.

North of Sixty - Yukon and the Northwest Territories, which are North of the 60th Parallel of Latitude.

Northern Service of the CBC

PWA - Pacific Western Airlines - scheduled 737 jet service throughout the Northwest Territories.

Southern Canada - South of the 60th Parallel of Latitude

Jon Pearkins
August 01, 2004