Television programs originating in the north without the help of the south began with one half-hour per week in the 1980s with "Focus North" and graduating to a daily half-hour newscast, "Northbeat", in the late 1990s. Until then, there were occasional temporary uplinks for such things as territorial election returns coverage; Yukon had the first such coverage in 1985, though because it happened during the Stanley Cup playoffs, equipment was already spoken for, so CBC rented the equipment of CITV-TV Edmonton to use in Whitehorse that evening.