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History
In 1929, the
Aird Commission on
public broadcasting recommended the creation of a national radio broadcast network. A major concern was the growing influence of American radio broadcasting as U.S.-based networks began to expand into Canada. Meanwhile,
Canadian National Railways was making a radio network to keep its passengers entertained and give it an advantage over its rival, CP. This, the CNR Radio, is the forerunner of the CBC.
Graham Spry and
Alan Plaunt lobbied intensely for the project on behalf of the
Canadian Radio League. In 1932 the government of
R.B. Bennett established the CBC's predecessor, the
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC).
The CRBC took over a network of
radio stations formerly set up by a federal Crown corporation, the
Canadian National Railway. The network was used to broadcast programming to riders aboard its passenger trains, with coverage primarily in central and eastern Canada. On November 2, 1936, the CRBC was reorganised under its present name. While the CRBC was a state-owned company, the CBC was a
Crown corporation on the model of the
BBC.
Leonard Brockington was the CBC's first chairman.
For the next few decades, the CBC was responsible for all broadcasting innovation in Canada. This was in part because, until 1958, it was not only a broadcaster, but the chief regulator of Canadian broadcasting. It used this dual role to snap up most of the
clear-channel licences in Canada. It began a separate French-language radio network in 1937. It introduced
FM radio to Canada in 1946, though a distinct FM service wasn't launched until 1960.
Television broadcasts from the CBC began on September 6, 1952, with the opening of a station in
Montreal,
Quebec (
CBFT), and a station in
Toronto,
Ontario (
CBLT) opening two days later. The CBC's first privately owned
affiliate television station,
CKSO in
Sudbury, Ontario, launched in October 1953. (At the time, all private stations were expected to affiliate with the CBC, a condition that relaxed in 1960–61 with the launch of
CTV.)
From 1944 to 1962, the CBC split its English-language radio network into two services known as the
Trans-Canada Network and the
Dominion Network. The latter, carrying lighter programs including American radio shows, was dissolved in 1962, while the former became known as CBC Radio. (In the late 1990s, CBC Radio was rebranded as
CBC Radio One and CBC Stereo as CBC Radio Two. The latter was re-branded slightly in 2007 as
CBC Radio 2.)
On July 1, 1958, CBC's television signal was extended from coast to coast. The first Canadian television show shot in colour was the CBC's own
The Forest Rangers in 1963. However, colour television broadcasts did not begin until July 1, 1966, and full-colour service began in 1974. In 1978, CBC became the first broadcaster in the world to use an orbiting satellite for television service, linking Canada "from east to west to north."
Frontier Coverage Package
Starting in 1967 and continuing until the mid-1970s, the CBC provided limited television service to remote and northern communities. Transmitters were built in a few locations and carried a four-hour selection of black-and-white videotaped programs each day. The tapes were flown into communities to be shown, then transported to other communities, often by the "bicycle" method used in
television syndication. Transportation delays ranged from one week for larger centres to almost a month for small communities.
The first FCP station was started in
Yellowknife in 1967, the second in
Whitehorse in 1968. Additional stations were added from 1969 to 1972. Most stations were fitted for the Anik satellite signal during 1973, carrying 12 hours of colour programming. Broadcasts were geared to either the Atlantic time zone (UTC−4 or −3) or the Pacific time zone (UTC−8 or −7) even though the audience resided in communities in time zones varying from UTC−5 to UTC−8.
Some of these stations used non-CBC
callsigns such as
CFWH-TV in Whitehorse, while some others used the standard CB_T callsign.
It would be many years before television programs originated in the north without the help of the south, starting 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.