CBC/Radio-Canada Milestones

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1949

• CBC acquires the facilities and staff of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, as the province joins the Confederation.
  
  
  

1948

• First issue of the weekly program guide CBC Times.

1947

• CBC presents a 15-year plan for the development of television in Canada.

1946

• Opening of first CBC FM stations in Toronto and Montreal.
• First fishermen's broadcasts in the Maritimes.

1945

• Official opening of CBC International Service (becomes Radio Canada International in 1972).

1944

• The basic national network is renamed the Trans-Canada Network. The Dominion Network is formed, linking CJBC Toronto with 34 private stations to offer an alternative lighter service.

1943

• Establishment of English School Broadcasts Department.

1942

• A total of 43 hours of French and English programs are broadcast daily, compared with 10 in 1936. Special broadcasts include the opening of the Alaska Highway.

1941

• Formal opening of CBC News Service. Special broadcasts include Winston Churchill's speech from the House of Commons in Ottawa.

1940

• Low power relay transmitters installed for remote communities.
• First provincial school broadcasts begin in Nova Scotia and B.C.
• The CBC symbol showing radio waves and a map of Canada is adopted.