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The new Radio Canada building in
Montreal provides 29 studios for sound
and television broadcasting.
Master Control.
Radio Canada Building
The new home of the International Service of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation was officially opened in May this year. The Radio Canada
building will eventually provide for all the operations of the CBC in Montreal,
including facilities for broadcasting to Canadians in English and French and
to the many thousands of listeners to the "Voice of Canada”. The new build-
ing will make it possible for the CBC to extend both its National and Inter-
national Services, as well as television, which will be broadcast in the near
future to both English and French residents of the Montreal area.
The CBC was set up by the government in 1936, in order to supply informa-
tion and entertainment to an entire nation, spread out over almost 314 million
square miles. Canada’s system of radio is designed to overcome the problems
posed by great distances which cover five of the world’s time zones, a scattered
population of some 14 million people and two official languages.
The radio system which serves Canada is unique — in that it combines
public ownership and private enterprise. The CBC, a national system, offers
a public service to listeners living in every part of Canada, by means of networks
which cover the whole of Canada. These broadcasts include news, music,
entertainment and programs of special national interest to all Canadians.
As an alternate service, privately-owned radio stations, dependent on adver-
tising revenue, provide entertainment to many of the larger communities
across the country.
For the past six years, the CBC has also been broadcasting to listeners all
over the world. Programs in 14 different languages are beamed to countries
in Europe, Latin-America and the South-West Pacific by the International
Service, over powerful shortwave transmitters in Sackville, New Brunswick.
These programs are produced in the Radio Canada building in Montreal.
This building is the latest link in the development of radio in Canada and
serves all three national networks as well as the International Service. In
the building, facilities are provided for program material to be fed from any
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