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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1901
Marconi transmits wireless signal to Newfoundland from
Cornwall
1902 Marconi sets up a wireless telegraphy station at
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
1905
Wireless Telegraph Act
1913
Radio Telegraph Act
1919 first broadcasting licence issued to Marconi station
XWA, Montreal
1922
first Canadian licensing of commercial broadcasting stations,
including francophone CKAC Montreal
1923 Canadian National Railways (CNR) opens radio department
in Montreal, with radio service to trains (discontinued
1931)
1923 first network broadcast links stations in Montreal
and Ottawa
1924
CN Radio begins to build network
1927 first regularly-scheduled network service in Canada
links CN stations in Montreal and Ottawa
1928 Royal Commission on Broadcasting (Aird Commission)
1930 Canadian Radio League founded
1930 first Canadian television experiments in Montreal.
1932
first Parliamentary Committee on Broadcasting
beginnings
1932 Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act establishes Canadian
Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC)
1933
CRBC acquires CN Radio facilities
1933 first CRBC daily national broadcasts
1935
CRBC shortwave station opened at Britannia Heights, Ottawa
1936
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established
1937
Inter-American Wavelength Conference, Havana
1938 CBC Radio Orchestra founded
1939
CBC Publications Branch formed
1941
formal opening of CBC News Service
1941 North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (Havana
Treaty) comes into effect
1945
official opening of CBC International Service
1945 first Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference in London
1946
first CBC FM stations opened in Montreal and Toronto
1948
first publication of CBC Times program guide
1949
interim plan for development of Canadian TV
absorbs Newfoundland BC
1949 Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland becomes
part of CBC
1949 Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts,
Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission)
television
1952 launch of Canadian television service
1952 CBC Symphony Orchestra founded
1953
CKSO-TV Sudbury first private television station
1955
Royal Commission on Broadcasting appointed (Fowler Commission)
1958
Broadcasting Act creates Board of Broadcast
Governors
1960 CBC experimental FM network opens
1961
CTV Network opens
1961 first Telstar communications satellite transmission
from North America to Europe
1964
Fowler Committee on Broadcasting
1968 Broadcasting Act creates Canadian Radio-Television
Commission (CRTC) as regulatory and licensing authority
Telesat and TVA
1969 Telesat Canada Act
1970
CBC Times ceases
1970 first joint public-private ownership of a Canadian
station
1971 opening of Canada's first French-language private
television network, Les Telediffuseurs Associes (TVA)
1972 revised Canadian content regulations for private
television stations; 60 per cent minimum in overall programming
1973 Canada's third English network, Global Television,
licensed by CRTC to serve five Ontario cities
1973 launch of Anik 1, Telesat Canada's domestic communications
satellite
1974
CBC French FM stereo network launched
1975 Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications
Industry
1976 CRTC becomes Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications
Commission, regulating telecommunications and broadcasting
Pay tv
1983 first pay-tv channels in Canada
1986 publication of reports by Federal Task Force on Program
Review (Nielsen) and Broadcasting Policy (Caplan/Sauvageau)
1991 Broadcasting Act
1997 Galaxie pay audio service
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