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CBLT’s first broadcast in 1952 was from Studio One. Only network master control remains in the Jarvis Street studios. It will be relocated to the Broadcast Centre by the end of the year.
CBLT logo from 1940 to 1958. The station first signed on the air on September 8, 1952, originally broadcasting on VHF channel 9. It is the oldest television station in the province of Ontario, and the second oldest in Canada after Ici Radio-Canada Télé flagship station CBFT in Montreal.
Sep 6, 2016 · Then, on September 6, 1952, the first TV station in Canada went on the air in Montreal, the French language public broadcaster Radio-Canada CBFT. September 8, saw the first TV broadcast was...
- Daniel Dale
- Keith Morrison
- Elizabeth Palmer
- Dawna Friesen
- John Blackstone
- Alex Trebek
- Hilary Brown
- Morley Safer
- Peter Jennings
- Lorne Greene
Just last year, Canadian newspaper journalist Daniel Dale joined CNN. The jump came after Dale spent several years working for the Toronto Star in Washington, fact-checking the claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump— an approach that got him noticed by readers on both sides of the border. In his work with CNN, Dale has continued his fact-checki...
Before Keith Morrison was a correspondent on NBC's newsmagazine Dateline,he was a well-known television journalist in Canada. 1. CBC Archives | Keith Morrison interviews a Titanic survivor on CBC's The Journal The Saskatchewan-born newsman's television career started with CTV, before he joined CBC News in 1982 to work on The Journal. Morrison was a...
Elizabeth Palmer regularly visits some dangerous places as part of her work as a senior foreign correspondent with CBS News. Based in London, the British-born Palmer travels all over the world, including to war zones, to do her reporting. 1. CBC Archives | How NAFTA ensured the tequila you drank came from Tequila Earlier in her career, she worked f...
Dawna Friesen is familiar to Global TV viewers as the host of Global National, a position she has held since 2010. But she was a reporter for CBC News in Regina starting in 1989, and in 1991 moved to reporting jobs at CBC in Vancouver and, soon after that, Toronto. Friesen later spent several years as a correspondent and host for CTV News before le...
Another CBC-er who ended up working at the similarly named news organization of CBS was John Blackstone. In November 2018, Blackstone left the day-to-day work of reporting, after spending nearly four decades with CBS News, as a foreign correspondent and news reporter. 1. CBC Archives | 1979 report from The Nationalfeaturing John Blackstone But befo...
The man with all the answers on Jeopardy!used to be the voice that some CBC listeners heard reading news on the radio. 1. CBC Archives | Alex Trebek hosted so many CBC shows before Jeopardy! They also saw Alex Trebek's face on TV when he hosted a variety of programs on CBC-TV, including Music Hop, Reach for the Top and Strategy(a short-lived game s...
Hilary Brown began her career reporting for CBC Television and Radio. Her career spanned several decades, reporting from around the world and for different news outlets. During the 1970s she worked for CBS, and she then became a correspondent for ABC News. Her coverage of the fall of Saigon included a report which gained further fame when it was us...
For decades, everyone who tuned into 60 Minuteson Sundays knew the face — and voice — of Morley Safer. But many may not have known that Safer was a Canadian, who originally hailed from Toronto. Born in 1931, Morley Safer started out in newspapers before joining CBC News when he was in his mid-20s. He worked in his hometown for a bit, but also worke...
It could be said that Peter Jennings was a son of the CBC: his father, Charles Jennings, was a CBC Radio pioneer in its early days. Though he contributed to local Ottawa programs and the current affairs show Close-Up, the junior Jennings didn't spend much of his career at CBC. He was scooped up by CTV in 1962, shortly after its launch as the countr...
Before he won fame as the patriarch Ben Cartwright in the American TV western series Bonanza, Lorne Greene was the CBC radio announcer known as the "Voice of Canada" or "Voice of Doom." He earned the nickname for his imposing, deep-voiced delivery of the news from overseas to Canadians during the Second World War. Greene left Canada in the early 19...
On September 6th, CBFT Montreal had the honour of being the first Canadian TV station to begin regular broadcasting, programming in both French and English. CBLT Toronto followed two days later.
The first Canadian stations (CBFT in Montreal and CBLT in Toronto) sign on. CBLT-TV did its first broadcast covering the opening of the CNE in Toronto. CBFT had already launched two days...
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