Broadcasting in Canada

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 27, 17 January 1930, Page 9

Broadcasting in Canada

_ Special . Winter Programmes A’ PROGRAMME of 25 national broadcasts, to be given this winter (our summer) over its new Atlantic to Pacific wireless "chain," has been "arranged by the Canadian National Railways, in co-operation with the ‘Toronto Symphony Orchestra. This is the most ambitious programme of broadcasting so far attempted in Canada. The broadcasts, which are to be given weekly, involve the use of 16 sta-. tions, stretching from Halifax, N.S., to Vancouver, and approximately 15,000 miles of land wire. Some conception of the.engineering difficulties involved in giving effect to the scheme may be gained from the fact that five different time zones +re covered, each representing a difference of one hour. In augurating the first of the broadcasts, Sir Henry Thornton said that they regarded the use of radio as:a great national trust. It can add materially to the social and economic life of the nation. It had already broken through the isolation of the settler, and now, through their ni.tional chain of 16 stations, they hoped to be able to foster a closer relationship becween the various parts of the country and to bring home tc everyone -4vithin their boundaries tieir national aspirations and achievements. It was also their intention to further a new intimacy between Yanada and Great Britain by engaging prominent British artists for these coast-to-coast broadcasts.