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Official Opening of CBXT

Item number (ISN):

225336

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1961-11-07

Item number (ISN):

225336

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

FINLAY, James Robert

Accession:

1994-0214

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1961-11-07

Release date:

1961-11-07

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

announcer, Jim [Frum]

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Description:

Audio recording of a television broadcast of the official opening of CBC television station CBXT five weeks after it first went on the air. It includes speeches by R.L. Dunsmore, Chairman of the CBC Board of Directors, and Alberta's Lieutenant Governor, J. Percy Page, who cuts a ribbon made of videotape to declare the station official open. Described are the new building and its operations. CBC President J. Alphone Ouimet, Alderman [Morris Winelaw] who represents the mayor of Edmonton, and CBC Prairie Regional Director J.R. Finlay also speak.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. At the time of the opening, CBXT was the most powerful low-band television station in North America.~2. Followed by part of a television broadcast of a freetime political broadcast called ELECTION PREVIEW, consisting of a speech by a Mr. [Ledger] about Edmonton's debt.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

245261

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1994-0214/21

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

ACETATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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