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First Television Broadcast in Western Canada
Society: IEEE Main Category: Electric Sub Category: Era: 1950-1959 DateCreated: 1953 CBC Broadcasting Site, Mount Seymour North Vancouver State: BC Zip: V7G 1L3 Country: Canada Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:First_Television_Broadcast_in_Western_Canada Creator: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

On 16 December 1953, the first television broadcast in Western Canada was transmitted from this site by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBUT Channel 2. The engineering experience gained here was instrumental in the subsequent establishment of the more than one thousand public and private television broadcasting sites that serve Western Canada today.

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