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1947

Acadia Broadcasting (CKBW), a voice for Nova Scotia’s South Shore, is founded in Bridgewater by Lester Rogers, Donald Hill and John Hirtle. In the same year, CHSJ in Saint John installs a new 5,000-watt transmitter and building at Coldbrook Marsh. The first FM transmitter in eastern Canada is...

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1944

K.C. Irving purchases Saint John Publishing, including the company it controlled, New Brunswick Broadcasting, from its principal shareholder, Howard P. Robinson, and incorporates them under the name New Brunswick Publishing Company later that year.

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1940

CHSJ radio moves into new studios at 14 Church Street, connected to the premises of the Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe. A more powerful 1000-watt transmitter tower is built for CHSJ outside the city centre at Coldbrook Marsh. In the same year CHSJ, on the leading edge of technology,...

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1936

CHSJ radio’s most enduring program, the Empty Stocking Fund is established in partnership with the Evening Times-Globe.

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1934

Saint John Publishing Company Ltd. (Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe) purchases CFBO from C.A. Monro on February 1, 1934. Two months later the station call letters are changed to CHSJ and the station moves into new premises in the Admiral Beatty Hotel. Principal shareholder was Howard...

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1933

The Canadian Broadcasting Commission comes into existence on January 18, 1933, with the mandate to set up a national broadcasting network.

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1928

CFBO, the first commercial radio station in Saint John, NB, is established by C.A. Monro Ltd. owned by Charles Monro. While its licence may have been given in late 1927 the first public broadcast by CFBO was a hockey game between teams from Saint John and Truro, NS from the Nova Scotia rink by...