The Canadian Broadcasting Centre

View up to the skylight inside the Barbara Frum atrium.

View from CN Tower

The Canadian Broadcasting Centre, located in Toronto, is the broadcast headquarters and master control point for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English-language television and radio services. It also contains studios for local and regional French language productions. Download high resolution version (1024x723, 230 KB)Taken by SimonP in April 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canadian Broadcasting Centre Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (1024x723, 230 KB)Taken by SimonP in April 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canadian Broadcasting Centre Categories: GFDL images ... Image File history File links Cbc_building_view_to_window_ceiling. ... Image File history File links Cbc_building_view_to_window_ceiling. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1077x1307, 558 KB) Canadian Broadcasting Center seen from the Skypod observation deck of the CN Tower. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1077x1307, 558 KB) Canadian Broadcasting Center seen from the Skypod observation deck of the CN Tower. ... Control room for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, taken November 7, 2005 during an interview with Gen. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Building History

The 13-storey building was opened in 1993 and was constructed at a cost of CAD 350 million, in order to accommodate CBC employees who were housed at the time in various buildings throughout downtown Toronto. It took over 12 years of planning and a further 4 years to build the complex. Television production is located in the upper floors (with many programs recorded in the three rooftop studios), and radio below, on the second and third floors. Some of the larger sound stages are rented out to outside movie productions. The building itself is isolated from the surrounding land, with the whole building sitting on rubber pads as to reduce unwanted noise and vibrations. And for that reason all of the studios are located in the core of the building. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation 2. ...

The atrium was named for Barbara Frum, a noted Canadian journalist. It is best known as the place where CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge based all of CBC's operations during CBC 2000 Today, the network's coverage of the millennium. It has been a venue for federal election coverage, as well as episodes of Canadian Antiques Roadshow. Barbara Frum Barbara Frum, OC , BA , LL.D (September 8, 1937 – March 26, 1992) was one of Canadas most respected and influential journalists, a legendary news anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Peter Mansbridge Peter Mansbridge (born July 6, 1948) is a Canadian journalist and anchor of The National, CBC Televisions flagship nightly newscast. ... 2000 Today was an internationally-broadcast television special commemorating the beginning of the Year 2000. ... Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antique appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. ...

The building also contains the Glenn Gould Studio, a performance and recording studio. The CBC Museum, which is dedicated to preserving the memories and physical artifacts of the national broadcaster's heritage, is also located on the first floor of the building. A Toronto campus of the International Academy of Design and Technology, focusing on film production—which is not directly affiliated with the CBC—is also contained within the building. Glenn Gould Studio is a performance and recording studio located in the CBC Broadcast Centre. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... Main entrance to the CBC Museum, contained within the Canadian Broadcasting Centre The CBC Museum is dedicated to the preserving the physical heritage and archival materials relating to the history of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... The International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) is an accredited college with locations throughout the United States and Canada. ...

The Canadian Broadcasting Centre is located at 250 Front Street West in downtown Toronto, directly across the street from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and within close walking distance of Union Station, the Rogers Centre, and the CN Tower. Public tours are available on occasion. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004. ... Union Station is a major railway, subway, and streetcar station at 65 Front Street West between Bay Street and York Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Rogers Centre, formerly known as (and often still unofficially called) SkyDome, [1] is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. ... The CN Tower, at 553. ...

The analogous facility for CBC's French-language networks is Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal. The CBC's corporate headquarters are located in Ottawa in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre. Maison Radio-Canada Maison Radio-Canada (sometimes Maison de Radio-Canada) is a skyscraper located in Montreal, constructed in 1973 as a home for all of the CBCs stations in Montreal. ... Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario County Established 1850 as Bytown City Mayor Bob Chiarelli Governing body Ottawa City Council MPs / MPPs Members of Parliament (MPs) Mauril Bélanger (LPC), Paul Dewar (NDP), John Baird (CPC), Royal Galipeau (CPC), David McGuinty (LPC),Pierre Lemieux (CPC... The Queen Street side of the new CBC Building The CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre is located in Ottawa, Canada and is home to the head office of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBCs various English and French language operations in the National Capital Region. ...

Facts and Figures

• Architects: Bregman + Hamann Architects & Engineers and John Burgee Architects
• Acoustic and Vibration Consultants: Aercoustics Engineering Limited
• Stories: 13
• Completed: 1992
• Building size: 1.72 million square feet
• When finished it contained: 3 radio studios (including the Glenn Gould Theatre), 19 radio production studios, 3 television studios, 2 local television studios, 1 national news studio, and 2 other all purpose studios.

External links

• Aercoustics Engineering Limited
• CBC Museum
• Glenn Gould Studio
• Google Maps placemark file for the Canadian Broadcast Centre

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