Introducing the CBC Broadcasting Centre, Toronto, Canada

Imagine! An opportunity to desing an integrated television and radio plant from scratch, to be operational in the early 1990s, including a custom-designed building and the technical systems that would equip it—this was what was offered to the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1988, when a decision was finally made to build a new facility for its many operations in Toronto, Canada. This decision had been long awaited, as the English-language television and radio networks and the local Toronto stations in English and French struggled to operate as a leading-edge broadcaster from a collection of buildings that included a converted school, a showroom, office buildings, and theatrical stages spread out over metropolitan Toronto, and equipped with facilities that were not only trailing edge, but already some distance behind that!

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1993-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J03724