{"id":5794,"date":"2013-02-25T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T01:11:03","slug":"radio-canada-internationals-first-broadcast-68-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/radio-canada-internationals-first-broadcast-68-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Canada International’s first broadcast 68 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RCI\"<\/a>(Source: RCI Action<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s international radio service started officially on February 25, 1945 with an address by Canada\u2019s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, followed by Justice Minister Louis St-Laurent (in French) and then by Howard B. Chase, chairman of the CBC board of governors[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article and listen to the broadcast on the RCI Action website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to listen to the first broadcast on the CBC website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: RCI Action) Canada\u2019s international radio service started officially on February 25, 1945 with an address by Canada\u2019s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, followed by Justice Minister Louis St-Laurent (in French) and then by Howard B. Chase, chairman of the CBC board of governors[…] Read the full article and listen to the broadcast on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,305,288],"tags":[631,30,1197],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-rci","tag-rci-sackville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1vs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4702,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/rci-action-stop-cbc-from-dismantling-our-transmitters-to-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":5794,"position":0},"title":"RCI Action: Stop CBC from dismantling our transmitters to the world","author":"Thomas","date":"October 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"October 31st is quickly approaching and the CBC has requested that the remaining employees at Radio Canada Internationals Sackville transmission site begin dismantling antennas and transmitters that are not currently being used for their remaining three broadcaster clients (NHK, KBS and the Voice of Vietnam) and the CBC North Quebec\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3325,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/rci-action-committee-what-you-can-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":5794,"position":1},"title":"RCI Action Committee: What you can do","author":"Thomas","date":"April 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RCI Action) How can you help? 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