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CBC Radio Building (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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In addition to its role as the Halifax home of CBC Radio, the building also offered free space to a wide range of arts organizations, playing a vital role in the growth of the province's cultural scene. The offices of the classical music organizations Debut Atlantic and the St. Cecilia Concert Series
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began his CBC career in the building in 1946, creating the character "Rawhide" to host a morning country and western show that soon became a satirical hit. After renting for many years, the CBC purchased the building in 1981. However, in the wake of staff reductions and programming cuts, the CBC sold
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The building was made for Fred C. Manning, a Nova Scotia businessman who built a chain of gas stations and car dealerships during the 1920s and 30s known as the United Service Corporation. Completed in 1933, it originally served as a car dealership, gas station and Manning's head office. Sydney Perry
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and other CBC services in Nova Scotia moved into the building installing their transmission tower on the roof in the first few years. CBC studios soon grew to occupy more of the building which came to serve as home to English CBC Radio One station
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known for its elegant curves and often associated with transportation facilities of the era. In order to maximize the use of the corner property, parking was provided on the roof of the building, with access via a specially built elevator.
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CBC broadcast its final shows from the building in November 2014. The building was purchased by Southwest Developments who began demolition on it in March 2016. The former site of the CBC building and the adjacent
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the building in 2014 as part of plans to consolidate television and radio in a new facility on 7067 Chebucto Road in the Armdale neighbourhood of
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were housed there at the invitation of then-regional radio director Bill Donovan. in 1993, the building also became home to the
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at the invitation of then-CBC Television director Fred Mattocks, following the festival's loss of office space at the
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Dumaresq, one of a family of famous Nova Scotian architects, designed the building in the
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History of Nova Scotia with Special Attention Given to Transportation and Communication
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as well as radio administration and various arts programs. The Canadian humourist
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are now the location of two 13-storey residential buildings.
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CBC Radio Building (Halifax)

Streamline Moderne
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Coordinates
44°38′36″N 63°34′54″W / 44.64333°N 63.58167°W / 44.64333; -63.58167
Reinforced concrete
Streamline Moderne
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Halifax Citadel
Halifax Public Gardens
CBC Radio
Streamline Moderne
Art Deco
CBC Radio
CBHA
CBHA-FM
CBH-FM
Max Ferguson
Halifax's West End
Atlantic Film Festival
National Film Board of Canada
Barrington Street
YMCA


"The Story of the CBC Radio Building at Sackville and Bell Road, Halifax"
"The Family that Built this City"

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