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A weekend in 1948
In 1948 radio was in its golden age in North America. But even as the medium experienced unparalleled success, plans for CBC Television were already underway.
The programs and specials represented in the schedule below are drawn from CBC weekend broadcasts — Saturdays and Sundays — in 1948. CBC program guides of that year published in Ontario and British Columbia are the basis for the following grid. Most of the programs listed below were heard on all stations in the CBC Trans-Canada Network or the CBC Dominion Network; Hockey Interview was broadcast on CBM, Montreal's English-language CBC station.
The programs and specials represented in the schedule below are drawn from CBC weekend broadcasts — Saturdays and Sundays — in 1948. CBC program guides of that year published in Ontario and British Columbia are the basis for the following grid. Most of the programs listed below were heard on all stations in the CBC Trans-Canada Network or the CBC Dominion Network; Hockey Interview was broadcast on CBM, Montreal's English-language CBC station.
6 radio clips
The Atom Bomb
Broadcast Date: April 3, 1948
The Second World War ended in 1945 with two devastating atomic explosions in Japan. Three years later, scientists in Port Hope, Ont., are working to harness the power of the atom for peaceful uses. But what CBC listeners really want to know is: What effect would an atomic bomb have on weather patterns? In a regular program called Clearing Up the Weather, meteorologist Gilmore Clarke explains.The Atom Bomb
• According to a CBC program schedule from May 1948, Gilmore Clarke of Clearing Up the Weather took questions from listeners and gave "any answer to do with rain or shine."• Clarke was employed by the Dominion Public Weather Service. He often referred to a large meteorological map in the studio during his radio segments with host Bill Bessey.
• In this clip, Clarke refers to "experiments" in Port Hope, Ont. From 1932 to 1953 a refinery in the town, on Lake Ontario, processed radioactive ores to produce radium and uranium. Radium was used in medical treatments and for illuminating watch faces; uranium was used for defence purposes.
• Fear of a nuclear explosion was widespread after the Second World War, as seen in the CBC Archives topic Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Atom Bomb
Medium: Radio
Program: Clearing Up the Weather
Broadcast Date: April 3, 1948
Host: Bill Bessey
Reporter: Gilmour Clarke
Duration: 2:18
Last updated:
April 16, 2008
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Dec. 14, 1948
The Supreme Court of Canada lifts a ban on the sale of margarine, a butter substitute that's half the price.
The Atom Bomb.
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Last updated: April 16, 2008.
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