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A few months ago, Halifax Radio Station CHNS marked its 90th birthday.
The inaugural transmission went on the air in May, 1926, produced by founder / manager Major William Borrett.

For the first 20 years, it was the only Halifax radio station.
It gave the news of the progress of the solo trans-Atlantic flight of Charles Lindburgh in 1927, and provided the world-wide riveting reports by J. Frank Willis of the Moose River Mine Disaster in 1936.
On a lighter note, in the 1940s, it hosted a daily music program by a young baritone from the South Shore, Hank Snow.

Radio and Me ... 36

Many schools today have extensive audio and video systems, to go with computers and other specialized facilities.
In the mid 1970s, a group from staff and administration met to launch a close-circuit Radio System in our residential school, the Halifax School for the Blind.

I was not part of the launch group, as I was working that year on my master's degree at Boston College.
They got funds to build a studio on the main floor, complete with sound-proofing materials and donated equipment from the CBC. Telephone wire to carry the radio signal was strung from the studio location to a dozen speakers throughout the student living areas.
Even by the technical standards of the day, the studio equipment was not state-of-the-art,