Talk:Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland
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Maybe these items can be incorporated in the article! The CBC took charge of VONF on April 1, 1949 the day Newfoundland and Labrador joined confederation and its call letters were changed to CBN.
The earlier name was Dominion Broadcasting Company and it was started on November 14, 1932 by William F. Galgay and Joseph Butler. At the time it was a subsidiary company of the Avalon Telephone Company, and then in 1939 the Commission of Government took the Dominion Broadcasting Company into its own Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland.
Reference used Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador ISBN 0920508138
