The jury has emerged from a long-weekend stay in the deliberation room to determine the Seven Wonders of the CBC.
And the envelope please…
Happy Valley/Goose Bay: Edger Allen Crow
Judge Paul Gorbould (CBC Archives) said “This is my absolute favourite! [It] has all the elements: natural, physical, interesting location, good pictures, good video, and American interest.”- Sackville: RCI antenna farm
Gorbould: “I’ve seen that from the highway, it’s pretty impressive, in a hideous way.” (Has anyone tried cooking a hotdog in front of one of those transmitters?) - Edmonton: That building’s painfully slow elevator
Really, do they have a pair of underfed 12-year-olds in the basement manually pulling that thing on pulleys? 
Toronto: Corridor of Social Awkwardness
Judge John Paolozzi (CBC Radio 3) said “I hope those who work in the vicinity occasionally act out the final scene from A-Ha’s video for Take On Me. Sounds like a dare to me.- Inuvik: Emergency exit
The emergency exit, with its rare view of the Western Arctic’s utilidors (above-ground sewage lines). - Cape Breton: The “museum of downsizing”
Says the nominee: “There’s an entire basement that’s never used. It houses old TV studios, a storeroom full of cassette tapes (both music and show archives), and one of the hugest vinyl collections I’ve ever seen — especially for a station that doesn’t have a record player anymore!” 
Vancouver: The tiny, and mostly useless, smoking awning
Paolozzi: “It’s a wonder, because all of the smokers wonder why the hell they didn’t get a bigger awning.”
Honourable mention has to be made of Radio 3 fans who undertook something of a campaign to get the R3-30 Wheel of Freedom and Twin Spin on the finalists list.
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Yay for CBC North!
Now, tell the truth: Is this like the other Seven Wonders contest, where you’ll tell us that you only included something northern because you thought you had to? Not that I’m jaded, of course.
We always feel left out @ CBC North….so every chance we get to remind the rest of the corp that we’re here….well, we take it. (Don’t forget - Canada runs from sea to sea TO SEA)
Oh it is so very nice that the judges took the time to be inclusive of CBC North. Too bad they couldn’t be inclusive of CBC Radio 3. This contest mirrors the official CBC version so closely it isn’t funny. Now I know how all the supporters of Sleeping Giant feel like.
Where can we see a better picture of the tiny awning? to see how small it really is.
The gentleman in the shot is standing on the ashtray to give you a sense of scale.
wow that’s small