On this day in 1952, at 8.30 pm, Vancouver’s CBR 1130 became CBU 690. There was a 30-minute CBU Special at 8:30 followed by a Robbie Burns Special at 9:05 pm. The launch of CBU meant a power increase from 5000 watts to 10,000 watts. At this point CBC Radio had just 17 low-power relay transmitters throughout B.C.
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This is interesting. I had always thought CBU operated at 690 kHz long before 1952 and with much more power than 10 kW. It almost sounds as though the province of BC wasn’t all that well served by the public broadcaster until the mid 1950s.