Toronto Time Machine

  Television has presented the world with a beautiful new medium for which many of us have experienced fiction and the real world in a way never envisioned before. From carefree programs providing some levity to major sporting events and world-changing events, the so-called “tube” is something most Canadians have formed some relations with. How we consume television has been undergoing a metamorphosis over the past decade as streaming greatly changed the importance of traditional broadcast channels with the added acceptance of paid content services. In fact, the future of television has been a matter of debate since the first signals hit the airwaves. While humankind generally embraced the technology, television’s history included a number of concepts that failed to be greatly realized for their time. In the 1960s, one of those attempts to explore the consumption of television took place in Etobicoke (today part of the City of Toronto) involving movies and sports brought to hom...

  Photo Credit: Chris Nagy Founded in 1892 as The Evening Star, the newspaper Torontonians today recognize as the Toronto Star has a long history of presenting Canada’s largest city with important news. With a black-on-white display, information conveying details of local, Canadian and worldwide stories has referenced everything from the election of prime ministers, world wars, accomplishments in sports or more recently when Justin Bieber is coming to town. Until their entrance onto the Internet in 1996, the Toronto Star was known merely through their printed words. Little is currently acknowledged for their more than decade-long impact with the use of voice. Toronto’s first radio station CFCA officially launched in 1922 with buzz that would silenced on August 31 st of 1933. One of the first commercial radio broadcasters awarded a license by the Canadian government, CFCA was Toronto’s first station. Hard to believe today where Toronto radio space on the AM and FM dial is tight, th...