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service. Later, when CFCY was licenced to go to 10,000 watts, a third tower was added.

There was an apartment in the new transmitter building and Mona and Ray Simmons were resident transmitter operators. Ray picked up some technical knowledge and Mona learned to read the dials, turn on the diesel and do most of the ordinary duties but if she had real trouble on her shift she would call Doug Moser, Lorne Finley, John Phillips and later Walter Corney. A transmitter operator for twenty years, Mona loved to do the landscaping around the building and one year won the Provincial First Prize of the Rural Beautification Society for the beauty of the trees and shrubs she had planted.

While all these changes were being made to the radio station, my father’s mind was on television. As far back as 1931 when he was forming a limited company, he had insertedin the Letters Patent, an unusual phrase. The Island Radio Broadcasting Co. Ltd. would be legally entitled, in carrying on the business of radio broadcasting,

“to send and transmit, receive and re-transmit by radio vision or otherwise, pictures."

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Receptionist and commercial

writer, whose voice has also been

heard on many commercials, Muriel Murtagh was honoured

for 35 years of service in 1989.

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