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CKAC Transcription Disc, 1949

A twelve-inch transcription record with a green and white paper label and black print and black handwriting to document the recorded content.

“Biographie Populaire de” by Jean Penverne, program sponsored by Louis St. Laurent, 9 June 1949. Musée des ondes Emile Berliner.

This is an example of a transcription disc. Discs like these allowed programs to be rebroadcast and today, they provide documentation of shows from earlier periods. The Musée des ondes Emile Berliner holds several such recordings in its collection.

 

The transcription translated from French into English: “And it was around 1830 that the third phase of the development of the Eastern Townships began. During the Great Famine that devastated Ireland, Phoebe Wyman and her husband John Ford…”