Global BC 60 Years

Global BC celebrated an incredible milestone in 2020 — 60 years on air and in the community!

The station, originally branded CHAN-TV and airing on Channel 8, first signed on the air at 4:45 p.m. on Oct. 31, 1960 from temporary studios at the corner of Richards and Davie streets in downtown Vancouver. A short time later the station moved to Burnaby, where it has been broadcasting from ever since.

Take a look at Global BC 60 Years stories, interviews and images that shaped our community over the past six decades.

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From the Global BC archives

3:44 History of Air India Flight 182 bombing

• History of Air India Flight 182 bombing
• Polar Bear Swim from 1962, my how times have changed
• From 1968: Johnny Cash on recording ‘At Folsom Prison’, his own arrest and becoming a country music star
• From the Archives: B.C. man helps track down scam artist
• Monty Python clowns around with Vancouver news crew in 1973
• Archive footage show the 1967 Seattle Totems take on the Vancouver Canucks
• Archive: Anniversary of Mount St. Helens eruption
• Archive: The B.C. fugitive who hid in Texas for 24 years
• Archive footage of the widespread flooding in B.C. In 1948
• From the Archive: VSB firing 1985
• Archives: Global’s breaking news coverage of the Stanley Cup Riot
• Archives: The building of Playland’s wooden roller coaster
• Archive: B.C. aims to sell Ocean Falls water to the United States
• Archive: Cassiar sold off

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