National Canadian Broadcasting

National Canadian Broadcasting is a Canadian television network that launched on radio July 6, 1946 in Vancouver, BC by Robert Lon who has been CEO and President plus Borad member since the company's founding and speared through out Canada and by 1957, expanding to every part of Canada that were wired for television. In 1950, NCB was acquired by United Radio and United Radio renamed to United-NCB Broadcasting Corporation (later National Canadian Broadcasters, LLC in 1967 and finally NCB Holdings in 2000). They created a French offset with Daniel Belmondo in 1956 call RNC. NCB made it's television debut on CBXT-TV Channel 95 Toronto on July 5, 1963 with RNC following suit the next year with the short live Association de Télévision Française du Canada. The company is currently based in Ottawa, ON and has been there since 1961. In 2019, it started broadcasting in 4K with plans to go 4K full time by 2025. They sold there radio operations to BBC International in 2017. RNC still owns there radio operations but plans to shut it down on December 4, 2021. NCB went fully digital in 2006.