The Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation was created in 2001 as a non-profit organization with a mandate to collect, preserve and celebrate Canadian achievements in radio and television.

Since that time, the Foundation has built a coalition of partners from within and outside the broadcast industry and the Heritage sector of the Government of Canada. The Foundation has assembled what is now the largest collection of broadcast artefacts in Canada.

On April 30, CTVglobemedia announced a $400,000 grant to the CBMF, as part of the public benefits package for the acquisition of the CHUM properties. This grant continues CTVgm's support of the Foundationwhich began in 2001. Their ongoing partnership has helped the Foundation develop the concept for the National Broadcast Collection, which now contains more than 6000 items.

The Foundation's Founding Chair, Peter Herrndorf, hopes that the grant will set the bar for other Canadian broadcasters.

“If other industry sponsors follow this lead, the Collection will continue to grow and new opportunities will be created nation-wide to celebrate our broadcast legacy. In effect, CTVgm's commitment is an evergreen gift to the people of Canada for which we are profoundly grateful.”
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We are pleased to announce that Rogers Media has pledged four years of support to the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation. This fulfills an outstanding public benefit commitment that arose when CHUM Ltd. purchased the Craig TV stations in 2004. The Foundation is especially pleased to be working with Rogers Media because of the remarkable role the Rogers family has played over three generations in the evolution of the radio, television and cable distribution elements of Canada's broadcasting system.

On April 25th 2008, the CBMF co-hosted with Library and Archives Canada a pre-broadcast screening of the documentary “Radical Dreamer: The Passionate Journey of Graham Spry”. A White Pine Pictures and Soundings/Steele Inc. production, produced and directed by Peter Raymont and Bruce Steele, in association with the SCN, TVO, BC Knowledge Network, AccessTV and CLT, the documentary follows the multi-faceted and fascinating life of Graham Spry, known as the “Father of Canadian Public Broadcasting”.

Using archival material from the Library and Archives Canada, and interviews with historic and contemporary figures, the documentary explores the varied life of this nation-builder, who played an important role in the introduction of socialized medicine to Canada, the founding of the CCF party that later became the NDP, and the creation of a public broadcasting service for Canada - the CBC. Kealy Wilkinson, Executive Director of the CBMF who worked with Spry for a decade, was a consultant to the team that produced this documentary.

At the pre-broadcast screening, she used the opportunity to spread the word about the CBMF and its mission, and the importance of preserving Canada's broadcast heritage. Doug Rimmer of Library and Archives Canada highlighted the enormous value of the LAC's audio-visual and print holdings to expanding public knowledge of Canada's history.
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Tom Curzon has had a varied and successful career. He began in newspapers, working for more than two decades as a journalist and editor for the Toronto Star. He also served as a member of the Ontario Press Council. His career changed focus in 1984 when he joined the CBC as Senior Director of Media and Public Relations for CBC Radio and Television. After thirteen years at the public broadcaster, Mr. Curzon moved to Baton Broadcasting Incorporated as Director of Communications and, ten months later, he became Vice President of Corporate Communications at the newly-formed CTV Inc. From 2001-2007, he also served concurrently as Group Vice-President, Corporate Communications for Bell Globemedia.

The CANPRO Award was donated to the CBMF by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in 2008. The award is the CANPRO Scroll of Honor. Around the base are 20 brass plaques, bearing the names of previous recipients of the award.

CANPRO was the Canadian Television Program Festival that ran from 1974 to 1999. Created to bring more exposure to local Canadian television programs produced in markets of various sizes, the Festival sought to gather local programmers from across the country to exchange ideas, find solutions to production problems, and to exhibit the best of their programs in competition.
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