CBC Regional Broadcast Centre Vancouver, Broadcasting complex in Vancouver, Canada
The CBC Regional Broadcast Centre Vancouver is an office and studio complex at 700 Hamilton Street, designed by Paul Merrick for Merrick Architecture and built in 1975. It houses CBC radio and television facilities for the city, including local stations CBU, CBU-FM, CBUF-FM, CBUX-FM, CBUT-DT and CBUFT-DT. Renovations completed in 2009 added a 4,000-square-foot performance studio similar to Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio.
Designed by Paul Merrick for Merrick Architecture, the building opened in 1975. Renovations began in 2006 and were completed in 2009, adding community space for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Children's Festival and Folk Music Festival, plus a 4,000-square-foot performance studio modelled on Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio. It is the second-largest CBC production facility in English Canada.
The 2006–2009 expansion added community space that houses the offices of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International Children's Festival and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. The same renovation created a 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) performance studio modelled on Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio.
The centre occupies a building at 700 Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver, near the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and Robson Square. It is a working broadcast facility rather than a public attraction, so there are no tours or visitor hours; the 2006–2009 expansion added community space for festival offices and a 4,000-square-foot performance studio.
CBC Radio 3, the national satellite radio network, operates from this building rather than from Toronto. The same Hamilton Street complex also serves as one of the originating studios for The National, the CBC's nightly national newscast.
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