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COMMENTARY: 70th anniversary of television on P.E.I.

July 1, 2026 is a milestone for local broadcasting on P.E.I. as it marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of television.

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CFCY-TV signed on the airwaves on July 1, 1956, fulfilling the personal dream of Keith Rogers who had established commercial radio locally, with the licensing of CFCY in 1924. His untimely death in 1954 had meant that plans to create a P.E.I.-based TV station would fall to his wife and children who rose to that challenge — completing the job in 1956.

His daughter Betty and son-in-law Bob Large took the lead, supported by Betty’s sister........

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