50 years of CBC Radio in Iqaluit

On Feb. 6, 1961, the CBC's Northern Service started broadcasting on CFFB, in what was then known as Frobisher Bay, N.W.T., in Canada's eastern Arctic.

Frobisher Bay is now known as Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut. CBC Radio One continues to broadcastfrom Iqaluit today, providing audiencesacross Nunavut with programming in English and Inuktitut.

The following 50th anniversaryaudio clips are from Qulliq, CBC Radio's morning show in Iqaluit, on Feb. 7, 2011.

Left photo: Inuk broadcaster Jacob Partridge on the air at CFFB in 1964. (Charles Gimpel Collection/Library and Archives Canada/e002394521)