Heritage: Original CTV Building on Somerset

Heritage: The original CTV building in Ottawa is now an integrated cancer treatment center.  On my way to the Plant Pool, I'd often notice this building on the corner.  On the one day I decided to take a picture of it, and just then a film crew was walking out after concluding their interview. CTV was celebrating it's 50th year in 2011. 

The following quotes have been taken from the current CTV Ottawa web-site, from the About US section.

"CTV Ottawa's call letters are CJOH and is owned and operated by Bell Media Inc. It provides outstanding news and entertainment programming to eastern Ontario and west Quebec. The station went on the air for the first time March 12, 1961. At the time our studios were temporarily housed in a warehouse on Bayswater Ave. at Somerset St. Five months later we moved to 1500 Merivale Road.

CTV History

On March 12, 1961 at 12 noon, a significant moment in Canadian broadcast history took place when CJOH TV began broadcasting on Channel 13. Until then, television owners in the Ottawa area and West Quebec had two choices - CBC's English or French language service. As a founding member of the CTV Network, CJOH gave this region an alternative.
In those early days, all programming was live and originated from the temporary basement studios located next to the D. Kemp Edwards Lumber Yards at Bayswater and Somerset. Temporary, because construction on their state-of-the-art facility on Merivale Road, in what was then nearly rural Nepean was well underway. The E. L. Bushnell Television Company, headed by former long-time CBC senior executive Ernest L. Bushnell, owned CJOH. "Bush", as he was known, was indeed the proud "father" of CJOH when the studios and office complex at 1500 Merivale Road officially opened on October 21, 1961.

Read more: http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/about/about-us-1.815698#ixzz2SI8mgScg