Whoops!

CBC-TV went on the air for the first time in Montreal on Sept. 6, 1952. It showed programs in English and French, and one bilingual program. But when it launched in Toronto on Sept. 8, 1952, things didn’t go quite as smoothly. Just before air time, someone put the image of the station’s logo in the wrong way. The first thing Toronto viewers saw was the text Channel 6 Toronto CBLT . . . upside down.