The history of radio broadcasting and its role as a presentor of news, in near real time, can be laid at the feet of the BBC and the CBC . The difference of on the spot reporting with the actual background noises of the events being reported was something new. In many cases, even early in the war, the reports were aired within days or even hours of the event. In our world of live coverage of events of the world and even live coverage of the combat in the middle east, it is difficult to remember that the CBC and BBC had reporters and technicians in the field dragging along " portable" recording equipment that cut record. This entire process is discribed in the CANADA AT WAR article below.
