LEISURE TIMES Ted Rogers, a Canadian electrical engineer, developed the battery-less radio (worked through electrical current) and opened CFRB (Canadian Frequency Rogers Battery-less) from Toronto; Most programs listened to came from the US (80% of the shows); CBC (Canadian Broadcasting System) was created in 1936 in response to concerns that too much American content was heard on Canadian radio (Aird Report) First Canadian program was Hockey Night in Canada with Foster Hewitt, occurring on March 22, 1923;