CHAK Radio Launches in Inuuvik

1960AD

1950–1983

CHAK Radio, launched in 1947 in Aktlarvik, relocates to Inuuvik and becomes part of CNC Northern Radio Service, offering Inuvialuktun content.

Nellie Cournoyea, station manager, and Edward Lennie, announcer, in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) studio, Inuuvik, NWT, 1970. Photo credit: Wilkinson Collection/NWT Archives/N-1979-051: 0464s.