VE9EC was a Canadian experimental television station, based in

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, which broadcast between October 9, 1931 and 1935, showing

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red pictures. It was owned by La Presse and CKAC radio station. VE9EC was a mechanical television broadcast of 60 to 150

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at 41 MHz. VE9EC broadcast musical programmes and a radio play, '' La paix chez soi'', starring Henri Letondal, until 1933. Other broadcasting experiments with mechanical television took place, in particular by the Montreal department store

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also in 1933.

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Defunct Canadian television stations Experimental television stations Television channels and stations established in 1931 1931 establishments in Quebec 1935 disestablishments in Canada Television stations in Montreal Television channels and stations disestablished in 1935 Defunct mass media in Quebec {{Canada-tv-station-stub