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CBC Ottawa Production Centre

The CBC Ottawa Production Centre is an office and studio complex the serves as the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is located on Queen Street in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The building hosts the originating studios for both the CBC's English-language and French-language operations in the National Capital Region. The building was opened in 2004, and contains approximately 37,700 square metres (405,799 sq ft) of office space.

CBC Ottawa Production Centre

Completed

Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1K9

Canada

2004

11

CBO-FM

CBOFT-DT

Former CBC offices and studios in Ottawa[edit]

Previously, the CBC operated out of various buildings throughout the city. The radio division occupied the sixth floor of the Château Laurier hotel, while the television division operated out of the Graham Spry Building in the Westboro neighbourhood. The CBC's Parliamentary Bureau operated out of the National Press Building on Wellington Street and the Booth Building on Sparks Street. The CBC head office previously occupied the Edward Drake Building in Ottawa south, but budgetary cutbacks in the 1980s and 1990s led to the sale of that building and to a drastic downsizing of the head office staff. Prior to the opening of the Production Centre, the remaining head office staff shared space with the television operations in the Westboro building.

Canadian Broadcasting Centre

CBC Ottawa

View of the CBC Ottawa Building from street level on Sparks Street

View of the CBC Ottawa Building from above, showing the terracing of the upper floors facing Sparks Street