 Key broadcast successes included the implementation of Sony's digital routing system at the CBC Toronto Broadcasting Centre and the use of the Digital Betacam SX as the primary tool to record and broadcast the 1996 Olympics.Sony of Canada Ltd. milestones

1939

General Distributors (Gendis) founded in Calgary

1955

General Distributors (Tokyo) Ltd is founded

1956

Canadian Albert D. Cohen brings Sony's transistor radios to Canada.T.