Between the late 1910s and the early 1930s, commercial broadcasters helped transform the radio craze sweeping Canada into a new mass communication industry. Starting with experimental broadcasts by station XWA (later CFCF), whose studios were located here, French- and English-language radio brought news, debates, concerts, and sporting events into the homes of Canadians, changing the way they consumed information and entertainment. As radio broadcasting continued to expand in the 1930s, privately owned stations provided some of the initial infrastructure for national radio and helped shape the new public broadcasting system.