McCurdy

McCurdy Radio Industries was founded by broadcaster F.W. McCurdy in Toronto in 1953 to supply the Canadian broadcasting industry with audio equipment built to broadcast-grade standards. By the 1970s, McCurdy had grown into one of North America's leading broadcast-audio manufacturers, operating out of Toronto (engineering) and Danvers, Massachusetts (US sales), and shipping everything from compact DJ desks to 26-channel TV production consoles.

McCurdy's identity was broadcast — not music recording per se, but the overlapping world of news, announcer booths, DJ rooms, station control, TV audio booths, and the growing category of "TV production and recording" studios that needed real multi-track capability inside a broadcast facility. The SS 7700, the top of their 1970s line, explicitly targeted that overlap: a 26-channel modular console styled in wood veneer and engineered for both live TV audio and album-quality tape production.

CBC, Global Television, dozens of Canadian and US network affiliates, and independent TV and radio operators across North America standardised on McCurdy. The company transitioned into the digital broadcast era in the late 1980s and 1990s, was acquired by Euphonix briefly in 2005 as part of its film/broadcast expansion, then folded into AXIA / Telos Alliance intellectual property. The 1970s SS-series catalogues are a crisp snapshot of the last gasp of discrete-transistor, plug-in-module broadcast engineering before digital swept everything aside.