* 1947 – John Stocker, Canadian voice actor

* 1947 – Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and politician

* 1947 – Marc Messier, Canadian actor

* 1881 – Albert Henderson, Canadian footballer ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat

* 1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 provided for a distinct Canadian Citizenship, automatically conferred upon most individuals born in Canada, with some exceptions, and defined the conditions under which one could become a naturalized citizen.

* 2003 – Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1947 )

* 1947 – Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Mickey Redmond, Canadian hockey player

* 1947 – Rex Hagon, Canadian actor and host

* 1947 – Michel Lamarche, Canadian professional wrestler

In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1947 – Andrea Martin, Canadian actress

* 1947 – Linda Thorson, Canadian actress

* 1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Ian Millar, Canadian equestrian

* 1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Steve Mahoney, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter

* 1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician ( d. 2000 )

* 1947 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician

* 1947 – Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

debuted June 8, 1947 on the Mutual Broadcasting System, and its last episode was broadcast June 25, 1949, on the ABC.

Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947 to September 11, 1957.

On November 24, 1941, Sothern performed in the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Maisie Was a Lady, and the popularity of the film series led to her own radio program, The Adventures of Maisie, broadcast on CBS from 1945 to 1947, on Mutual Broadcasting System in 1952 and in syndication from 1949 to 1953.

In 1947, when Low was federal leader of the Social Credit party, he used a national Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) broadcast to lambaste " the international power maniacs who aim to destroy Christianity " and the " international gangsters who are day-to-day scheming for world revolution.

The license for what is now WDTN was granted to the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation of Cincinnati, which was a subsidiary of the Aviation Corporation ( later known as Avco ), on March 3, 1947.

In 1947, he created what was arguably his finest radio effort, Quiet, Please, which began over the Mutual Broadcasting System network but which later moved to ABC.

He joined the J. Arthur Rank Organisation in 1947, working there for two years before moving to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he worked between 1949 and 1956.

" From 1947 to 1974 his profession has been mainly journalism having worked on the editorial staffs of the Hindustan Times and The Statesman, as a Class I officer in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India ; and as editor in the American Embassy's Information Service.

On September 6, 1946, the station received a commercial license as WBKB ( meaning Balaban and Katz Broadcasting ) on channel 4, the first commercial station outside the Eastern Time Zone, airing some of the earliest CBS programing, including the debut in 1947 of Junior Jamboree ( renamed Kukla, Fran and Ollie after moving to NBC in 1948 ).

In 1947, after partition, he joined the Department of Information and Broadcasting as an additional song organiser.

WRFD began broadcasting in 1947 and was owned and operated by Peoples Broadcasting Company, an affiliate of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company which is now known as Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company ( the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation was Nationwide's founding member ).

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation ( PBC ) was formed on 14 August 1947, the day of Pakistani independence.

Storer Broadcasting signed on WJBK-FM in the summer of 1947.

Broadcasting was resumed in 1947 at a frequency of 640 kHz AM from studios in the basement of Koons Hall.

The 94. 7 FM frequency signed on in 1947 as WAAT-FM, and was owned by the Bremer Broadcasting Company along with sister station WAAT ( 970 AM, now WNYM ).

Both stations were owned by Field Enterprises, Inc. from 1947 until sold in 1952 to the Mount Hood Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation.

Capital Cities ' origins are traced to 1947, when the Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company received a license for WROW radio in Albany, New York.

A new organization, the Rensselaer Broadcasting Association, began programming WHAZ's whole schedule in the spring of 1947, deploying a staff entirely from RPI's student body and working with the still-existent Campus Review.

WNEM's history can be traced back as early as April 17, 1947, when the station first signed on the air as AM 1210 WKNX, owned by Lake Huron Broadcasting.

In 1947 its affiliation was changed to the American Broadcasting System.