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Cross Country Checkup
''Cross Country Checkup'' is a Canada-wide open-line radio show that airs Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One. The program has been hosted by Ian Hanomansing since September 2020; he was initially announced as an interim host for the 2020–21 season while previous host Duncan McCue was on an eight-month sabbatical, although his time with the program continued into 2022 before he was announced as the permanent host in June of that year.David Friend"CBC makes changes at ‘The National’ ahead of free streaming channel launch" ''Toronto Star'', June 30, 2022. Beginning in 2021, the program has also been simulcast on CBC News Network. Every week, the show features a lively discussion on an issue of national interest or importance and invites listeners to call in with their opinions and thoughts. The topics are usually related to Canadian politics. In addition to McCue, the show has commentators who are experts or involved in the issue. They are interviewed by McCue and answer que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call-in
In broadcasting, a phone-in or call-in is a programme format in which viewers or listeners are invited to air their live comments by telephone, usually in respect of a specific topic selected for discussion on the day of the broadcast. On radio (especially talk radio), it is common for an entire programme to be dedicated to a phone-in session. On television, phone-in's are often part of a wider discussion programme: a current example in the UK is the "Jeremy Vine" TV show. The concept dates to the early radio era: a December 1924 BBC 5NG Nottingham phone-in programme is described in a 1925 Radio Times article: "listeners ... enjoyed the novelty of hearing their own voices taking part". A prior attempted phone-in to a BBC 2LO London programme "led to such a rush on the telephones that the Post Office had to intervene". Speech based Talk Radio UK was launched in 1995, with much of its programming featuring phone-ins. It also introduced the notion of the shock jock to the UK, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Shapiro
Rebecca "Betty" Kronman Shapiro (September 26, 1907 – March 18, 1989) was an American women's rights and Jewish activist from Washington, D.C. A long-time member of B'nai B'rith Women, Shapiro became its international president in 1968. She was also a three-time delegate to the United Nations conference on women, as well as chairing a host of civic organizations serving Washington, D.C. In 1998, she was inducted into District of Columbia Commission on Women's Hall of Fame. Early life Rebecca Kronman, called Betty, was born in Washington, D.C., on September 26, 1907 to Nathan Kronman, a grocer, and Monya "Mollie" (Bogorod) Kronman, who was active in a number of different Jewish community organizations."Shapiro, Betty Kronman (1907–1989)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages, edited by Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, vol. 2, Yorkin Publications, 2007, p. 1708. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2588821354/GVRL?u=wikipedia&sid=GVRL&xid=8ee26e93. Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International (RCI) is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Prior to 1970, RCI was known as the CBC International Service. The broadcasting service was also previously referred to as the ''Voice of Canada'', broadcasting on shortwave from powerful transmitters in Sackville, New Brunswick. "In its heyday", said ''Radio World'' magazine, "Radio Canada International was one of the world's most listened-to international shortwave broadcasters". However, as the result of an 80 percent budget cut, shortwave services were terminated in June 2012, and RCI became accessible exclusively via the Internet. It also reduced its services to five languages (in contrast with the 14 languages it used in 1990) and ended production of its own news service. On December 3, 2020, RCI announced that its staff was being reduced from 20 to 9 (in contrast to 200 employees in 1990) and that its English and French language sections would c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio List of NPR stations, stations in the United States. , NPR employed 840 people. NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. The organization's flagship shows are two drive time, drive-time news broadcasts: ''Morning Edition'' and the afternoon ''All Things Considered'', both carried by most NPR member stations, and among the List of most-listened-to radio programs, most popular radio p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Murphy
Rex Murphy (born March 1947) is a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters. He was the regular host of CBC Radio One's ''Cross Country Checkup'', a nationwide call-in show, for 21 years before stepping down in September 2015. He currently writes for the ''National Post'' and has a YouTube channel called ''RexTV''. Early life and education Murphy was born in 1947 in Carbonear, in the then-Dominion of Newfoundland. Like all British subjects born in Newfoundland prior to union with Canada in 1949, Murphy became a natural born Canadian citizen under the ''Newfoundland Terms of Union'' and an amendment to the ''Canadian Citizenship Act'', passed in 1949. Murphy grew up in Placentia, 105 kilometres west of St. John's, and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a degree in English in 1968. In 1968, he studied law for a year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, as a Rhodes sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Orr
Royal Orr is a Canadian former radio host, best known as the host of CBC Radio's ''Cross Country Checkup'' from 1992 to 1994. Originally a reporter for the network's bureau in Quebec City"Orr leaving CJAD to be Checkup host". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 17, 1992. and an activist with the anglophone Quebecer lobby group Alliance Quebec, he became the organization's president in 1987. In 1988, he sued ''Le Journal de Montréal'' and Télé-Métropole for libel, when both organizations falsely reported that he was the "prime suspect" after the organization's offices were destroyed by arson. The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court. He left Alliance Quebec in 1989 to become a host for Montreal commercial radio station CJAD, remaining with that station until joining public broadcaster CBC's ''Cross Country Checkup'' in 1992. He transitioned from ''Checkup'' in 1994 to become host of ''Daybreak'', the local morning program on the network's Montreal station CBM. He left the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Downie
Peter Downie is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and academic. For 25 years, Downie worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. On CBC Television, he was best known as the co-anchor of ''Midday'' from 1985 to 1989 and the host of '' Man Alive'' from 1989 to 1993. On CBC Radio he hosted ''Cross Country Checkup'' in the early 1980s and the CBC Ontario weekend morning programme ''Fresh Air'' for a season in the 1990s and has been a guest host on ''As It Happens'' and '' Morningside''. In 1994, he conceived of and became the first host of ''Tapestry'', a weekly CBC radio program featuring documentaries and interviews on spirituality. In the late 1990s, Downie joined Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...'s Department of Journalism as a professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Goldhawk
Dale Goldhawk (born ) is a Canadians, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and investigative reporter. Goldhawk graduated from the journalism program at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1967 and began his career as a reporter for the ''Toronto Telegram''. He moved to radio station CIAO (AM), CHIC in 1971 where he served as news director. In 1974 he moved to television as a reporter for the fledgling Global Television Network. In 1980, he became a local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC reporter in Toronto. ''Goldhawk Fights Back'' began as a consumer advocacy segment on CBLT (TV), CBLT's dinner hour newscast in the 1980s — ''Newshour''. He joined Leslie Jones as co-host of ''CBLT Morning'' between 1984 and 1986. He moved to national radio from 1986 to 1992 as host of CBC Radio's ''Cross-Country Checkup''. He was president of Alliance of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) and was also president of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta La Paix
Augusta La Paix is a former Canadian radio personality, best known as the original host and co-creator of ''Brave New Waves''.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, La Paix worked in Montreal as a freelance news reporter for CBC Radio and an occasional guest host of '' Morningside''. She was given ''Brave New Waves'' in 1984 after submitting a demo tape for a show on avant garde culture, featuring music by Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Klaus Nomi and Nina Hagen."Navigating the rock Brave New Waves". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 26, 1984. In an early interview with ''The Globe and Mail'', she told the newspaper that she was only a recent convert to underground music, having previously been primarily a fan of country music. She left ''Brave New Waves'' in 1985, after one season, and moved on to other roles with the CBC, including stints as host of ''Cross Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Grigsby
Wayne Grigsby (born 1947) is a Canadian screenwriter and producer, mainly for television. Career Grigsby, who comes from Calgary, Alberta, started primarily in arts and entertainment journalism. His goal had always been to write fiction. He had a script produced by Brian McKenna and Bernie Zukerman, which led to his becoming a screenwriter. Later, he formed Big Motion Pictures Inc. with David MacLeod. He also tried American TV with a failed pilot starring Kelly McGillis. Awards *2004 Margaret Collier Award Partial filmography Producer * ''North of 60'' (1992; TV series) * ''Dark Eyes'' (1995; TV series) * ''Black Harbour'' (1996, TV series) * ''A Guy and a Girl'' (2002; TV series) * '' Snakes & Ladders'' (2004; TV series) * ''Sex Traffic ''Sex Traffic'' is a two-part British-Canadian television thriller, written by Abi Morgan and directed by David Yates, that first broadcast on Channel 4 on 14 October 2004. The series, produced by Veronica Castillo and Derek Wax, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gray (broadcaster)
Elizabeth Gray is a Canadian radio broadcaster, who has been a host and documentary producer for CBC Radio. Previously a researcher on '' Cross-Country Checkup'' and a substitute host on ''This Country in the Morning'' and '' Morningside'', Gray took over from Barbara Frum as cohost of ''As It Happens ''As It Happens'' is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. Its 50th anniversary was celebrated on-air on November 16, 2018. It has bee ...'' in 1981. In a controversial decision by the show's producers, she was replaced by Dennis Trudeau in 1985. She subsequently hosted '' Sunday Morning'' for several years, and produced documentary reports for the network. More recently, with different producers in charge of ''As It Happens'', Gray has returned to the program as an occasional guest host. She was married to journalist John Gray. References Living people Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
