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Metro Morning
Metro Morning is CBC Radio One's local morning program in Toronto, airing on CBLA-FM. The program airs from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. weekday mornings, and has frequently been Toronto's highest-rated radio program in its timeslot. The program is currently hosted by Ismaila Alfa. ''Metro Morning'' does not air on most of CBLA's rebroadcast transmitters outside of Toronto, which air the separate program ''Ontario Morning'' instead. However ''Metro Morning'' was broadcast on the Paris, Ontario transmitter CBLA-FM-2 to serve Waterloo Region and the westernmost parts of the Greater Toronto Area, until the start of that region's local morning programming, ''Morning Edition'', on March 11, 2013. History ''Metro Morning'' premiered in 1973 with the name ''Tomorrow Is Here''. It replaced ''I'm Here Till 9'' which had been hosted by Alex Trebek from 1971 until the end of 1972 when it was decided to replace it with a show that had a harder news format. George Rich hosted the morning show be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACTRA Award
The ACTRA Awards were first presented in 1972 to celebrate excellence in Canada's television and radio industries."ACTRA" '''', February 6, 2006. Organized and presented by the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, which represented performers, writers and broadcast journalists, the Nellie statuettes were presented annually until 1986."Canada's new TV award makes debut". '''', April 22, 1986. They wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Of The Week Club
The Record of the Week Club was a collaborative music project among musicians in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which took place in 2008."Local musician Mike Petkau produced and engineered Record of the Week Club". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', June 6, 2009. Organized by Mike Petkau of the band Les Jupes, the project brought together a group of musicians each week to write and record a song in 12 hours. Musicians involved in the project were selected by Petkau, but were not informed in advance of who they would be collaborating with."Record of the Week Club Starts Up in Winnipeg, Features Weakerthans' Samson" '''', August 26, 2008. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitoba
Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021, of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the Northern Region, Manitoba, north to dense Boreal forest of Canada, boreal forest, large freshwater List of lakes of Manitoba, lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and Southern Manitoba, southern regions. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the early 17th century, British and French North American fur trade, fur traders began arriving in the area and establishing settlements. The Kingdom of England secured control of the region in 1673 and created a territory named Rupert's Land, which was placed under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBW (AM)
CBW is the call sign of the CBC Radio One station in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The station broadcasts at 990 Hertz, kHz. CBW is a List of broadcast station classes, Class A Clear-channel station reserved for Canada under the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement allocations. CBW's studios are located on Portage Avenue in Downtown Winnipeg, while its transmitters are located near Beaudry Provincial Park in Springstein, Manitoba, Springstein. Due to the station's transmitter power and Manitoba's mostly flat land (with near-perfect ground conductivity), it reaches almost all of southern Manitoba during the day and much of the middle portion of North America at night. The station is simulcast on FM broadcasting, FM at 89.3 Hertz, MHz (with a transmitter atop Bell MTS Place Main, in downtown Winnipeg). History An early demonstration of radio by Lee de Forest took place in Winnipeg in April 1910, with extensive amateur and experimental interest after that date. Regularly schedule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Common
David Common is a Canadian journalist, best known as a correspondent and anchor for CBC News, and cohost with Asha Tomlinson and Charlsie Agro of CBC Television's consumer affairs newsmagazine ''Marketplace''. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Toronto, Ontario where he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute and York University. He studied International Security Issues at Stockholm University in Sweden. Common has worked for CTV News and CBC News. He began with the CBC at the London bureau, moving later to Toronto, Fredericton, Regina and eventually back to Toronto as a national reporter before being posted to Paris, France in 2006. From France, he travelled extensively in western and eastern Europe and north Africa, shooting and editing his own stories. In 2009, he was transferred to New York where he worked as the CBC's correspondent in that city, though he covered the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and VE Day 65th anniversary celebrations in the Netherlands. Common has fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piya Chattopadhyay
Piya Chattopadhyay () is a Canadian journalist, currently host of '' The Sunday Magazine'' on CBC Radio One. She is known for her work on CBC Radio,CBC’s Piya Chattopadhyay: ‘doing what I want to do’ by Constance Scrafield; at the Orangeville Citizen; published October 31, 2013; retrieved May 1, 2014 as well as on Fox News Radio, and . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Current (radio Program)
''The Current'' is a Canadian current affairs radio program which airs weekday mornings on CBC Radio One. It airs weekdays starting at 8:37 a.m. local time and runs until 10 a.m., and features interview sessions and radio documentaries that typically take up a half hour each. History The program premiered in 2002, and was hosted from its inception by investigative journalist Anna Maria Tremonti. Tremonti retired from the program in June 2019. Laura Lynch served as interim host until the end of 2019, and Matt Galloway took over as the program's new permanent host effective January 6, 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic until May 15, 2020, ''The Current's'' runtime was extended to the rest of the morning for most of the nation to cover that issue, replacing '' Q'' (although it still had its shorter evening broadcast slot) and the various half-hour 11:30 AM shows with the host of the former show, Tom Power appearing for selected arts stories related to the pandemic. In addition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here And Now (Toronto)
Here and Now is a daily Canadian radio show, which airs on CBLA-FM in Toronto, Ontario. Under CBC Radio One's policy of extended local programming in metropolitan markets, the program airs from 3 to 6 p.m. on CBLA's primary transmitter in Toronto, pre-empting the 3 to 4 p.m. hour of network programming. However, CBLA's rebroadcast transmitters elsewhere in Southern Ontario do not air the first hour of ''Here and Now'', remaining with the network programs and joining ''Here and Now'' in progress at 4 p.m. History The program debuted under its current title in 1997, concurrently with the network's rebranding from "CBC Radio" to "CBC Radio One".Peter Goddard, "New names, new shows for CBC Radio Both networks on FM dial: One for news, Two for entertainment". ''Toronto Star'', August 20, 1997. Its first host was slated to be Maureen Taylor, but she left the network for TVOntario before the program's launch, and the program debuted with Joan Melanson as host. Melanson took a maternity l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Galloway
Matt Galloway (born 1970/1971) is a Canadian radio personality, who debuted in January 2020 as the host of '' The Current'' on CBC Radio One. Previously, he was the host of ''Metro Morning'' on the network's Toronto station CBLA-FM from 2010 to 2019."Metro Morning's new voice, new view" '''', February 9, 2010. Galloway succeeded as host of ''Metro Morning'' effective March 1, 2010. Galloway has also been heard nationally as a host of '' |
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