''Venture'' was a weekly

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business news television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1985 to 2007. The show aired both news reports and documentary features on news and issues in business and finance.Hugh Anderson, "An unprejudiced look at business". ''

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'', January 9, 1985. The program launched in January 1985, initially airing on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. In its second season it was shifted to Sunday nights, airing after the network's Sunday night newscast ''Sunday Report''. It remained in that time slot until ''Sunday Report'' was expanded into the full one-hour '' CBC News: Sunday Night'' in 2004, at which time it moved to 7 p.m. Sunday evening. Its original host was Patrick Watson, who left in 1987 to work on the documentary series ''The Struggle for Democracy''. He was succeeded by Robert Scully, whose concurrent hosting of the news talk show ''Scully Rencontre'' on Télévision de Radio-Canada made him the first person in Canadian television history to simultaneously host programs on both the English and French services of the CBC. Scully hosted until 1997, when he was succeeded by

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, who hosted for the remainder of the show's run. ''Venture'''s special features included a recurring documentary series called ''Back to the Floor'', in which a

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works at an

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within their own company for a day. ''Back to the Floor'' was a Gemini Award nominee for Best Reality Program or Series at the

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in 2004; the following year, the program won the award for the episode "The Town Doctor". In the show's final season, Bucker was also concurrently host of ''

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'', CBC's new reality series centred on entrepreneurship. On April 4, 2007, CBC announced the cancellation of ''Venture''.Jim Bawden, "CBC cleans house; Hallmark shows Country Canada, Venture and Opening Night among casualties as the people's network turns to reality programming, sitcoms and Elizabethans". ''

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'', April 5, 2007. The final episode was broadcast on September 2, 2007.

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