''CBC Radio Overnight'' is a Canadian radio programming block, which airs nightly on

CBC Radio One CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent of Ca ...

from 1:00 a.m. to 5:30 am (or 6:00 a.m., depending on the station)."Oddly exhilarating radio in the middle of the night". ''

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'', May 15, 1996. The program airs only on CBC Radio One's regional outlets; it does not air on the nationwide

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service. The program, hosted by Jeff Goodes, presents a variety of information programs from international broadcasters around the world. At the top of each hour, a regular CBC news update is aired, lasting four and a half minutes. Previous hosts of the program included Cathy Haag, Bernie MacNamee, and Pep Philpott. However, apart from the news updates, the program's content consists primarily of complete programs produced by the CBC or other public broadcasters; the host's main role is to voice interstitial announcements of the next program coming to air.

History

The program premiered on May 1, 1995, with its programs sourced from the new World Radio Network. Prior to the program's launch, CBC Radio One signed off during the overnight hours. It had briefly experimented with a 24-hour schedule beginning in January 1991, with overnight programming consisting of repeats of its daytime programming, but this was discontinued by June of that year. ''CBC Radio Overnight'' may, however, be preempted in some markets when the CBC needs to temporarily shut down a local transmitter for maintenance, as overnight transmitter repairs are less disruptive than a daytime shutdown."Repairs silence CBC radio overnight: Insomniacs toss and turn as transmitter gets a boost". ''

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'', August 5, 2000.

Programming

Broadcasters whose programming has aired on ''Overnight'' included

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Radio Australia ABC Radio Australia, also known as Radio Australia, is the international broadcasting and online service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia's public broadcaster. Most programming is in English, with some in Tok ...

, Radio Prague,

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Radio Poland Radio Poland (until January 2007 as Radio Polonia, later "Polish Radio External Service" ( pl, Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy), in Polish legislation also named as Polskie Radio Program V) is the official international broadcasting station of Pola ...

Radio Romania International Radio România Internaţional ( ro, Radio România Internaţional, or ) is a Romanian radio station owned by the Romanian public radio broadcaster Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR, the national public radio in Romania) that broadcasts ...

, and

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. On October 27, 2009, CBC changed the program's schedule, with all programming on weeknights coming from the

and

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; with the dissolution of Radio Canada International in 2012, ''The Link'' was replaced with

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's ''

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'' and a repeat airing of the previous day's edition of CBC Radio's morning show '' The Current''. In 2013, the program added content from

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. The remainder of the block is filled with programs from Australia's

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and the

; some programming from

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and Deutsche Welle also airs on weekends.

References

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