''Daybreak Montreal'' is a daily, early morning, English-language
Canadian
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radio program, broadcast by
CBME-FM
CBME-FM is an English-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec.
Owned and operated by the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it broadcasts on 88.5 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radia ...
, the
CBC Radio One station in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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.
In 2006, Dave Bronstetter stepped down after hosting the program for 11 years;
he was replaced by Mike Finnerty.
Finnerty, who was 41 in 2007, was born in
Esterhazy, Saskatchewan
Esterhazy is a town in the south-eastern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, south-east of Yorkton along Highways 22 and 80. The town is in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Belt No. 183.
History
Esterhazy is reputed to be n ...
. He first joined CBC Radio in Quebec City as a young reporter in 1989, moving to CBC Radio Montreal in 1992.
Finnerty worked in London for the BBC World Service for ten years, before becoming host of Daybreak.
was hired as host in 2009. Her dismissal in 2010 was the subject of some controversy in Montreal.
See also
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CBC Radio One local programming
References
External links
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