''Mornings'', titled ''Weekend Mornings'' on Saturday and Sunday, is the morning program on the

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radio network in

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. The program features a cross-genre selection of selected new and old Canadian and international singer/songwriter, rock and pop tracks. It also presents anecdotes, overnight news stories, and background information on the music. The program airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. seven days a week, and premiered in 2008 as part of the network's revamp. Known as ''Radio 2 Morning'' and ''Radio 2 Weekend Morning'' until the network's rebranding as CBC Music in 2018, it was originally hosted by Tom Allen weekdays and

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weekends. Allen left the program in 2009 to become host of ''Shift'', and was succeeded by

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as weekday host; in 2011, Mackowycz left the program and was succeeded by

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. Johnson left as weekend host in December 2013, and was succeeded

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in January. In August 2016, the CBC announced that Power would be leaving the program to become host of the network's entertainment magazine show '' Q''; around the same time, Schlanger left the program to take a job as contributing producer for the

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music series '' World Cafe'' in the United States. In September, the network announced

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as the new weekday host, and

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as the new weekend host. Douris left in September 2019, and was succeeded by Saroja Coelho. In 2021, after Tetteh-Wayoe moved to the network's new weekday evening program ''The Block'', the weekend show was taken over by Daniel Greaves on Saturdays and

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on Sundays. The program's production staff is based at the

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, although Power, who is originally from St. John's, occasionally hosted from the CBC's facilities in that city.

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