''Webnation'' is a television show about technology that is aired on

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in Toronto, Canada. It features technology news,

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s, reviews and trends. The program first aired on October 14, 2009, and replaces the talk television show ''

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''. The show is hosted weekly by New Media Specialist

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and CP24 Web Journalist

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History

In January 2007,

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(CP24's former parent company) announced that it would launch a weekly program on CP24, which became popular as a vodcast. Originally titled ''Inside Popnology'', the CHUM Television-produced program was renamed ''Webnation''. MacArthur resigned in October to go for freelance projects, feeling she was being asked to target too old an audience, and wanted to pursue two projects in the United States. The station convinced her to stick around for two more months, after Rogers Communications promised her show would be weekly on the Citytv network and on G4techTV Canada, reformatted, as of January 2008 as Webnation V2. (CTV's parent company, CTVglobemedia, bought CHUM Limited in June 2007, with the exception of the

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network, which was sold to

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). CP24 was informed on January 4, 2008, that the show would be cancelled for the budgetary reasons. Just before the announcement, the program was named the "Top New Podcast Award for 2007" by iTunes.

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announced the return of ''Webnation'' on the CP24 schedule effective October 14, 2009.

External links

http://www.cp24.com/webnation
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