''World Report'' is a Canadian radio

news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the tes ...

program, which airs weekdays at 5, 6, 7 and 8 AM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 6, 7, 8 and 9 AM, 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 ...

. It currently lasts 10 minutes and focuses on major national and international news, allowing the local and regional programming during those timeslots to primarily focus their content on their own regions. The program's current weekday anchor as of November 21, 2022 is

Marcia Young Marcia Young (née Williams) is a Canadian broadcast journalist, who is the current weekday anchor of '' World Report'', the national morning newscast on CBC Radio. Early life Young was born in Toronto, but spent her early childhood in Jamaica wh ...

, and the weekend anchor is John Northcott. The programme began in 1958 as ''The World at Eight'' and was called ''The World at Seven'', ''The World at Eight'' or ''The World at Nine'', depending on the hour and time zone in which it was heard, until October 1982 when it was renamed ''World Report''. Past hosts included Rex Loring, Judy Maddren, Russ Germain, Peter Armstrong, David Common and Nil Köksal.Kyle Duggan
"Politicos on the move: CBC World Report gets new host"
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iPolitics ''iPolitics'' is a Canadian digital newspaper, which covers stories in Canadian politics. The site was launched in 2010 by founding editor and publisher James Baxter, and offers daily coverage of political news, a quarterly print magazine, politic ...

'', March 2, 2018. The program was originally broadcast on both

and

CBC Radio 2 CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards a ...

, but was removed from Radio 2's schedule in 2007. From its inception until 1982, the theme music that ran as a sound bed under the headlines consisted of a series of radio beeps meant to emulate the sound transmitted by

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