''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 o ...

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 Saroja Coelho since late-April 2024, 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, Pep Philpott, and Jeff Goodes. 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 prerecorded 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 Sweden, Radio Australia,

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Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW (), is a German state-funded television network, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the Federal Government of Germany. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite tele ...

, Radio Poland,

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, and

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. On October 27, 2009, CBC changed the block'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 '' The World'' 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 ABC Radio National and the

; some programming from

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and Deutsche Welle also airs on weekends.

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