''CBC Wednesday Night'' was a weekly anthology series which aired on

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from 1947 until the 1970s. The program featured a mix of music, plays, operas, documentaries, and news, and typically ran for around three hours without commercials. It was billed as being "produced primarily for the discriminating listener", and drew comparisons to the

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. The series was critically acclaimed, receiving awards from the Ohio State University Institute for Education by radio "for its courageous experiments with radio themes, techniques and writing, and for the excellence of its music and production." Because of its reputation for high-brow entertainment, it also attracted some controversy to the CBC, which was sometimes criticized for the "arrogance" of its cultural programming. It was created under the supervision of Harry Boyle.''The CBC in question'' ive part series originally broadcast in 19861996, , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto. The show's time slot later moved and it was rebranded ''Sunday Night'', and finally ''Tuesday Night'', before ending in 1976.Macmillan, K. 2019, ''Broadcasting'', English ed. edn, Historica Canada, Toronto.

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