Afghanada
''Afghanada'' is a Canadian radio drama which aired on CBC Radio One and Sirius Satellite Radio. The 103 episode series began on November 3, 2006, and concluded its sixth and final season on December 30, 2011.
Overview
The half-hour episodes were ...
The Age of Persuasion
''The Age of Persuasion'' is a Canadian radio series which aired on CBC Radio One for 107 episodes over five seasons between 2006 and 2011, and also broadcast on Chicago public radio station WBEZ. A sequel to the earlier '' O'Reilly on Advertisin ...
The Arts Tonight
''The Arts Tonight'' was a Canadian radio programme that aired weeknights from 10:00 to 10:40 p.m. on CBC Radio 2.
It debuted in 1988 with host Shelagh Rogers and covered theatre, dance, books, music and visual arts in Canada in a magazine ...
Backbencher
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Canada Live
''Canada Live'' is a Canadian radio program aired on both CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 since 2007. It debuted on March 19, 2007 on CBC Radio 2,"Radio Two's new gig". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 19, 2007. and airs concert performances in a vari ...
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Canada Live
''Canada Live'' is a Canadian radio program aired on both CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 since 2007. It debuted on March 19, 2007 on CBC Radio 2,"Radio Two's new gig". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 19, 2007. and airs concert performances in a vari ...
CHUM Chart
The CHUM Chart was a ranking of top 30 (and, until August 1968, the top 50) songs on Toronto, Ontario radio station CHUM AM, from 1957 to 1986, and was the longest-running Top 40 chart in the world produced by an individual radio station. On Janua ...
Cross Country Checkup
''Cross Country Checkup'' is a Canada-wide open-line radio show that airs Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One. The program has been hosted by Ian Hanomansing since September 2020; he was initially announced as an interim host for the 2020–21 se ...
Day 6
''Day 6'' is a Canadian radio program hosted by Brent Bambury, which airs Saturdays on CBC Radio One."Saturday morning guy; Saint John native Brent Bambury hosts new CBC radio show 'Day 6'". ''The Telegraph-Journal
The ''Telegraph-Journal'' i ...
Definitely Not the Opera
''Definitely Not the Opera'' (or simply ''DNTO'') was a magazine-style radio program focusing on aspects of pop culture and storytelling, that aired on CBC Radio One on Saturday afternoons from 1994 until 2016. The show's running time varied ove ...
Doc Mailloux
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* ''Doc'' (2001 TV series), a 2001–2004 PAX series
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The Doc Project
''The Doc Project'' was a Canadian podcast and radio program, which aired weekly on CBC Radio One.Double Exposure
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The Entertainers
''The Entertainers'' is a one-hour American variety show which aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 through March 27, 1965.
Produced by Joe Hamilton, the series featured three hosts:
Hamilton's then-wife Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Caterina ...
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Finkleman's 45s
Finkleman's 45s was a Canadian radio show, which aired Saturday evenings from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (half an hour later in Newfoundland) on CBC Radio One starting on October 5, 1985 and running until June 25, 2005. In the show Danny Finkleman pla ...
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Frantic Times
''Frantic Times'' is a Canadian comedy album, performed by The Frantics comedy troupe. The original LP was released in 1984, and was reissued as a CD with additional tracks by Deep Shag Records in 2003. The album is wholly made up of sketches and ...
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Freestyle
Freestyle may refer to:
Brands
* Reebok Freestyle, a women's athletic shoe
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* Coca-Cola Freestyle, a vending machine
* ICD Freestyle, a paintball marker
* Abbott FreeStyle, a blood glucose monitor by Abbott La ...
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Fuse
Fuse or FUSE may refer to:
Devices
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Gilmour's Albums
Gilmour's Albums was one of the longest-running radio shows on CBC Radio, and was hosted by former newspaper reporter Clyde Gilmour.
The show started in 1956, and its format consisted of selections of music, hand-picked by Gilmour, many from his ...
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Global Village
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The Happy Gang
''The Happy Gang'' was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio lunchtime variety show that ran from 1937 to 1959. During the Golden Age of Radio and well into the 1950s, it was one of Canada's most popular programs. In its heyday, it had about ...
High Definition
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Visual technologies
*HD DVD, discontinued optical disc format
*HD Photo, former name for the JPEG XR image file format
*HDV, format for recording high-definition video onto magnetic tape
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Inside the Music
''Inside the Music'' is a Canadian radio program, which began airing on CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 in 2007. Hosted by Patti Schmidt, the program airs documentaries about musicians, frequently but not exclusively Canadians.
It covers the inspi ...
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The Inside Track
''The Inside Track'' was a Canadian radio series, which formerly aired on CBC Radio One. A documentary and interview series exploring social and cultural issues in the world of sports, the program was hosted by Mark Lee, Mary Hynes and Robin B ...
The Investigator
''The Investigator'' (1954) was a radio play written by Reuben Ship and first broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on May 30 of that year. The play lampooned the actions of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities ...
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The Irrelevant Show
''The Irrelevant Show'' was a half-hour radio sketch comedy show that aired on CBC Radio One.
Broadcast history
The show was launched in 2003, initially on Saturday afternoons during the third hour of ''Definitely Not the Opera'' (''DNTO''). Earl ...
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Jake and the Kid
''Jake and the Kid'' is a collection of short stories by W. O. Mitchell, originally published in 1961. Many stories in the series appeared in ''Maclean's'' prior to the book's publication. Mitchell also published a sequel volume, ''According to J ...
Laugh out Loud
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Live Audio Wrestling
''Live Audio Wrestling'' (also known as ''The LAW'') was a Canadian sports radio talk show hosted by "The Mouth" Dan Lovranski and Jason Agnew. The program primarily covered news and events surrounding professional wrestling (such as WWE) and mi ...
Madly Off in All Directions
''Madly Off in All Directions'' was a Canadian radio comedy show that aired for several years on CBC Radio One, featuring comedian Lorne Elliott. It formerly aired on Sunday afternoons at 1PM (1:30PM in Newfoundland and Labrador), as well as on Sa ...
Metro Morning
Metro Morning is CBC Radio One's local morning program in Toronto, airing on CBLA-FM. The program airs from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. weekday mornings, and has frequently been Toronto's highest-rated radio program in its timeslot. The program is c ...
The National Playlist
''The National Playlist'' was a Canadian radio show, which aired weekdays at 11:30 a.m. and Saturday evenings at 9 p.m. on CBC Radio One in 2005 and 2006."A reason to tune in; CBC Radio One's National Playlist is getting Canadians talking (and ...
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National Research Council Time Signal
The ''National Research Council Time Signal'' is Canada's longest running radio program. Heard every day since November 5, 1939, shortly before 13:00 Eastern Time across the CBC Radio One network, it lasts between 15 and 60 seconds, ending exactl ...
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in Ne ...
Night Lines
''Night Lines'' was a Canadian radio series, which aired on CBC Stereo from 1984 to 1997.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . The show, which aired on Fri ...
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Nightstream
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O'Reilly on Advertising
''O'Reilly on Advertising'' (2005) was a popular show that was broadcast Saturday mornings on CBC Radio One, running from 11:30 – 12:00pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland). Its host was Terry O'Reilly, who is a radio/voiceover director with a ...
Ontario Today
Ontario Today is a Canadian talk radio program hosted by Rita Celli on CBC Radio One. The program is broadcast live from the studios of CBO-FM in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre weekdays, and it is carried on all CBC Radio One transmitters in Ont ...
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OverDrive
Overdrive may refer to:
Organizations
* OverDrive, Inc., a digital distributor of entertainment media
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* Overdrive PC, a subsidiary of Velocity Micro
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Podcast Playlist
''Podcast Playlist'' is a Canadian radio program and podcast, which airs weekly on CBC Radio One.The Point''
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Prime Time
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Quirks and Quarks
''Quirks & Quarks'' is a Canadian science news program, heard over CBC Radio One of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Created by CBC Producer Diana Filer and airing since October 8, 1975, ''Quirks & Quarks'' is consistently rated among ...
Radio 2 Drive
''Drive'', formerly known as ''Radio 2 Drive'', is the afternoon program on the CBC Music radio network in Canada, launched September 2, 2008.
On air from 3:30 to 7:00 pm, it is hosted by Rich Terfry, also known as Buck 65. The program airs ...
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The Radio 2 Top 20
''CBC Music Top 20'', formerly ''Radio 2 Top 20'', is a Canadian radio record chart program, which airs across Canada on the CBC Music network.Radio Free Vestibule
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The Radio Show
''The Radio Show'' was a Canadian radio show, which aired on CBC Radio from 1983 to 1992. The show incorporated some aspects of a conventional radio talk show, filtered through the warped comedic sensibilities of host Jack Farr. John Doyle, "The Ra ...
RealTime
''RealTime'', also known as ''RealTime Arts'', was a free Australian arts magazine, published by Open City in print from 1994 until 2015 and online from 1996 to December 2017.
History
The free national arts magazine ''RealTime'', also known as ...
Rewind
Rewind may refer to:
General uses
* Rewind, the process of winding magnetic tape inside a cassette or a microfilm reel backwards to a previous point on the reel
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Search Engine
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The Sound Lounge
''The Sound Lounge'' was a Canadian radio show, which aired from 2007 to 2008 on CTVglobemedia's hot adult contemporary-formatted radio stations in Halifax, Toronto, Brockville, Peterborough, Kingston, Winnipeg, Calgary and Victoria.
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Sounds Like Canada
''Sounds Like Canada'' was a Canadian radio program, which aired weekday mornings on CBC Radio One from 2002 to 2008. Until the end of May 2008, the program was hosted by the award-winning broadcaster Shelagh Rogers, and in the summers by a rotat ...
The Story from Here
''The Story from Here'' is a Canadian radio program on CBC Radio One, which presents a weekly compilation of human interest stories and interviews from the network's various local and regional programs. The program's production location and host f ...
Studio Sparks
''Studio Sparks'' was a Canadian radio program, which aired weekday afternoons from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM on CBC Radio 2.The Sunday Edition
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Sunday Night Sex Show
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Tapestry
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Tapestry
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This Country in the Morning
''This Country in the Morning'' was a nationally broadcast Canadian radio program, which aired on CBC Radio from 1971 to June 27, 1975. Peter Gzowski was the host from 1971 to 1974.
After the show
During the summer of 1975, the show was replaced ...
This Is That
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Variety Tonight
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The Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe is an hour-long radio variety show hosted by Stuart McLean that was broadcast on CBC Radio and was syndicated to approximately 80 U.S. public radio stations through Public Radio International. It aired on Sunday at noon EST and ...
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Vinyl Tap
''Vinyl Tap'' started as a Canadian radio show hosted by Randy Bachman, musician alumnus of the famous Canadian rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
The show ran on CBC Radio from 2005 until 2021, when it was cancelled. In F ...
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Warren on the Weekend
''Warren on the Weekend'' was a syndicated Canadian talk radio program hosted by Peter Warren from 1998 to 2006. It was broadcast on several AM radio stations, mainly in Western Canada, on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific Time ...
White Coat, Black Art
''White Coat, Black Art'' is a Canadian radio documentary series on CBC Radio One, hosted by physician Brian Goldman that examines the business and culture of medicine from an insider's perspective. Its name is a reference to the white coats that ...
The World at Six
''The World at Six'' is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship dinner-hour radio news program, airing Monday to Friday from 6 to 6:28 p.m. local time on CBC Radio One except in Newfoundland where it begins at 6:30. The program was l ...
Writers and Company
''Writers & Company'', hosted by Eleanor Wachtel, is CBC Radio's flagship literary program, broadcast weekly across Canada on CBC Radio One and internationally through satellite radio, streaming and podcast. For more than 30 years, the program has ...
List of old-time radio people
Listed below are actors and personalities heard on vintage radio programs, plus writers and others associated with Radio's Golden Age.
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References
*Swartz, Jon D. & Robert C. Reinehr. ''Handbook of old-time radio: a comprehensive guide to golden age radio listening and collecting.'' Scarecrow Press, 1993. {{ISBN, 0-8108-2590-2
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