''RealTime'' was a Canadian radio show, which aired Saturday evenings on CBC Stereo from 1994 to 1997."CBC's RealTime an eight-hour mind and music link: Saturday night show melds high tech, talk and tunes". ''

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'', September 17, 1994. Hosted by Leora Kornfeld,"Nighttime is her RealTime: Leora Kornfeld defies the laws of nature in hosting CBC Stereo's alternative music show". ''

'', January 28, 1997. the series was a pop-culture magazine and interview show, and served as the CBC's first major foray into

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by integrating Internet technologies such as

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, IRC and

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into its program format."Radio shows keep tuned in to listeners via Internet". ''

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'', February 15, 1996.

Format

The show was produced live for eight hours each Saturday night, but aired in a "rolling" format in which individual stations aired only the portions of the program between 7 p.m. and midnight local time. The program's main feature segments were scheduled to air during the time block when it was airing simultaneously across the entire country, with the regionalized blocks devoted primarily to music and interactive listener chat. The program also sometimes incorporated comedy segments, most notably the short-run comedy series ''

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''.

Web integration

Listeners could interact with the show either by Internet or telephone as it aired: asking questions of an interview guest, requesting songs, offering feedback on the show, participating in on-air polls, and so forth. The show was the first in the world to stream a live call-in radio show simultaneously on FM radio and the Internet using

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in 1995. On at least one occasion, the program staff received advance feedback about the show before it aired, when an Internet user found the planned program logs for the upcoming episode and e-mailed the show to request that they not play a song he hated. The show had one of the first web sites on CBC, created by

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. The show's production team included executive producer Robert Ouimet, senior producer Chris Straw, producer Thomas Hunt and technician Loc Dao."Working underground: The lowdown on people with jobs down below". ''

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'', August 31, 1995. Loc became a producer on the show in 1995.

Ending

The last episode of ''Realtime'' aired on June 28, 1997. In the fall, Kornfeld and David Wisdom, formerly the host of '' Night Lines'', debuted as cohosts of the new series '' RadioSonic'',"CBC Radio changes name and schedule Renaming of two networks reflects massive restructuring of programming." '' The Globe and Mail'', August 20, 1997 which itself later evolved into today's

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References

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External links

Transcript of a ''Realtime'' interview
with

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Transcript of a ''Realtime'' interview
with

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