''Undercurrents'' was a Canadian

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television program that was hosted by

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. It focused on media, marketing and technology."Wendy Mesley returns with new series". '' The Gazette'', June 25, 1995.

Overview

The series, which debuted in 1995, primarily concentrated on investigative and documentary reports about media, marketing and technology, such as examining media coverage of controversial issues. Its debut episode drew 800,000 viewers despite having received little advance publicity and having been scheduled so hastily that it wasn't even listed in that week's ''

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'' listings; the episode examined the role of video in criminal trials, using the

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trial as its hook. Mesley was interviewed about the program's cancellation in 1997 by Scan Magazine. Mesley won two

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s for Best Host or Interviewer of a News or General Information Series for her work on ''Undercurrents'', in 1999 and 2001. In 2001, ''Undercurrents'' was folded into the new series '' CBC News: Disclosure'', cohosted by Mesley and

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. The new show did not continue to discuss the media or technology; instead, the media analysis theme was picked up by a different new CBC series, ''MediaWatch''."Lots of buzz for media show: Chattering classes brace for CBC show about -- themselves". ''

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'', August 3, 2002.

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