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24 unusual facts about CBC Television


AHL on CBC

The AHL on CBC is a television broadcast of American Hockey League games in Canada produced by CBC Sports and shown on CBC Television and CBC.ca.

Alannah Myles

Her song Black Velvet was one of four selected to be covered on the CBC Television reality television show Cover Me Canada.

Bill Guest

Bill Guest was best known as quizmaster of the Winnipeg edition of Reach for the Top from 1962–1985 and quizmaster of the national finals between 1969 and 1985 when the show aired on CBC Television.

David Secter

Secter subsequently released a second film in Canada, The Offering in 1966, and entered discussions with CBC Television to produce a drama series for the network.

Diane Van Deren

She was featured in the 2012 CBC documentary "The Perfect Runner" directed by documentary filmmaker Niobe Thompson for the Canadian television series "The Nature of Things".

Edmund Eagan

Eagan has worked on numerous other television productions, including CBC’s The Health Show, the TV program Curiosities and in the Man Alive documentary Beyond Belief.

Elicia MacKenzie

Elicia MacKenzie (born 1985) is a Canadian musical theatre actress who won the 2008 CBC Television contest How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?.

Erica Johnson

Erica Johnson (born October 9, 1964, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian broadcast journalist who hosts the TV series Marketplace on CBC Television.

Juliana Thiessen-Day

During the CBC television coverage of the federal election, live footage of Thiessen Day at Alliance campaign headquarters was shown.

Kary Osmond

Kary became a household name in 2009 when she was selected as the host of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s daytime cooking show, Best Recipes Ever.

Kyle Shewfelt

After his exit from the Olympics, Kyle became a guest commentator on artistic gymnastics for CBC Television's Olympic coverage.

Moez Masoud

The show was named "Khatawat Al-Shaitan" (Steps of Satan), and was predicted to be an exceptional success therefore was requested by many channels to broadcast, however, the rights went to five channels such as Abu Dhabi Al Oula, Al Emirat, CBC, CBC+2, alongside the broadcast on Nogoom FM, considered the most popular station in Egyptian radio.

Nick Peros

The premiere received extensive media coverage across North America with portions of the concert being broadcast nationally across Canada on CBC Television as part of CBC’s First Anniversary commemorations.

Peter Jordan

Peter Jordan (sometimes known as Rocki Rolletti) is best known for the work series It's a Living, which aired on CBC Television from 1989 to 2003.

René Simard

He hosted his own CBC Television series from 1977 to 1979, produced in Vancouver by Alan Thicke and featuring various international celebrity guests.

Samantha Taylor

Samantha Taylor (born 1958) was the host of the CBC Television music video program Video Hits from 1984 to 1989.

Shadowmation

Shadowmation is a relatively new technique, but has so far been used in several prominent kids TV shows, including Disney's The Book of Pooh, PBS' It's a Big, Big World, Bear in the Big Blue House and CBC Television and Discovery Kids' Wilbur.

Sidney M. Cohen

Through the 1980s and 90s, he produced and directed 21 different series including Midday for CBC Television, Test Pattern for MuchMusic, TimeChase a history quiz series, and Just Like Mom.

Tamer Shaaban

Shaaban spoke on CBC about his film, its role, and the uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak at the end of January of that year.

This Country in the Morning

After hosting 90 Minutes Live on CBC Television, Peter Gzowski returned to CBC radio as full-time host of Morningside on September 6, 1982.

WDAY-TV

It must conform its signal to protect CBC Television's Winnipeg station, CBWT, which took to the air on channel 6 a year after WDAY-TV signed on.

WPBN-TV

At the time, the only television station in that area had been private CBC Television affiliate CJIC-TV.

Zaib Shaikh

He is co-founder of the Whistler Theatre Project, and also writer and director of the CBC adaptation of Othello.

He is best known for his roles as Amaar Rashid, an imam in the CBC Television sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Jayesh in Metropia, an evening soap opera broadcast on Omni Television.


Almas Bawar Zakhilwal

He frequently appears as a current events commentator on various Canadian media outlets, including CBC Television, CTV, CPAC, Global National and TVOntario.

Anthropocentrism

In the 1985 CBC series "A Planet For the Taking", Dr. David Suzuki explored the Old Testament roots of anthropocentrism and how it shaped our view of non-human animals.

Don Jail

In 1952, the jail was the subject of the first ever television news report on the CBC Television English network when the Boyd Gang, a notorious group of bank robbers, broke out of the facility for the second time.

Franny's Feet

Its very first appearance was on Ask.com/television in September 2001; it later appeared on CBC Television on January 1, 2004, then began to air on Family the following September, and was introduced to PBS Kids Sprout in the U.S. beginning in June 2006.

Gilbert Blythe

In the CBC Television film adaptations of the 1980s, Gilbert Blythe is portrayed by Jonathan Crombie.

Jed MacKay

He began his career writing for TVOntario's long-running success Polka Dot Door, for which he was honoured with a Masterworks Award by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television in 2010, and CBC's Homemade Television, winner of the Children's Broadcast Institute prize for Best Children's Show.

Jim Pattison

On April 16, 2009 Jim Pattison announced that Save-On Foods had donated $100,000 to CBC Television in order to rent high definition trucks for away games during the Vancouver Canucks' 2009 1st round NHL playoff series versus the St. Louis Blues.

Julie Zwillich

She is the host of Food Network Canada's Summer's Best and CBC's Surprise! It's Edible Incredible! She became a television personality in 1997 with the debut of Stuff, which aired on TVOntario, ABC Australia, across Asia and South America, and on the WAM! network in the US.

Léon Bernier

For CBC Television he served as music director of the programs Les Coqueluches, Allo Boubou, Zoum, and Les Démons du midi, and composed music for the television dramas Edna, Le Vélo devant la porte, Pâques, Le Misanthrope, and Coup de sang among others.

Mark Critch

He has also been a guest on CBC Radio One's Madly Off in All Directions, the CBC Television show Republic of Doyle, and is the host of CBC TV's Halifax Comedy Festival.

Mark Rathbun

On November 10, 2013, The Passionate Eye, an investigative TV series rebroadcast the program as a premiere in Canada on CBC Television.

Media in Erie, Pennsylvania

Canada's CityTV (from its Woodstock, Ontario transmitter CITY-TV-2), A (via CFPL-TV) and CBC Television (via CBLT-TV's repeater, CBLN) from London, Ontario can be viewed in portions of downtown Erie and areas north of Interstate 90.

Media in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Prince Albert was previously served by CKBI-TV channel 5, a private CBC Television outlet; this station would close down in 2002, with its transmitter becoming CBKST-9, a repeater of CBKST Saskatoon, which in turn was a semi-satellite of CBKT Regina.

More Tears

More Tears (1998) is a seriocomedy television series that was broadcast by CBC Television, as a short run programme; it was written and produced by Ken Finkleman following the success of The Newsroom (1996), and was partly a remake of (1963), by Federico Fellini.

Norm Marshall

CBC Television's pre-game segments for the 95th Grey Cup in November 2007 featured Marshall's recollection of the early Grey Cup broadcasts.

North Park Secondary School

Cassie Campbell, former Team Canada Women's Ice Hockey captain, current anchor on Hockey Night in Canada on CBC.

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998-1999) was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia.

One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps

One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps is a documentary film produced and directed by David Cassidy and Kristin Davy which aired on History Channel UK and CBC Television.

Pam Barrett

She was parodied on the CBC Television show The Royal Canadian Air Farce, and featured on the front cover of the May 2000 issue of lifestyle magazine Elm Street.

Parker Place

Parker Place was one of the filming locations in the CBC Television miniseries Dragon Boys.

Penelope Corrin

She is seen nationally on CBC Television's Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy broadcasts as a replacement cast member while Jessica Holmes was on maternity leave during the first two months of 2007.

Ryan Cooley

He has also appeared in the features Sachsenhausen 1944, Toy Men, Disney Channel movie The Color of Friendship, the Animal Planet movie Cybermutt and CBC TV movie Happy Christmas Miss King alongside his Degrassi co-star Lauren Collins.

Sergei M. Plekhanov

Since his arrival in Canada in 1993, he has been a frequent commentator on Russian and East European affairs for Canadian TV, radio networks, and print media, including TVO's Studio 2, The Agenda, CBC News, CBC's The Sunday Edition and CTV News.

Shaun Majumder

Majumder has also starred in the CBC comedy pilot Hatching, Matching and Dispatching and the short film Plain Brown Rapper, as well as playing Kumar's brother in the 2004 comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

Sparkle Hayter

She wrote for the New York Times Op-Ed Page, the Nation and Toronto Globe and Mail, was a regular participant on CNN's talk show "CNN & Company" and was also seen on Good Day New York, NPR, CBC, BBC and Paris Premiere.

Telestream

Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

The Kids of Degrassi Street

It grew out of four short films: Ida Makes a Movie, Cookie Goes to the Hospital, Irene Moves In and Noel Buys a Suit, which originally aired as after-school specials on CBC Television in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively.

Writers Guild of Canada

In addition to the IPA, the Guild also has agreements in place with the APFTQ, CBC Radio, CBC Television, CTV, the NFB and TVOntario.