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5 unusual facts about CBC.ca


CBC.ca

In 2004, CBC.ca was the only organization to win two awards from the Online News Association – one in the "specialty journalism" category for Canada Votes, its coverage of the 2004 Canadian federal election, and one in the "service journalism" category for ADR Database, a project from the CBC News investigative unit.

In 1993, CBC launched an experimental web service, followed by a small site supporting CBC Radio and a site supporting the CBC Halifax TV program Street Cents.

In 2003, CBC won an Online News Association award in the "service journalism" category for its coverage of the SARS epidemic.

Around 1996, CBC began offering 24-hour live streaming of its radio services using RealAudio.

Madame Tutli-Putli

Once the entire film was unlocked, it was made available for viewing at CBC.ca.


Alexis Mazurin

He subsequently joined CBC Radio, hosting the series Pass the Mic and Out There before joining CBC Radio 3 in 2003.

Arthur Hailey

After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight).

This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).

Ashley Leggat

In 2005, Leggat performed in Moze Mossanen's short film Roxana as part of CBC's "Opening Night" series.

Bill Gillespie

In 1989, he joined CBC's Parliamentary Bureau as a reporter, producer and occasional host of the national CBC Radio News weekly political affairs show, The House.

BOTB

Battle of the Blades, a Canadian television figure skating competition broadcast by CBC.

Calvin Vollrath

CBC's documentary show hosted by Adrienne Clarkson aired a show about Métis fiddling that featured Calvin Vollrath and John Arcand.

Canada's Next Great Prime Minister

Representatives of Magna International, The Dominion Institute, CBC and the Fulbright Program selected four contestants to appear on the show after a cross-country university campus tour.

CBC News Magazine

Lorne Greene, then an announcer and newsreader for the CBC, was narrator for the series in its early years.

CBC Records

The CBC began releasing albums in 1966, in cooperation with commercial labels (such as RCA Records), and established its own internal record label, CBC Enterprises, in 1982.

Christian Brothers College, Burwood

Christian Brothers College, Burwood (CBC Burwood) was a Catholic high school located in Burwood, Sydney Australia.

Eureka, Nunavut

In the 1980s, TV audio was often connected to the telephone to feed CBC-TV news to CHAR-FM in isolated Alert.

Graham Townsend

He toured extensively throughout Europe and in Australia for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Canadian government, and gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy

By 2005, the event had grown to a fundraising dinner serving 570 people, and co-hosted by Shelagh Rogers - the host of CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada" morning flagship show.

Ian Boothby

A writer for multiple television series including CBC's Switchback, Street Cents, "Big Sound" and Popular Mechanics for Kids.

Jayme Stone

Canadian journalist Brianna Goldberg produced a radio documentary about the making of the album, which aired on CBC Radio One.

John Alexander Porteous

Returning to New Brunswick in 1974, he became known as a commentator for the CBC, published numerous articles and columns for such publications as The Globe and Mail, TV Guide and the Reader's Digest.

John Cerutti

After his playing career, he went into broadcasting and started doing Blue Jays games alongside Brian Williams on CBC before becoming a TV analyst for the team's new flagship station, Rogers Sportsnet.

John Hughes-Hallett

Captain Hughes-Hallett was a major character in the Canadian CBC miniseries Dieppe, in which he was played by actor Robert Joy.

Jonathan Torrens

Torrens plays the role of Robert Cheeley, vice principal of Xavier Academy on the CBC sitcom Mr. D.

Khalistan movement

Terry Milewski reported in a 2006 documentary for the CBC that a minority within Canada's Sikh community was gaining political influence even while publicly supporting terrorist acts in the struggle for an independent Sikh state.

Kris Lemche

Abandoning plans to study biochemistry in University, Lemche instead moved to Prince Edward Island to work on the CBC series Emily of New Moon.

Larry D. Mann

Apart from his CBC work, he appeared in more than 20 movies, with roles in The Sting and In the Heat of the Night.

Mad Bomber Society

Mad Bomber Society has played at major music events across Canada including the 2003 Stage 13 in Camrose, North County Fair in Alberta, and Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife, which was broadcast by CBC Radio North; the 2002 Salmon Arm Roots'n'Blues Fest; and the 2001 Victoria Ska Fest and North County Fair.

Maggie Blue O'Hara

Maggie Blue has appeared in many television series and TV movies produced in Vancouver, including X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, Hope Island, Neon Rider and three years as a regular on the CBC TV series Northwood.

Marina Endicott

Good to a Fault was selected for the 2010 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, defended by broadcaster Simi Sara.

Maritime Noon

It is produced out of the studios of CBHA-FM in the CBC Radio Building at Halifax, Nova Scotia and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters in the Maritimes.

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.

Max Lenderman

He has been interviewed by dozens of news agencies on the subjects, most notably including The National Post, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business TV, CTV, NOW, Hour, Marketing Magazine, Profit Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and CBC Radio: The Sunday Edition.

Mr. Dressup

They are Casey's tree-house; which is on display in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in downtown Toronto; the Tickle Trunk (with assorted props) is on display in the CBC Museum, also in Toronto.

Murray C. Anderson

Films for which he has written the music include John Boorman's In My Country, the CBC's documentary Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela, which won the 2005 Gemini Award in Canada for Best Music in a Documentary, and Tim Greene's A Boy Called Twist.

North Park Secondary School

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

Pamela Palmater

A frequent media political commentator, she appears for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's InFocus, CTV, and CBC.

Random Killing

In 1995, their song "12," from Thoughts of Aggression (Raw Energy 1994), was re-recorded at CBC Studios and released as an animated video by Sesame Park and subsequently picked up by Sesame Street where it aired internationally for almost a decade.

Ray Bellew

He was in CBC Toronto's production of Macbeth with Sean Connery, before the actor was to star in his first James Bond film.

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.

Snowblink

Described by the CBC as "one of the most compelling new voices on the Canadian scene", the band has opened for Feist, Jeff Tweedy, Owen Pallett, Timber Timbre, Ohbijou, Great Lake Swimmers and The Hidden Cameras.

Summer Evening

This series was produced through CBC Ottawa as a series of concert recordings from the CBC Summer Festival at Camp Fortune in Quebec.

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 Happy Gang

The show began on CRCT, a CBC affiliate in Toronto, moved to the CBC network four months later, and ran for 22 years, totalling nearly 4900 broadcasts.

The Maple Leaf Forever

It is the opening theme of each episode of The King Chronicle, Donald Brittain's 1988 NFB/CBC miniseries about the long career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

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.

Tom McCamus

Currently McCamus is dividing his time between theatre and film work, and has recently starred in the CBC film Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story as famous hockey dad Walter Gretzky, the Canadian production Shake Hands with the Devil, and in the Ken Finkleman miniseries At The Hotel.

W. D. Valgardson

Bloodflowers Sundary Matinee, Toronto, CBC radio, March 6, 1983

Wojeck

Although it was one of the highest-rated shows on Canadian television in its time, only 20 episodes of the series were made, because Vernon was lured to Hollywood by the promise of more money than the CBC could offer.

Zaib Shaikh

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


see also

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.