X-Nico

31 unusual facts about Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


2003–04 Edmonton Oilers season

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television broadcast also set the record for most viewers of a single NHL game with 2.747 million nationwide.

2003–04 Montreal Canadiens season

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television broadcast also set the record for most viewers of a single NHL game with 2.747 million nationwide.

Ann Meekitjuk Hanson

She joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a receptionist, later becoming an announcer and producer in Inuktitut broadcasting.

Ariann Black

She has appeared in BBC shows, and series for French and Italian networks and for the Canadian network CBC.

Auro Roselli

Roselli then transferred to Montreal, working as a political commentator for the International Service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Canadian political blogosphere

The CBC's hallmark news programme The National launched its first website in 1996, with the intention of creating a more interactive experience for its viewers.

Canadian Television Sales

CTS was started by Michael Custardo in April 1997 to provide the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) with a dedicated sales force in the United States and respond to the increasing number of requests from U.S. advertising agencies looking to incorporate Canada into their upcoming media campaigns.

Carolyn Wood

According to a CBC documentary on Abu Ghraib a Bronze Star awarded to Wood following the deaths in custody was awarded for valor.

Channel 75

CFCV was replaced by ten-watt CBSAT channel 21, then went dark as all CBC/Radio-Canada owned and operated rebroadcasters were shut down nationally on August 1, 2012.

Christopher C. Horner

He has provided legal, policy, and political commentary several hundred times each on both television and radio, in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, including on the Fox News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC (with repeat visits on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer), BBC, CNN, CNN International, ITN, CBC, Bloomberg, and Reuters Television.

David Matheson

Along with Maury Lafoy on upright bass, Matheson entertains audience members at tapings of the Royal Canadian Air Farce at the CBC's Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, Ontario as "The Ground Crew".

Frits Thors

From 1946 on he works as a freelance journalist for the Canadian broadcaster CBC and the Dutch Wereldomroep.

George Bornoff

He also played in the orchestras of the CKY and CJRC radio stations from 1934–1943 and played regularly in orchestras at the CRBC and CBC from 1925-1943.

Gertrude Stubbs

So many people believed that it was true that it was later retold as historical fact on the CBC program, This Day in History.

Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin

The book had its beginnings in a script for a radio play for CBC Ideas written by Mayse in 1989 titled "The Shooting of Ginger Goodwin".

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.

Karen Sentíes

Karen Sentíes (December 18, 1965 in Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela actress who is known for playing in Spanish language telenovelas on Televisa and TV Azteca and in one Canadian television series on the CBC.

Kyla Brettle

Her work has been well received and broadcast internationally on the BBC, Radio New Zealand, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, JoyFM in Ghana, Radio Netherlands, RTHK in Hong Kong, and NPR in the US.

Mahmoud Kaabour

Kaabour graduated with distinction from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, after which he pursued a documentary focus at the National Film Board of Canada and the newsroom at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Media in Alberta

In television, the largest companies were Bell Media with four stations, Rogers with four, Shaw Media with three, and the CBC with three (two English-language, one French).

RAF Ferry Command

Above and Beyond (2006), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) four-hour mini series, was inspired by the true story of the RAF Ferry Command, recounting the daring plan to deliver aircraft across the North Atlantic to the beleaguered Royal Air Force.

Stan Marks

Stan Marks has given radio talks over BBC, CBC (Canada) and Australian Broadcasting Commission and to numerous groups, schools and organisations on many topics, particularly humour in all its forms.

Steve Thurston

During his studies at Messiah College, He participated in a program through Asbury University and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) where he received training, and later worked in paid broadcasting positions at the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1996 with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Broadcasting Company.

Ted Remerowski

His works include contributing to The Canadian Establishment, a series of one-hour documentaries first aired on CBC in 1980 for which he won the ACTRA award for Best Television Program for that year.

Telecommunications in Bermuda

All three television stations are commercial - there is no equivalent to Canada's CBC/Radio-Canada, the US's PBS, and the UK's BBC in Bermuda.

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 Roundup

The Roundup was a weekday afternoon program on the Radio One network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Tetsuro Shigematsu and Bill Richardson at different times.

The World at Six

The World at Six is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national dinner-hour radio newscast, airing Monday to Friday from 6 to 6:30 p.m. local time on CBC Radio One.

There Will Never Be Another Tonight

Starting in 2009, the song is used as the opening theme song for the CBC reality competition, Battle of the Blades.

Todd Harkins

As a result of appearing in the movie, Harkins was cast in the first season of Making the Cut, a reality television show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that follows amateur players competing for an invitation to an NHL training camp.


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).

Aselin Debison

Debison sang with country music artist and Runrig vocalist Bruce Guthro on a CBC (and later a PBS) special entitled "Aselin Debison: Sweet is the Melody".

Ashley Leggat

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

Calvin Vollrath

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

Chris McKhool

He has also enjoyed a successful career performing for young audiences, appearing on television shows such as Mr. Dressup, YTV's Treehouse, TVOntario's Crawlspace and the CBC, as well as concerts across Canada.

Concert Companion

Feature articles about the Concert Companion appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston Globe, The Times, Toronto Star and other national and international publications; feature segments aired on National Public Radio (All Things Considered), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

Darren Copeland

He created an adaptation of August Strindberg's (1849–1912) play A Dream Play (1901), which became the first radio drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1.

Donna Ladd

In July 2005, Donna Ladd and photographer Kate Medley joined Thomas Moore and Canadian Broadcasting filmmaker David Ridgen in a trip to Moore's hometown of Meadville, Mississippi.

Fred Penner

His television show, Fred Penner's Place, aired for 30 Minutes on CBC in Canada from 1985 to 1997.

Gerard Ryle

"To analyze the documents, ICIJ collaborated with reporters from The Guardian and the BBC in the U.K., Le Monde in France, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany, The Washington Post, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and 31 other media partners around the world.

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.

Ian Boothby

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

John Gibler

Gibler has also reported from Oaxaca for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the international edition of the Miami Herald.

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.

Julius Grey

Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.

NoCGV Svalbard

On 9 July 2007 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had announced that Canada would be building six to eight corvettes modeled after the Svalbards design.

Pamela Palmater

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

Project Thread

Former Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) director Reid Morden was interviewed by the CBC, and stated that the arrests were legitimate, since the agency needs "only to suspect someone of being a threat before it can act".

Public Francophone Radios

The Public Francophone Radios (French: Radios francophones publiques) is a group of French-speaking radio broadcasters comprising Radio France, Radio Canada, the Radio Télévision Suisse and RTBF.

Richmond P. Hobson, Jr.

His books, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, and The Rancher Takes a Wife, inspired a CBC television program (Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy).

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.

Stephen Finucan

His debut novel, "The Fallen", was chosen as one of CBC Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.

Television broadcasting in Australia

In addition to this, a great deal of programming from the PBS, Arte, BBC and CBC, and even Comedy Central are shown.

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.

CBC Radio's Metro Morning show in Toronto ran a contest to find new lyrics for the song in 1997.

Thomas Suluk

After working as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio announcer for a short period, Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons at the 1984 federal election, representing the electoral district of Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut).

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.

Tout près du bonheur

It was during the widely popular Quebec karaoke game show, La fureur, held at the Bell Centre in Montreal and broadcast on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

William C. Patrick III

He appeared on all of the major U.S. television networks as well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, PBS, the History Channel, The Learning Channel, and the Discovery Channel.

World Youth Day 2002

While not being able to participate in person, he did view the Friday Stations of the Cross via television coverage by the CBC.