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unusual facts about Radio-Canada



3PM Pick-Up

3PM Pick-Up is an Australian drive radio show with Chrissie Swan & Jane Hall.

A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Active Space Technologies

Founded in 2004, the company's work and expansion has been reported in several media, including Expresso, Correio da Manhã, The Wall Street Journal, Diário As Beiras, Público, Diário de Coimbra, RDP Antena 1, Jornal de Notícias, TSF, Agência Lusa, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra, El Mundo, RTP 2, Rádio Renascença, etc.

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Angie Goff

In November 2010, Goff joined DC radio station WVRX, locally known as "105.9 The Edge", as a member of the "Kirk and Mike" morning show hosted by Mike O'Meara and Kirk McEwen.

Antoine Cormery

Antoine Cormery graduated from Centre de formation des journalistes (the national centre for education in journalism) in Paris, 1991, then worked for AFP and RFI, before being hired by Europe 1 radio station by winning the bourse Lauga competition.

Arc flash

The Canadian Standards Association's CSA Z462 Arc Flash Standard is Canada's version of NFPA70E.

Chuck Dunaway

In 1952, after graduating from high school, Dunaway obtained his first full time on-air radio job at KBST in Big Spring, Texas, at the rate of 65 cents an hour, where he remained for one year before joining KPRC in Houston as a staff announcer in 1953.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

DZRJ-FM

On October 15, 2010, HP Philippines, a unit of United States-based information technology firm Hewlett-Packard Company, have entered an agreement with RJ 100.3 FM as part of radio commercials.

Economy of Hamilton, Ontario

Bunge is an oilseed processing plant and Canada’s largest canola processor.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Gyro tower

Spirale,La Ronde,Montreal,Quebec,Canada (Opened in 1967 double cabin)

Hayden Lake, Idaho

The Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet flowed south from Canada, carving the basin of present-day Lake Pend Oreille and damming the Clark Fork river.

Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

John Kalbhenn

John Kalbhenn (born April 14, 1963 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Jon Sciambi

As Sciambi attended Boston College, he began his sportscasting experience on WZBC, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

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.

Kanatak

Kanatak Lake (or Kanata Lakes), a neighbourhood officially referred to as Marchwood-Lakeside within the northern section of Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

Legal status of animals in Canada

When the Conservative Party came to power in 2006, MP Mark Holland tabled a private member’s bill that was virtually identical to Bill C-50, the most recent incarnation of C-17.

Mary Healy

In addition, the couple were regular substitute hosts on Arthur Godfrey's television programs and were frequent guest panelists on What's My Line? In 1960, they co-starred in their radio show The Peter Lind-Mary Healy Show.

Masajiro Miyazaki

Miyazaki was born in the vicinity of Hikone City in Japan and moved to Canada in 1913 with his father.

Montrose Swing Bridge

1910 to carry the Canada Southern Railway over the river (click the link to see a discussion of companies who used the Canada Southern tracks over the years).

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Rebecca Front

Front achieved a higher profile as a result of her work with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring on the radio shows Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World and On the Hour, and the television and radio series Fist of Fun.

Rogers Communications

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

S. Narasinga Rao

He then moved to McMaster University in Canada where he received a second Master of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in biophysics in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, through Center for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

Secondhand Lions

The film score was composed by Patrick Doyle and features music by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Ola Onabule, in addition to Doyle.

Some Other Guy

The song was part of The Beatles' live repertoire in 1962-63, and a recording was made on 19 June 1963 during a live BBC radio performance by the band at The Playhouse Theatre, London.

Sophie Atkinson

Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s free passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

Soulshock

In the years 1989-1991 was Carsten Schack co-host of the radio program The DUR (Dansk Ungdomsradio) on P3.

Talk Radio Network

Encores of Talk Radio Network programming and fill-in hosts such as Bill Wattenburg and Tammy Bruce fill in the gaps.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

The Fools

In 1979, the band released "Psycho Chicken", a parody of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer", and it was an immediate hit on Boston radio stations.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

Trenton Titans

The games were broadcast on radio during the first nine years of existence on WHWH, WBCB-AM, and WTSR, In 2008, the broadcasts switched to internet-only, and were handled by first-year play-by-play announcer Paul Roper, who was selected to broadcast the 2009 ECHL All-Star Game.

Vincent Smith

Vincent Reynolds Smith (1890–1960), a judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Waydowntown

The radio station CJAY 92 that plays "Start A Rumour Day" throughout the film is a real rock station in Calgary, with the station's actual DJs (the DJ "Bob", is Bob Steele, no longer with the station).

WBLN

WQQR, a radio station (94.7 FM) licensed to Clinton, Kentucky, United States, which used the call sign WBLN from March 1997 to March 1998

WHDQ

Q106 was one of the first radio stations to carry the Imus in the Morning show, and one of the first stations to reinstate the show upon Imus' return to the airwaves in December 2007.

WRNO-FM

On April 1, 2008, the station switched to "Rush Radio," all day repeats of The Rush Limbaugh Show and a tape loop of Rush's theme song, the instrumental from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders, during times when the show was not playing.

WRSN

WKSL, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to serve Cary, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WRSN from 1996 to 2006

WUFR

WUFR-LP, a low-power radio station (102.7 FM) licensed to Umatilla, Florida, United States

WUIN

WLTT, a radio station (1180 AM) licensed to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, United States, briefly known as WUIN in January 2011

Youth ministry

There are organizations within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the primary organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States), as well as within the Canadian Unitarian Council (the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada), which minister to and with youth, of which Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the largest and most apparent.


see also

Alexandre Da Costa

He recorded live performances for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Radio-Classical International, Radio-Canada/CBC, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), Radio Nacional de España (RNE), Austria State Radio (ORF), TV Asahi Japan.

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.

Channel 78

CBEFT (Radio-Canada Windsor) first aired on Channel 78 in 1976, moved to channel 54 in 1982 and by 1996 had become a simple rebroadcaster of CBOFT Ottawa-Hull.

Chantal Hébert

After Radio-Canada appointed Hébert to cover federal politics on Parliament Hill, she worked as bureau chief for Montreal's Le Devoir and La Presse.

Christian Kit Goguen

He studied drama at the Université de Moncton, did some acting with the Théâtre l'Escaouette in Moncton and on the television show Samuel, broadcast on Radio-Canada, the French CBC.

CKRN-DT

CKRN-DT (branded on-air as Radio-Canada Télévision CKRN) is a privately owned French language television station affiliated with Télévision de Radio-Canada in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada, which essentially functions as a semi-satellite of Montreal Radio-Canada flagship station CBFT-DT due to not having alternative non-network sources of programming available.

Denise Filiatrault

Filiatrault attained star status on TV in the 1960s, co-starring with Dominique Michel in the Radio-Canada television series Moi et l'autre (1967–71) and in many editions of Radio-Canada's annual New Year's special, Bye Bye.

Flatmania

Flatmania is an animated television program that airs in France (on France 3 and Disney Channel France), Canada (YTV and Radio-Canada) Germany (Nick), the U.S. (Animania) and in the United Kingdom (on POP).

François-Louis Tremblay

He was a guest guitarist in Radio-Canada's TV show "Tellement sport" to play with the band Karkwa.

Image Entertainment Corporation

Monster Buster Club (co-produced with Marathon Media, YTV, Radio-Canada, Disney XD Europe, and TF1)

Judith Jasmin

In 1966, Radio-Canada named Jasmin their United Nations correspondent and, later, their Washington correspondent.

Maison Radio-Canada

The street address of Maison Radio-Canada is 1400 René Lévesque Boulevard East, fittingly named for former premier René Lévesque, who was once a reporter and commentator for the CBC.

Media in Thunder Bay

Other Canadian network affiliates available to all cable subscribers in Thunder Bay include CBLFT-DT (Radio-Canada) from Toronto and CFTM-DT (TVA) from Montreal -- CTV service is available only to digital cable customers.

Option Canada

Continued investigation by former Radio-Canada journalist Normand Lester lead the revelation of a $4.8-million grant awarded to Option Canada by Heritage Canada.

Patrick Masbourian

In summer 2006, Masbourian replaced Marie-France Bazzo on the morning show of Radio-Canada's 1st channel called "Pour la suite des choses" in the 9:00 to 11:30 am time slot.

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.

Tout le monde en parle

A Canadian version debuted in 2004 on Radio-Canada with Guy A. Lepage as host and Dany Turcotte as le fou du roi ("the jester").

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Beaulieu served as a teacher of literature at the National Theatre School of Canada from 1972 to 1978, and also wrote for the Radio-Canada broadcasts "Documents", "Petit théâtre", "Roman", "La Feuillaison".

XM Radio Canada

The Best Of Sirius package (NFL, NASCAR, Howard 100, Howard 101) was not included on XM Radio Canada's offerings in September 2008, even though the Sirius channels were poured to XM Radio Canada during the merger of XM and Sirius channels on November 12, 2008.