On Oct. 27 Alan Elder, a curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization joined with personalities from CBC/Radio-Canada Mark Starowicz and Simon Durivage in a fascinating discussion looking at the cultural legacy of Expo 67. Read More »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 12:39:53 PM
In CBC at 75: Turning Points in Public Broadcasting, Ideas producer David Cayley examines crucial episodes in the history of the CBC from its founding to the present. Read More »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 11:57:53 AM
Royal Canadian Air Farce won the hearts and minds of Canadians because of their uncanny ability to turn headlines into punchlines and find funny nuggets in everything from national scandals to small-town idiosyncrasies. Read More »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 11:17:07 AM
Sasa Petricic is a video journalist for The National, CBC-TV's flagship national newscast. He not only reports, but also shoots and edits the stories he presents from across Canada and around the world. Read More »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Renowned Canadian actor Eric Peterson joins Rewind host Michael Enright this week to look at 75 years of drama on CBC Radio. CBC's drama series have served as a showcase and training ground for home-grown talent. Read More »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Check out the mailbag page of a 1963 issue of the CBC Times. Comments sent in by listeners and viewers include praise for Celebrity Concert and Parade of Choirs and criticisms asking why space is used for a recipe column. Read More »
Posted on Oct 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Alan Maitland auditioned for the CBC as a singer in 1947. But he was hired as an announcer, and stayed for 46 years, contributing to programs such as On the Move, Children's Stories, Action Set, Centennial Diary, and Matinee. In 1974 he joined As It Happens as co-host and became known affectionately as Front Porch Al. Read More »
Posted on Oct 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In this 1991 clip, Julia Child, an author and TV host, sips tea with CBC Radio's Vicki Gabereau and recalls her past with the U.S. diplomatic service. Child has helped change the way North Americans think about food. Read More »
Posted on Oct 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This ad from 1986 promotes Metro Morning, featuring Joe Cote, Shelagh Rogers and Jim Curran. Metro Morning has been on the air in Toronto since 1973. Curran, the traffic reporter, has been with the show since its start. Read More »
Posted on Oct 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The sudden death of Barbara Frum on March 26, 1992 shocked Canadians. The loss of one of the country's most respected broadcasters at the age of 54 reverberated across living rooms of the nation. Read More »
Posted on Oct 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This sketch was used in the planning for covering election night in 1979. In the sketch, you can see the intended look for camera 2 and camera 7 - which would be used for a close up in an interview area and for a close up on the host of the evening. Read More »
Posted on Oct 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In celebration of 75 years of Canadian music and CBC broadcasting, CBC Radio 2 is pre-empting regular programming on Nov. 2 from 12-7 p.m. ET to present Raised on Radio - a decade-by-decade countdown of Canada's most essential songs. Read More »
Posted on Oct 24, 2011 1:03:46 PM
On Sunday, Oct. 30 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., listeners across the country will be treated to an exceptional musical experience. Eight concerts will be broadcast from eight cities chosen for the vitality of their arts scenes and their specific musical traditions. Read More »
Posted on Oct 24, 2011 9:54:53 AM
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization will host their last From Headlines to History public forum on Thursday, exploring the cultural legacy of Expo 67. Curator Alan Elder will be joined by Mark Starowicz and Simon Durivage. Read More »
Posted on Oct 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Dianne Buckner has established herself as a skilled interviewer, writer, and producer, and an accomplished speaker. She has reported on entrepreneurs for two decades and is part of the business news team at CBC. Read More »
Posted on Oct 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Current host Anna Maria Tremonti joins Rewind host Michael Enright in this week's special episode, which will be exploring CBC's coverage of politics over its 75 years. Read More »
Posted on Oct 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Check out a 1971 two-page advertisement promoting the lineup on CBC Television. "TV isn't what it used to be ... it's better on CBC," the advertisement states. Read More »
Posted on Oct 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Things are hopping at a new Playboy Club in Montreal -- Canada's first, and in this The Way It Is clip from Oct. 1, 1967, a CBC reporter talks with Bunny Sonja Jensen, as well as a Bunny "den mother" and Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Read More »
Posted on Oct 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
On Oct. 13, the Canadian War Museum joined with CBC/Radio-Canada to host Canada's Military: Its Role at Home, a discussion surrounding the role of the armed forces within Canada. The presentation was part of From Headlines to History. Read More »
Posted on Oct 21, 2011 11:09:25 AM
Our special programming is ramping up as we approach the big day on November 2 - CBC's official 75th anniversary. CBC Television, CBC Radio and CBC.ca are will be offering a range of special programming as we reach the culmination of the 75 days of programming countdown. Read More »
Posted on Oct 21, 2011 10:32:11 AM
"Basically I can't draw," Margaret Atwood tells CBC's Peter Gzowski as she illustrates a few of her cartoon characters in this clip from 90 Minutes Live in 1978. The accomplished writer is also a cartoonist for This Magazine. Using the pseudonym Bart Gerrard. Read More »
Posted on Oct 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This print ad was used in the early 1970s to advertise CBC's sports programming. "Whatever your favourite sport ... CBC Radio/TV", the ad states, illustrating a variety of different competitions that CBC had established a reputation for covering. Read More »
Posted on Oct 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
For 32 years, Ernie Coombs played Mr. Dressup and opened the doors to a world of imagination when he lifted the lid on his famous Tickle Trunk and shared in the antics of his faithful puppet friends Casey and Finnegan. Read More »
Posted on Oct 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Alex Tavshunsky has been drawing courtroom illustrations for the news media from 1993. Many of his court illustrations have been created for CBC TV newscasts. Read More »
Posted on Oct 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This week's special episode of Rewind will look at how CBC Radio has covered issues about and of concern to aboriginal people. Host Michael Enright will be joined be guest co-host Darrell Dennis. Read More »
Posted on Oct 17, 2011 10:17:59 AM
MacIntyre joined CBC Television Halifax as a current affairs story editor/journalist for Here Today in 1976. Soon after, he was given his own show and he hosted for three seasons, the regional current affairs program The MacIntyre File. Read More »
Posted on Oct 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Check out a 1996 issue of the CBC Radio Program Guide. The November 1996 edition includes an invitation to CBC's 60th anniversary events and a list of schedule events. Read More »
Posted on Oct 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Canada looks more like a police state than a democracy eight days after the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner James Cross. On Parliament Hill a reporter confronts Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau: "What is it with all these men and guns around here?" How far will the prime minister extend law and order? Just watch him. Read More »
Posted on Oct 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa has opened a new exhibition to commemorate the 75th anniversary of CBC/Radio-Canada. CBC/Radio-Canada: 75 Years of Bringing Canadians Together features video and artifacts from CBC's history. Read More »
Posted on Oct 14, 2011 10:34:05 AM
In this illuminating 1969 interview, Neil Young discusses the bitter end of Buffalo Springfield, the "dirty" music industry, groupies and his recording process as a solo musician. He also alludes to using the "live" method of recording on his next album. Read More »
Posted on Oct 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
On This is That, nothing is off limits - not politics, business, culture, justice, science nor religion. If it's relevant to Canadians, hosts Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring are committed to finding out the this and the that of the story. Read More »
Posted on Oct 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This ad from December 1970 shows The National anchors of the time Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad. The two anchors brought viewers "up to the minute reports from the CBC's world-wide web of newsrooms and correspondents," the ad states. Read More »
Posted on Oct 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Two of CBC/Radio-Canada's reporters will be at the Canadian War Museum on Thursday to talk about covering the Canadian military's role at home. Read More »
Posted on Oct 12, 2011 8:42:57 AM
For three hours a day, five days a week - for 15 years - millions tuned in to CBC Radio's Morningside and Peter Gzowski. Despite Gzowski's disheveled appearance, this beloved radio host cast his folksy charm across the country. Read More »
Posted on Oct 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This split screen shows a costume design and then what the character ended up actually looking like. The costume is for Volpone, which broadcast on CBC in December 1969 Read More »
Posted on Oct 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Shelagh Rogers is a veteran broadcast-journalist. She has hosted This Morning and Sounds Like Canada. Around 1985, she began reading listener mail on the late Peter Gzowski's show Morningside and became an instant hit. Read More »
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
While Royal Canadian Air Farce's knack for send-ups of politicians, pundits, and plebeians alike kept audiences laughing out loud for almost four decades, the troupe's own story has gone untold. Until now. Read More »
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Eleanor Wachtel joins Michael Enright on Rewind this week to look at how CBC Radio has nurtured a Canadian voice in literature. Read More »
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Radio demonstrations drew huge audiences in the early 1920s. Both Canada and the U.S. had established commercial stations and had scheduled broadcasts but most of the content on both sides of the border was American. Read More »
Posted on Oct 9, 2011 6:00:00 AM
On March 11, 1977 Iggy Pop, a singer synonymous with a new musical movement called punk rock, joins CBC host Peter Gzowski for an interview. Iggy Pop is wearing black dress pants and a beige blazer but he's forgotten his dress shirt. He's also forgotten his manners and Gzowski's name. Read More »
Posted on Oct 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Tragically Hip is one of Canada's favourite bands, selling out arenas with music powered by driving guitars and thoughtful lyrics. In this 1999 interview Gord Downie tells CBC reporter Laurie Brown it took just one rehearsal before the band felt like a success. Read More »
Posted on Oct 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Debuting in 1971, This Country in the Morning broke new ground in CBC Radio morning programming, running a record three hours long. Host Peter Gzowski described This Country in the Morning as a show of conversation. Read More »
Posted on Oct 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Hockey Night In Canada has been a national institution since 1952, when Foster Hewitt's familiar "Hello, Canada!" ushered hockey fans into the era of television. HNIC has since become the longest running and most influential sports program in Canadian history. Read More »
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 11:03:45 AM
For busy housewives in postwar Canada, Kate Aitken's singsong voice was a welcome diversion from their everyday duties. Three days a week, Mrs. A shared advice on cooking, child care and fashion and offered a perspective on women and politics. Read More »
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Reach for the Top pitted Canada's brightest high school students against each other in a question and answer game. Topics that ranged from the classics to popular culture, from history to mathematics Read More »
Posted on Oct 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Last Thursday CBC/Radio-Canada foreign correspondents and experts at the Canadian War Museum got together to discuss how news is brought to Canadians from the front as part of the From Headlines to History series. Read More »
Posted on Oct 3, 2011 11:01:29 AM
Entertainer to many, agitator to some. Love him or hate him, Don Cherry is a national icon and a hockey original. Every week on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada, Cherry gives his sometimes inflammatory views on the world of hockey. Read More »
Posted on Oct 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This week's episode of Rewind will look at the neighbourhoods, towns, cities and provinces that we call home as part of a special series looking at CBC's 75 years of history. Host Michael Enright will be joined by Peter Brown for the Oct. 6 episode. Read More »
Posted on Oct 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This brochure was created for CBC/Radio-Canada's 50th anniversary in 1986. The short document is mostly aimed at advertisers, but provides an interesting snapshot of the state of CBC/Radio-Canada 25 years ago. Read More »
Posted on Oct 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Some scenes of Terry Fox's run are so familiar they are almost iconic. But you probably haven't seen this long-lost interview with the legendary runner. In 2005, the CBC rediscovered a Terry Fox tape listed simply as "Near Corner Brook." The original tape was not catalogued in the national system, and only resurfaced 25 years later. Read More »
Posted on Oct 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
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