Shelagh Rogers leaving Sounds Like Canada
Last Updated: Saturday, March 8, 2008 | 11:46 AM ET
CBC News
CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers, host of Radio One's Sounds Like Canada, will be leaving the show at the end of May.
A CBC statement says the show will likely continue until the end of August with a roster of guest hosts or repeated segments.
CBC Radio One's Shelagh Rogers began hosting Sounds Like Canada in 2002.
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According to the official announcement, the decision was mutual and Rogers is in talks to return in the fall to possibly host another show.
Sounds Like Canada is one of the network's two flagship radio morning shows that replaced the three-hour program This Morning. Anna Maria Tremonti's The Current is the other show.
Rogers hosted This Morning for two years until 2002 before the slot was transformed and split into two programs. Rogers moved with Sounds Like Canada to Vancouver in 2003.
The broadcaster has been a radio mainstay since 1980 when she joined CBC Radio in Ottawa, hosting the local current affairs program as well as music broadcasts.
Two years later, she became the host of a national classical concert show, Mostly Music and in 1984, she moved to CBC Radio Toronto.
Around 1985, she began reading listener mail on the late Peter Gzowski's show Morningside and became an instant hit.
Since then, she has hosted The Arts Tonight and Take Five and became the permanent backup host to Gzowski in 1995.
