Street Cents

Street Cents is produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia - but while our offices and some of our field producers are here, we have people working on the show all across Canada. We travel the entire country to record your Streeters, Viewer Letters, Hey You's and Beefs!

Our on-air people are also found across the country. In Halifax, we have co-hosts Darryl Kyte and Kim D'Eon. Connie Walker, our third co-host, works out of Toronto.

Occasionally we use "Stringers." They're like part-time reporters who do a few items a season. Denise Wong out of Vancouver and Dakota McFadzean from Regina both work as Street Cents Stringers.

Here's how a show comes together. Every week we have a story meeting where we brainstorm with the entire editorial staff. Each member of the team brings ideas for that specific episode - and many of these ideas come from our viewer e-mail.

This meeting is where we decide - for example - what would make a great Street Test, or what should be debated in a Town Hall - or what warrants a deeper look in the form of a Reality Check.

The producers then go over all of the ideas and choose the stories we'll pursue for that show.

At this point our researchers start "chasing" or investigating the stories. They contact the viewers behind the stories. They speak with companies, doctors, lawyers and other experts to gather, fact-check, and confirm their information.

The researchers then pass their reports on to the field producers who write a script, find locations and props - and track down teens to appear in their segments. It usually takes the field producers one or two days to shoot their segments and a couple of days to edit each one.

Each episode is made up of between six and nine segments - depending on the length of each item.

Once all of the field pieces are finished, they are sent to Halifax, where the post-producers put all the elements together in the edit suite. They add visual effects, music and lots of sound effects to turn Street Cents into the show you see on TV.

…and then we do it all over again the next week!

Listen to the Streetcents Theme.

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Click here for info and pics of Connie, Kim and Darryl.

Click here to read about the International Emmy and other awards Street Cents has won