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Focusing on a single Canadian musician or band each week, the series mixed interview segments and live performance clips in a documentary style. [2] It was a spinoff of the network's daily series Video Hits, which had in its final years sometimes devoted special episodes to a single musician or band under the name Video Hits Presents. [3]
When Paley heard a phonograph record of Bing Crosby, then a young unknown crooner, on a mid-ocean voyage, he rushed to the ship's radio room and cabled New York to sign Crosby immediately to a contract for a daily radio show. [17] While the CBS primetime lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit ...
Saturday Night Live Band. The Honeydrippers. The Blues Brothers. Paul Allen Wood Shaffer CM [ 2 ] (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian [ 3 ][ 4 ] singer, keyboardist, composer, actor, author, comedian, and musician who served as David Letterman 's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David ...
Q. Network. CBC Radio One. Country. Canada. Tom Power (born May 1, 1987) is a Canadian musician and broadcaster, best known as the host of Q on CBC Radio One, [1] previously the host of Deep Roots and Radio 2 Morning on CBC Radio 2. In August 2016, he was named as the permanent new host of Q, succeeding Shad. [2]
History of broadcasting in Canada. Radio was introduced in Canada in the late 1890s, although initially transmissions were limited to the dot-and-dashes of Morse code, and primarily used for point-to-point services, especially for maritime communication. The history of broadcasting in Canada dates to the early 1920s, as part of the worldwide ...
Arthur Morton Godfrey(August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. At the peak of his success, in the early to mid-1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, at times for as many as nine separate broadcasts for CBS. His programs included Arthur Godfrey ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. [ 5 ] It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada ...
Occupation (s) media personality, musician, writer. Instrument. vocalist. Years active. 1989–present. Grant Lawrence (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian broadcaster, musician and bestselling author based in Vancouver, primarily associated with CBC Music and CBC Radio 3. Lawrence was also the vocalist for the indie rock group The Smugglers.