Ontario Today

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Ontario Today
Running time12:00 pm1:00 pm
Country of origin Canada
Language(s)English
Home station CBC Radio One
Hosted byAmanda Pfeffer
Recording studio CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre
Website cbc.ca/ontariotoday

Ontario Today is a Canadian talk radio program on CBC Radio One. The program is broadcast live from the studios of CBO-FM in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre weekdays, and it is carried on all CBC Radio One transmitters in Ontario. The program generally consists of news reports for the first half-hour, followed by a half-hour call-in segment on various topics.

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Currently hosted by Amanda Pfeffer, the program was previously hosted by Alan Neal from 2003 to 2006, and by Rita Celli from 2006 to 2023. [1] Ontario Today launched in 1997 as a province-wide two-hour programme produced out of CBC Ottawa, replacing Radio Noon , which was the umbrella name of five different midday programmes by CBC Radio stations in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, Sudbury, and Thunder Bay. [2] Radio Noon, had consisted of an hour from noon to one that was locally produced while the second hour was a province-wide phone-in. [3] [4] [5] Radio Noon continues to be the name of the similar noon-hour programs on CBC Radio One's stations in Manitoba, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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References

  1. "Longtime Ontario Today host Rita Celli retires". CBC News Ottawa, November 23, 2023.
  2. "Radio Noons chopped CBC replaces five regional shows with one". The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]09 June 1997: C.2.
  3. "New format emphasizes news": [FINAL Edition] Shaw, Ted. The Windsor Star; Windsor, Ont. [Windsor, Ont]20 Aug 1997: E.5.
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