The Sunday Edition (CBC Radio)

Last updated
The Sunday Edition
Genre news magazine/talk show
Country of origin Canada
Home station CBC Radio
Hosted by Michael Enright
Recording studio Toronto, Ontario
Original release2000 – September 6, 2020

The Sunday Edition was a Sunday morning radio show on CBC Radio One, hosted by Michael Enright. As the title might imply, the program was originally simply the Sunday edition of This Morning , which Enright co-hosted until the Sunday program became a separate entity in 2000. [1]

Contents

Its subject matter was wide ranging with current affairs, arts reporting, radio documentaries, and interviews. It was often quite sombre and serious in tone. However, The Sunday Edition is also listed among the 100 best April Fool's jokes of all time for its fake interview with Jimmy Carter on April 1, 2001. [2] The interview, which presented Carter as a "washed up peanut farmer" but seemingly neglected to mention his status as a former President of the United States, even fooled The Globe and Mail , which reported the interview as fact on its front pages. Toronto comedian Ray Landry played the role of Carter. [2]

The program was considered a ratings hit with 1.1 million people listening to at least part of the show in a typical week. [3]

An abbreviated edition of the program was repeated at midnight on Sunday nights, with the title, The Sunday Edition: Round Midnight.

Beginning in the fall of 2014, the program was cut from three hours in length to two, with the 11 am to noon slot being taken over by The 180 , a current affairs show based in Western Canada. [3] In 2017, following the cancellation of The 180, the program returned to three hours in length.

In May 2020, Enright announced that he would retire from the program effective June 28, to host a new one-hour weekly program for the CBC. [4]

An abbreviated 75-minute version of The Sunday Edition aired through the summer, presented by guest hosts such as Kevin Sylvester, Laurie Brown, Anthony Germain and Elamin Abdelmahmoud, which featured repeats of earlier interviews and segments and some new material. The last programme aired on September 6, 2020. [5]

Piya Chattopadhyay subsequently launched a new two-hour Sunday morning programme, The Sunday Magazine , which includes in-depth interviews and documentaries, on September 13, 2020. [6]

See also

Related Research Articles

As It Happens is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. Its 50th anniversary was celebrated on-air on November 16, 2018. It has been one of the most popular and acclaimed shows on CBC Radio.

CBC News Network is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel, it is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and Sky News in the United Kingdom.

The Current is a Canadian current affairs radio program which airs weekday mornings on CBC Radio One. It airs weekdays starting at 8:37 a.m. local time and runs until 10 a.m., and features interview sessions and radio documentaries that typically take up a half hour each.

<i>Definitely Not the Opera</i> Canadian pop culture radio program and podcast

Definitely Not the Opera was a magazine-style radio program focusing on aspects of pop culture and storytelling, that aired on CBC Radio One on Saturday afternoons from 1994 until 2016. The show's running time varied over the years, though it ran for a full hour in its final year. An abridged version of each program is available for download as a weekly podcast, with an abbreviated sister edition called Your DNTO, airing on Tuesday afternoons and featuring listener-submitted content.

The National is a Canadian national television news program which serves as the flagship broadcast for the English-language news division of CBC News by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It reports on major Canadian and international news stories, airing on CBC Television stations nationwide weeknights and Sundays at 10:00 p.m. local time.

CBC Music is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards a new "adult music" format with a variety of genres, with the classical genre generally restricted to midday hours. In 2009, Radio 2 averaged 2.1 million listeners weekly, and it was the second-largest radio network in Canada.

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info.

Avril Benoît is the executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the United States (MSF-USA). Previously, Ms. Benoît served as Director of Communications and Fundraising with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders at its operational centre based in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a Canadian former broadcaster best known for her radio programmes and documentaries on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. From 2006 to 2012, after two decades in journalism, she joined MSF in Canada as director of communications. She has worked as a humanitarian country director and project coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières, in Mauritania, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa.

Michael Enright is a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster. A high school dropout, Enright became a journalist after taking a University of Toronto extension course. As a journalist he held numerous positions at organizations such as The Globe and Mail, Time and Maclean's. He is best known for his long tenure as a CBC Radio host. Enright was the host of CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition from 2000 to 2020 and previously hosted As It Happens from 1987 until 1997 and co-hosted This Morning from 1997 to 2000. From 2009 until 2019, he hosted the archive show Rewind on CBC Radio One. He retired from CBC radio in 2020. Enright was the recipient of two honorary doctorates and was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2017.

This Morning was a Canadian radio program which aired from 1997 to 2002 on CBC Radio One. It was not always successful with CBC audiences, and underwent several format and hosting changes during its lifetime.

Morningside was a nationally broadcast Canadian radio program, which aired on CBC Radio from September 20, 1976 to May 30, 1997. It was broadcast from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday to Friday. The series replaced a series of short-lived morning radio programs that aired in this slot after This Country in the Morning ended in 1974.

Question Period is a Canadian television newsmagazine which airs weekly, currently excluding the summer months, on CTV Sundays at 11:00 AM ET/8:00 AM PT. It also airs on the CTV News Channel at 5:00 PM ET. The program, which takes its name from the parliamentary process of Question Period, is an interview and panel discussion program on Canadian politics, similar to an American Sunday morning talk show.

Sunday Morning was a Canadian radio news and information program, which aired on CBC Radio One from 1976 to 1997.

Laurie Brown is a Canadian television journalist. She grew up in Scarborough, Ontario and graduated from David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute. Her parents were originally from Nova Scotia, and when Brown was in her late teens, they and her sister Susan moved back to that province. Brown remained in Toronto, and eventually embarked on a career in television and radio broadcasting.

Metro Morning is CBC Radio One's local morning program in Toronto, airing on CBLA-FM. The program airs from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. weekday mornings, and has frequently been Toronto's highest-rated radio program in its timeslot. The program is currently hosted by Ismaila Alfa.

<i>Q</i> (radio show) Canadian radio show

q with Tom Power is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. The program mainly features interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, though subjects and interviewees also deal with broader cultural topics such as their social, political and business aspects, as well as weekly panels on television/film and music on Mondays and Fridays respectively.

Piya Chattopadhyay is a Canadian journalist and host of The Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio One.

The 180 was a Canadian radio talk show, which aired weekly on CBC Radio One from 2013 to 2017. Hosted by Jim Brown from the network's studio in Calgary, Alberta, the show highlighted issues in the news by interviewing guests with provocative or unusual perspectives that differ from conventional wisdom, in the hopes of sparking debate on topics of public interest. For instance, after the 2013 Supreme Court of Canada decision that struck down Canada's existing prostitution laws, while most media outlets interviewed sex workers about the decision The 180 opted to highlight a lesser-heard perspective by interviewing a pimp.

Out in the Open was a weekly Canadian current affairs radio program hosted by Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC Radio One. The show debuted on May 28, 2016, and was syndicated to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International/Public Radio Exchange. Its final episode aired on June 28, 2020.

The Sunday Magazine is a Canadian news and current affairs radio show, hosted by Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC Radio One. The program premiered on September 13, 2020, replacing The Sunday Edition, but retains a similar format of interviews and documentary reports on political, social and cultural topics in the news.

References

  1. ↑ "Rogers to host CBC Radio's This Morning". Kingston Whig-Standard , June 30, 2000.
  2. 1 2 "Interview With President Carter -- April Fool's Day, 2001". Museum of Hoaxes.
  3. 1 2 "CBC's popular The Sunday Edition to be cut down to two hours". The Globe and Mail . May 28, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ "CBC's Michael Enright to leave 'The Sunday Edition' for new one-hour radio program". Hamilton Spectator. The Canadian Press. May 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ "The Sunday Edition for September 6, 2020". CBC. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ Tahiat Mahboob (September 6, 2020). "Join Piya Chattopadhyay as she launches The Sunday Magazine". CBC. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.