CBC Radio 2 will be adjusting its schedule early next month. Here are the details:

• Bill Richardson will host Saturday Afternoon at the Opera (Saturdays 1:00-6:00pm) and Sunday Afternoon in Concert (Sundays 1:00-5:00pm)
• Patti Schmidt will host a new music and ideas program called Inside the Music. It will be a highly produced show that features one-off and limited series documentaries about music (Sundays 12:00-1:00pm).
• Andre Alexis and Skylarking move to Sundays at 5:00pm.
• Pianist Gregory Charles hosts a new show called In The Key of Charles. He is a well-known personality in Quebec as a broadcaster, choral director, and performer, and he will be hosting the show sitting at his piano. (Sundays 10:00am-12:00pm)
• Canada Live will no longer have a national host. The nine regional hosts will host the show when it comes from their locations.
• More hourly newscasts will be added to the schedule. National news and regional weather forecasts will air at 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 12:00, 15:00, 16:00, and 17:00. The newscasts will expand to 5 minutes in length.
• Jowi Taylor will host Nightstream, the overnight music program.
• The Sunday schedule on Radio One will change as follows:
  • o Inside the Music (8-9pm)
  • o In The Key of Charles (9-11pm)
  • o Tonic (11pm-1am)
• The following programs will be cancelled: Symphony Hall, The Singer and The Song, and Fuse will be moved off of Radio Two

So… what do you think?

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	CBC Radio 2, Canada Live	Posted at 9:56 am (21 Sep 2007)

CBC Radio 2 and Espace musique is working on a really cool sounding broadcast celebrating the life of Glenn Gould. It’s a 10-day event from September 25 through to October 4. (The dates are significant; September 25 would have marked Gould’s 75th birthday, while October 4 marks the 25th anniversary of his death.)

But I think the really cool part of the project will be a live broadcast from six different cities — each city hosting its own pianist doing a variation of Gould’s music.

While the concert is going on, photos sent in by Canadians will be mixed live by a visual DJ. You can send in your photos here.

I was in Montreal earlier this week and I chatted with Hugues Sweeney, one of the CBC/Radio-Canada people working on the project. (In the video, I misspelled Hugues’ first name. Agh.)

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	CBC Radio 2, Canada Live, Radio-Canada, Specials	Posted at 7:24 am (14 Sep 2007)