After eight years on the air, CBC News: Sunday taped their final morning show in front of a full house in the atrium of the CBC building in Toronto on Sunday.

You can watch the show here. Here are a few pictures of the event.

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	Behind the Scenes, CBC News: Sunday	Posted at 11:56 am (02 Jun 2009)

Sometimes, you just can’t cut a break.
    The Globe and Mail is reporting this morning that ABC has made a last-minute scheduling change of its reality show The One: Making a Music Star — a change that may force CBC-TV to move The National one more time this summer.
     ABC programming executives apparently made the decision late last week (gee, thanks for the advance notice, ABC!) to air a two-hour recap show on Wednesdays. It wasn’t clear whether the rescheduling would continue through The One’s full run or this was a one-off thing.
    Kirstine Layfield, CBC TV programming executive, told the Globe that such last-minute changes are in the nature of simulcast. "This happens to CTV and Global all the time. They are having to redo their schedules constantly. We’re fortunate in the sense that we only have one show that we’re dealing with like this."
    The National, of course, continues to air unadulterated on CBC Newsworld. "We’re very proud of The National," said Layfield. "I just hope that gets across."

I kind of get the sense that ABC really doesn’t consider CBC to be a partner at all in this. I suppose it’s just part of the regular "mouse in the elephant’s shadow" syndrome that affects most Canada-USA relations. But really, I mean they are using one of our top people (Strombo) for their programming. The least they can do is include us in conference calls about this kind of stuff.

Globe and Mail, July 18 2006

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