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16-459: The program, hosted by Saroja Coelho since late-April 2024, presents a variety of information programs from international broadcasters around the world. At the top of each hour, a regular CBC news update is aired, lasting four and a half minutes. Previous hosts of the program included Cathy Haag, Bernie MacNamee, Pep Philpott, and Jeff Goodes. However, apart from the news updates, the program's content consists primarily of complete programs produced by

32-472: A guest expert questions. However, that feature has been supplanted by a new live Saturday afternoon show, Just Asking , which is dedicated to that activity. The show was first broadcast on May 16, 1965, when it was started to provide a nationwide forum to discuss the then-proposed national health insurance system now in place in Canada . The first host was CBC Montreal announcer Bob Cadman, and its first guest

48-434: A lively exchange of ideas between callers and invited guests, and a broad cross-section of opinion on the topic of the day. On average, 5,000 to 10,000 people attempt to call the program during the broadcast to join the discussion. The show's current format takes calls on two topics for the show, one for each hour. The show previously had a segment called "Ask Me Anything" in which listeners were invited to call or write to ask

64-599: The CBC or other public broadcasters; the host's main role is to voice prerecorded interstitial announcements of the next program coming to air. The program premiered on May 1, 1995, with its programs sourced from the new World Radio Network . Prior to the program's launch, CBC Radio One signed off during the overnight hours. It had briefly experimented with a 24-hour schedule beginning in January 1991, with overnight programming consisting of repeats of its daytime programming, but this

80-519: The United States, London Broadcasting Company (as it was then known) in Britain or the CBC's own Radio Canada International , and taking calls from English-speaking callers in all involved countries. In each case, callers generally call a toll-free number in their own country. Checkup , nevertheless, often receives calls from callers outside Canada. For the 2016–2017 season, the show changed

96-508: The block is filled with programs from Australia's ABC Radio National and the BBC World Service ; some programming from RTÉ Radio 1 and Deutsche Welle also airs on weekends. This article about a radio show or program in Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Saroja Coelho Saroja Coelho is a Canadian journalist and radio personality, currently the weekend host of Mornings on CBC Music ,

112-426: The block's schedule, with all programming on weeknights coming from the BBC World Service and Radio Canada International ; with the dissolution of Radio Canada International in 2012, The Link was replaced with Public Radio International 's The World and a repeat airing of the previous day's edition of CBC Radio's morning show The Current . In 2013, the program added content from Monocle 24 . The remainder of

128-591: The call-in show Just Asking on CBC Radio One , and the CBC Radio Overnight block. Originally from Toronto , Ontario , Coelho was a foreign correspondent, reporting from Asia and Eastern Europe for CBC, BBC , NPR , Deutsche Welle and National Geographic . In 2012, she became the host of Living Planet on Deutsche Welle, before returning to Canada to host Breakaway , the local afternoon program for CBC Radio One 's Quebec Community Network in 2016. She returned to Toronto in 2018, where she

144-421: The country, unlike most other Radio One programs, which air at the same local time in each time zone. The recording of the live show is rerun in a condensed format on Monday afternoons at 3 p.m. EST as Cross Country in an Hour . On extraordinary news occasions, the show may also produce a special episode outside of its regular broadcast time. Close to half-a-million listeners tune in every Sunday afternoon to hear

160-491: The first hour of the program has also been simulcast on television on CBC News Network . The program has been hosted by Ian Hanomansing since September 2020; he was initially announced as an interim host for the 2020–21 season while previous host Duncan McCue was on an eight-month sabbatical, although his time with the program continued into 2022 before he was announced as the permanent host in June of that year. Every week,

176-536: The older call-in show, Cross Country Checkup , in the equivalent timeslot on Sundays. Coelho studied biology and political science at the University of Toronto , and was a coordinator of Women Active, Vocal, Effective and Strong, a leadership program for young girls, in the early 2000s. Cross Country Checkup Cross Country Checkup is a Canada-wide open-line phone-in talk radio show that airs Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One . Beginning in 2021,

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192-525: The position for 21 years. In September 2015, Murphy announced that he would be retiring from the program as of September 20. The program was hosted by a series of guest hosts through the first half of 2016, until McCue's appointment as the new permanent host was announced in July. On occasions in the past, the program has gone to air as Cross-Continent Checkup by involving a radio network in at least one other foreign country, such as National Public Radio in

208-449: The show features a lively discussion on an issue of national interest or importance and invites listeners to call in with their opinions and thoughts. The topics are usually related to Canadian politics . In addition to the host, the show has commentators who are experts or involved in the issue. They are interviewed by the host and answer questions from callers. The program is broadcast Sundays live at 4 p.m. Eastern Time Zone across

224-574: Was Dr Victor Goldbloom , then president of the Canadian Medical Association . When Checkup started broadcasting as a weekly series on November 24, 1965, Jim Schrumm was the first regular host. Subsequent hosts have included Brad Crandall , Moses Znaimer , Percy Saltzman , Betty Shapiro , John Dafoe , Pierre Pascau , Harry Elton , Elizabeth Gray , Wayne Grigsby , Dennis Trudeau, Augusta La Paix , Dale Goldhawk , Peter Downie , Royal Orr and Rex Murphy , who maintained

240-467: Was a regular guest host of Here and Now during Gill Deacon 's health leave, and became host of Mornings after Raina Douris left the program in 2019. Just Asking , a weekly call-in show on lifestyle topics such as health, careers and investment, debuted on CBC Radio One in February 2024 on Saturday afternoons. First introduced as a one-hour show, it was later expanded to two hours to align with

256-557: Was discontinued by June of that year. CBC Radio Overnight may, however, be preempted in some markets when the CBC needs to temporarily shut down a local transmitter for maintenance, as overnight transmitter repairs are less disruptive than a daytime shutdown. Broadcasters whose programming has aired on Overnight included Radio Netherlands Worldwide , Radio Sweden , Radio Australia , Radio Prague , BBC World Service , Deutsche Welle , Radio Poland , Radio Romania International , and KBS World Radio . On October 27, 2009, CBC changed

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