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Happy Holiday Season to all & may the end of 2009 hold relaxation & mellow reflecting on another year gone by. Easier to attain then you think:
From the Facebook group, The Strombo Show: "Anyone listening in strange wintery places? Dare we say, an All-Country Sad Off tonight? Bob is in with his Saddest Country songs. The Strombo show continues with our last show of 2009. 8pm- Midnight All Across Canada. Saving Radio 2. (That's a joke) Commercial Free. Fife Master's, Parisian hipsters, Twins and Love and... Porn are just some of the things we will be serving up tonight." Stream Online http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/ Radio Frequency http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/ Mobile Application http://www.cbc.ca/mobile/iphone/
The Hour's shows for Dec 28 - Jan 1
Mon, Dec 28 Michael Moore, Nickelback, Morgan Freeman
Tues, Dec 29 Howie Mandel, Michaelle Jean, Stephen King
Wed, Dec 30 Andre Agassi, Jimmy Carter, Drew Barrymore
Thur, Dec 31 NYE SPECIAL ~ Featuring Al Gore
Fri, Dec 1st~ Repeat: NYE SPECIAL
Don't forget, if you didn't get a chance to see The Hour's Holiday Music Special you can watch it on their site: cbc.ca/thehour AND.... if there's any tracks from the show that you can't do without, you can download them HERE.
Happy New Year's Everyone!
The Hour will continue the season with brand new shows, starting on Mon, January 4th, 2010.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Monday, December 21
It's the much anticipated Hour Music Special with an amazing roster of talent! Guests appearing include:
Norah Jones
Anvil
Tuesday, December 22
During the much deserved Holiday Hiatus from taping, The Hour will bring you some of the best interviews from all of 2009, including...
Comedic Master Carol Burnett Journalist John Roberts
Snoop Dogg
Wednesday, December 23
Talk Show Legend Larry King
Comedian Martin Short
Canadian Icon Anne Murray
Thursday, December 24th
Because once isn't enough, The Hour's music special is on for a repeat performance. Here's a sneak peek of Michael Buble's performance...
Friday, December 25th
And to keep the festivities going, it's a repeat of the first Music Special from 2007.
I hope everyone has a wonderful and festive holiday. Don't forget that the New Year's Eve Special is just around the corner. Tickets are already available for the in-studio version of The Hour, make sure you check out the ticket availability page for more information.
Are you ready for Christmas or are you already participating in Chanukah festivities? Are your halls decked? Cookies baked? Shopping done...or even started? The two weeks leading up to Christmas always seem to be the busiest weeks of the year. But, in all the holiday hustle and bustle, you must recharge your batteries with a little downtime. Speaking of (ya, crappy segue), this is the last week that The Hour will be taping until January 2010. I just checked and as of now there are still some tickets available for this week.
Unfourtunately, we have not yet received a list of the guests scheduled to appear on The Hour this week. Therefore, the following may be subject to change...time will tell.
Monday, December 14th
Head of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, Paul Kennedy.
A few weeks ago, George had mentioned the story of six year old Elena Desserich. Elena, suffering from brain cancer, knew she was dying. In the time she had left, she began leaving hundreds of notes hidden everywhere in her family home. Her parents, Keith & Brooke Desserich have compiled these notes into a book, Notes Left Behind 135 days with Elena. Keith will be on The Hour. I could write more, but instead I would ask that you watch the brief clip below, as it will preview Elena's story far better than I could.
Canadian musician, author and activist Matthew Good makes a return visit to The Hour.
Thursday, December 17th
Actor, writer, animator, director and Monty Python alumni Terry Gilliam.
In case you missed the memo, the world will be coming to Vancouver in February! No one is more aware of this fact than John Furlong, Chief Executive Officer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Presumably, Mr. Furlong will be providing an update on the Vancouver preparations as the Olymic Torch is currently making its way across Canada. This week "the flame" will be passing through my community. Has it come to your town yet? Let us know!
Friday, December 18th
This "best of show" includes Stephen King, Shawn Ashmore and Anika Noni Rose.
In other news...
Did you happen to catch the holiday special Deck the Halls with Steven and Chris? You can watch it here. George participated in the show and created a rather 'interesting' gingerbread house, now up for auction on Ebay. Proceeds from the sale of George's creation will go to Serve Canada, an organization that "empowers youth to become caring, confident, and contributing members of their community through experience-based learning". Also still up for grabs on Ebay is that infamous Toronto Maple Leafs jersey!
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CBC Learning has released a five volume DVD set of The Hour for use in the classroom. The set includes "The Hour’s best interviews on key curriculum-relevant subjects, including politics, civics, the environment, business and character education". If you are an educator, you may want to check it out. Also, if you have someone on your gift list who is a fan of CBC programming, be sure to check out the CBC Shop Online.
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And finally...don't forget to cast your vote for The Moose Award.
New!! Bidding is done! The jersey earned $635.00 George posted this plea on twitter today Get this complicated jersey out of my life & help raise dough for the Stephen Lewis Foundation http://tr.im/H7D4 (@stephenlewisfdn) #leafs
How did George earn a Maple Leafs jersey? Only on a dare! You may want to view episode 28 to see The die hard Habs fan wear the blue and white Maple Leafs jersey while figure skating with Kurt Browning.
At the time of this post the bidding was at $280 Bidding closes December 18th at 11AM EST!
*This article in NOWasks The Frantics Comedy troupe (love the Frantics!) a few questions. A couple of the questions are Strombo related. also *There is voting going on over at The Hour's website for the Moose Awards. There are twenty nominees making the news over the past year that will be whittled down to one newsworthy Moosie winner to be declared on New Years Eve. Go check out the details and vote with your heart and your head if you like because you get to vote for more that one Moosie favourite Did I mention Al Gorewill be a featured guest for this New Years Eve Special? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday Dec 06 The Strombo Show Don't have a radio handy to listen to The Strombo Show? If you have an iPhone, there is an app for that.
The Strombo Shows starts at 8 pm Sunday up until Midnight on CBC Radio 2 http://www.cbc.ca/radio2 (To listen online) . If you aren't near a radio or a computer and you have an iphone, check the CBC Radio App.
The Strombo Show fans, thanks to Mariposaland, have a newchat roomfriendly listeners are welcome to join. Just register and chat while the radio show rolls...
Strombo wants you to call him... They are still looking for your song requests... 416-205-6226. Long distance charges may apply. Sorry about it being a Toronto Ontario number a 1-800 is still in the works...
MONDAY DEC 7 On the show tonight Journalist and WriterSir Harold Evans
and Toronto Raptor' s own Olympic Gold medal winning All Star Chris Bosh
TUESDAY DEC 8
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Shawn Atleo
and
Mark Bresslinfounder of the Yuk Yuks empire, has produced TV and hosted Radio
Norah Jones is a Grammy award winning American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress. Oh yeah and she has a new album out. The Fall.
As The Hour goes into the last three weeks of production in 2009 and the Rick Mercer Report goes dark until 2010, CBC Toronto is helping to make a difference in the Greater Toronto Area with a few charitable initiatives...
This Friday, December 4th, the Glen Gould theatre will come alive with the annual Sounds of the Seasons, a full day of live, on air performances from some of Canada's favourite performers. Starting at 5:30 am with Metro Morning, the day's line up includes Matt Dusk, Hawksley Workman, Jully Black and many more according to the schedule.
The Sounds of the Seasons Silent Auction has a wealth of unique items to bid on donated from a variety of CBC shows, including a package to attend a taping of The Hour and dinner at a Prime Restaurant.
Speaking of The Hour, everyone attending live tapings in studio from now until the last 2009 taping on December 17th is encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Sounds of the Season initiative. Donation bins are located next to the Sign In desk.
Last year, Sounds of the Season raised over $300 000 and 8500 pounds of food for the Daily Bread Food Bank. This year, Sounds of the Season will help support food banks across the Greater Toronto Region.
In other CBC fundraising news, The Rick Mercer Report teamed up with a group of Sheridan Institute students for the last two tapings of 2010 to raise funds and collect new, unwrapped toys for children who will spend the holidays in McMaster Children's Hospital. At the November 27th taping, it was announced that the initiative had successfully raised over $1000 dollars and collected over 300 toys.
This post focuses on the fundraising initiatives at CBC Toronto, but now we want to hear from YOU about what's going on in your community. Leave us a comment on this post to let us know what's happening in your community to help the less fortunate during the holiday season. Let's give our local charities some national exposure!
