Starter of this subject: Morris Joseph
Last post in this subject: 6/6/2002
Messages in this subject: 1
| Morris Joseph | 6/6/2002 1 replies |
| For many years Toronto radio station CHUM-FM (104.5) has been broadcasting old-time radio programs on its series called "Theatre of the Mind" every Sunday night at 11:00 PM EST. For the past year, they have been featuring Victor Ives' Golden Age of Radio Theatre in that time spot. Next Sunday night (June 9) this series will be broadcasting its last programs as CHUM-FM ends its OTR feature. Unfortunately, this leaves Toronto without a station that broadcasts any OTR; however, Hamilton's CHML AM-900 still has OTR on Sunday nights from 9 to 11 PM. |
| Geoff Loker | 6/7/2002 0 replies |
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It's not entirely true that Toronto will left without any station doing OTR. On CBC Radio One (FM 99.1), on Sunday mornings from 7:00AM to 7:30AM, they usually have an "Archival Moment", although it seems to be a bit more fluid when working around long weekends, such as Easter or Christmas, in which case, it could happen on Saturday mornings between 7:00AM and 8:00AM, or after 8:00AM on Sunday mornings. Often the Archival Moment selected is thematic (when Frank Shuster died, they had an old Wayne & Shuster show from 1952; around Christmas, they had Christmas snippets; etc), but they can be almost anything from the history of broadcasting within the CBC. I have heard news shows, gardening shows, dramatizations, comedy, music, etc. It's a grab-bag, but it can be quite interesting.
If you just want to hear radio drama and don't care if it's OTR or not, then CBC Radio One (FM 99.1) runs "The Mystery Project" on Friday afternoons at 3:30PM or Saturday evenings at 6:30PM. On Sunday evenings at 10:00PM, they have their "Sunday Showcase" for radio dramas of all sorts. On Monday evenings, CBC Radio Two (FM 94.1) replays the "Sunday Showcase" drama in their "Monday Night Playhouse" timeslot. And CBC will quite often have other radioplays slotted in throughout the we |