Realtime (radio show)
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Realtime was a Canadian
radio show, which aired Saturday evenings on CBC Stereo from 1994 to 1997.
Hosted by Leora Kornfeld
, the series was a pop culture magazine and interview show which was billed as the first live radio program in the world to integrate Internet
technologies such as e-mail
and IRC into its program format. Listeners could interact with the show, either by Internet or telephone, as it aired: asking questions of an interview guest, requesting songs, offering feedback on the show, participating in on-air polls, and so forth. On one occasion, listeners were asked to vote on which of three different Sloan
concerts would be aired that evening.
The show was the first in the world to stream a live call-in radio show simultaneously on FM radio and the internet using Real Audio in 1994. The show had one of the first web sites on CBC, created by Loc Dao.
The show's production team included executive producer Robert Ouimet, senior producer Chris Straw, producer Thomas Hunt and technician Loc Dao. Loc became a producer on the show in 1995.
The last episode of Realtime aired on June 28, 1997. In the fall, Kornfeld and David Wisdom
, formerly the host of Nightlines
, debuted as cohosts of the new series RadioSonic
, which itself later evolved into today's CBC Radio 3
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
radio show, which aired Saturday evenings on CBC Stereo from 1994 to 1997.
Hosted by Leora Kornfeld
Leora Kornfeld
Leora Kornfeld is a Canadian businessperson and former radio personality. She was best known for hosting Realtime on CBC Stereo in the 1990s, which was billed as the first radio program in the world to integrate emerging Internet technologies such as e-mail and IRC into its program format.Kornfeld...
, the series was a pop culture magazine and interview show which was billed as the first live radio program in the world to integrate Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
technologies such as e-mail
E-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
and IRC into its program format. Listeners could interact with the show, either by Internet or telephone, as it aired: asking questions of an interview guest, requesting songs, offering feedback on the show, participating in on-air polls, and so forth. On one occasion, listeners were asked to vote on which of three different Sloan
Sloan (band)
Sloan is a Toronto-based alternative rock quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs , two EPs, a live album, a "best of" collection and no less than thirty singles...
concerts would be aired that evening.
The show was the first in the world to stream a live call-in radio show simultaneously on FM radio and the internet using Real Audio in 1994. The show had one of the first web sites on CBC, created by Loc Dao.
The show's production team included executive producer Robert Ouimet, senior producer Chris Straw, producer Thomas Hunt and technician Loc Dao. Loc became a producer on the show in 1995.
The last episode of Realtime aired on June 28, 1997. In the fall, Kornfeld and David Wisdom
David Wisdom
David Wisdom is a former Canadian radio personality, who hosted the music programs Nightlines, RadioSonic, Radio-On, and Pearls of Wisdom on CBC Radio 2. He has been called "the Canadian equivalent of John Peel"...
, formerly the host of Nightlines
Nightlines
Nightlines was a Canadian radio series, which aired on CBC Stereo from 1982 to 1997. The show, which aired on Friday and Saturday nights, profiled independent and alternative music.The show's original host was Ron Robinson...
, debuted as cohosts of the new series RadioSonic
RadioSonic
RadioSonic was a Canadian radio program, which aired on CBC Radio 2 from 1997 to 2003.RadioSonic, which aired on Saturday evenings, was originally created by combining two predecessor programs, David Wisdom's Nightlines and Leora Kornfeld's Realtime. Both Wisdom and Kornfeld remained as hosts of...
, which itself later evolved into today's CBC Radio 3
CBC Radio 3
CBC Radio 3 is a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio and streaming audio, and several daily and weekly podcasts from the CBC Radio 3 website...
.
External links
- http://www.johnlydon.com/CBC.HTMTranscript of a Realtime interview with John LydonJohn LydonJohn Joseph Lydon , also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s...
] - http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/94_95/95cbc.shtmlTranscript of a Realtime interview with Gillian AndersonGillian AndersonGillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress.After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. During the show's nine seasons, Anderson won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen...
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