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as sportscaster. In 1976 Don Connolly joined Don Tremaine as co-host, establishing a popular era of serious interviews balanced with "kitchen table" banter known to some as the "Two Dons". Don Tremaine retired in 1987 and was replaced by Joan Melanson. Elizabeth Logan served as co-host from 1991 to
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has often enjoyed the largest morning radio audience in Nova Scotia, although the show's ratings dipped to 2nd and third place in the 1980s in the wake of host changes and a national strike at CBC Radio in 1981. However, the show climbed back to No. 1 in the overall Halifax radio audience by 1990
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show was a "fast-paced, tightly made omnibus of news, weather, commentary, reviews and interviews," with the rumble of a distant teletype in the background. The Dartmouth Free Press's Stefan Haley called it well-done, intense and "hell on a hangover." It was part of the "Radio Revolution" at CBC
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who retired in September. Allen left in December 2017 to work for Environment Canada, and was eventually replaced by meteorologist Tina Simpkin on January 2, 2019. On November 20, 2017, Don Connolly announced that he would retire, ending 42 years with a last show on January 26, 2018. Nova Scotia
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is broadcast live from 6:00 am to 8:37 am. Interviews are mixed with the national CBC Radio News on the hour and local news on the half-hour along with weather and sports. The show regularly goes on the road to broadcast from location at communities around Nova Scotia.
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which usually attracts a large live audience. The 16th Birthday party was held at the Halifax Sheraton. The show currently features co-hosts Portia Clark and Louise Renault, with sportscaster John Hancock and meteorologist Brennan Allen, who in December 2016 replaced
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Radio which started in the late 1960s as the CBC sought more ambitious, live coverage of news and current affairs including listeners as well as experts, on shows such as
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host was Bob Oxley; with news by Frank Cameron and Brian Bullock; sports by George Young; and weather by Reid Dexter. In 1971, Don "Trigger" Tremaine became a host with
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until 2014 when the building was sold to a developer for demolition and the show moved to the new CBC Nova Scotia studios on 7067 Chebucto Road.
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and has been at the top of the ratings across most parts of the province while remaining the number one morning show in Halifax.
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Building an Information Morning Knowledge (XXG) Entry - Interview with Dan Conlin, CBC Radio, Friday June 14, 2013
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did a pioneering location broadcast on September 11, 2014, when the show was broadcast from the remote
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was the second regional CBC show in Canada to launch the new morning format, after CBC
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and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters on mainland Nova Scotia.
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was first broadcast on June 1, 1970. The original format of the morning
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Tina Simpkin joins CBC as new morning meteorologist for the Maritimes
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name is also used for morning programs on CBC Radio One outlets in
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began an annual tradition of a public "birthday show" at the
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The show featured long-time weatherman Peter Coade until 2016
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through the "Share the View" art calendar. On June 2, 1975,
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Information Morning birthday show special broadcast at the
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Pat Connolly, "Information Morning: 35 Good Years",
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2010. The show broadcast from the historic art deco
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Canada
CBHA-FM
www.cbc.ca/informationmorningns
www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/nova-scotia/ns-information-morning/
CBC Radio One
local morning show program
Nova Scotia
CBHA-FM
Halifax

CBC Radio Building
current affairs
As It Happens
Winnipeg
Time magazine
Gerry Fogarty
Halifax CBC Radio Building


Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Sable Island
food bank
Halifax waterfront
Peter Coade
CBI
Sydney
CBZF-FM
Fredericton
CBAM-FM

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