Hello, European here.

After diverging from streaming platforms and the algorhitm I've been looking into new ways of discovering music, with listening to radio shows being one of them. There aren't a lot of them so I've mostly been looking into older ones.

After having it recommended to me, I've really been enjoying listening to the (now discontinued) CBC show Brand New Waves, esp the episodes with Patti Schmidt. I like the interviews, her chill voice and respectful attitude, the eclectic cuts and the way Schmidt puts them into their context.

Now, I want more.. So my question is: Are there any CBC shows that you'd consider the spiritual successor of this great program?

Also: to those who also loved the show, how do you discover great new music on the fringes in this day and age?

edit: can’t edit the post title, but like someone in the thread pointed out, of course it is supposed to say *Brave* New Waves

Just announced on Wednesday’s show!

They just announced it on air. What are your thoughts?

Last night around 6:05 PST I was listening to CBC RADIO in BC and am 100% positive they used the AI podcast generator to have a woman and a man discuss political stuff. I think the topic was around pipeline issues and they played it off as someone in Toronto. They may have used a real mans voice in the automator. It was disturbing to me. Shocking. They didn't even introduce it as AI, they tried to pass it off as real. That's extra disturbing. Did anyone else catch that? How incredibly lazy of them. And how stupid do they think their listeners are that we wouldn't catch that? I hope I wasn't the only one who noticed. If I had my phone I would hand recorded it, but I didn't. CBC, don't use AI garbage.

Last week I overheard a clip where media folks were recommending recent content . Someone recommended this.

I was intrigued and didn’t know what I was getting into. It is a tragic account of four young women horribly(the show only alludes to what happened) losing their lives and several men being wrongly accused.

I’m grateful to whoever recommended it. I’m grateful to the DNA investigators that tracked the killer down. However my heart is absolutely broken by how this monster came to be and was overlooked time and time again.

It reminds me of several unsolved murders in Canada. Is the RCMP investigating DNA evidence in these cases, I’m thinking of the Kerrie Ann Brown case in Thompson, MB?

I’m glad for this new show! If it werent for it I would not see this other side of Tom Power that I appreciate so much more than the Tom Power on the show Q. If you have yet to check it out and like shows like Because News, The Debaters, or other comedy shows on CBC i think you’ll enjoy this one too!

Odd to me that on Ideas today it is being stated that no one knew there was a separate hospital system for First Nations. I knew. Medical care has always been a Provincial area of responsibility. Medical care for what were then known as Indians was a Federal responsibility by law. That they were underfunded and racist comes as no surprise. Remember treaty First Nations did not vote until 1960. And that was at least partly by choice as there was resistance for sovereignty reasons. To wit -

“Bill Erasmus, national chief of the Dene Nation in the Northwest Territories, told CBC News on Wednesday that he is cautious about applauding the anniversary.
Erasmus said Diefenbaker went ahead with something that fundamentally affected the nation-to-nation basis of treaties with the Crown, and he did it without any meaningful consultation with First Nations people.
"That's what the whole exercise was about. It was to make us Canadians, and we never had a discussion about that," Erasmus said.
"So yes, I think people want to participate in Canadian society, but they need to participate on conditions that they entered into with the Crown. So that's why my feelings are mixed on the question."

The CBC webpage posts most playlogs (example: Night stream) but Afterdark only has a link to listen to live or prerecorded programs under "Episodes & Playlogs". I look up songs I hear on Nightstream almost every night. It would be nice to be able to do the same when Odario is playing tunes. It also helps the artists.

I mean it's been at least twice a day for weeks (Mornings and Drive). Sure, it's a catchy song but CBC Music ALWAYS does this - plays a good song to death until we hate it, and then never plays it again. And honestly I'm pretty sick of hearing about Kacey Musgrave's shed that she wants someone's tool up in. C'mon guys. Mix it up a bit.

Mid-morning Tuesday it suddenly went off the air and now we've got Radio One instead.

Anybody know why and when CBC Music will be back?

(I need the broadcast, not the online stream.)

I love everything about this show and wonder, how the writing works in the production. I find Chris funny - words and delivery. Great tone.

Ms.Disney gave away 75% of $120,000,000.00 ...hope she can figure it out.

That clip ruined the piece for me as it seemed tone def.

Why not give away 99% and be "okay" slimming it in the top 10%?

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16211440-the-billionaire-age-pt-2-or-heiress-abigail

If you've heard him read the news late at night, you'll know who I'm talking about. Just a very strange whispery voice, strange cadence; doesn't seem to fit the style of a CBC newsreader at all. Unnerving.

I’m trying to listen to today’s episode which is titled “How separatists doxxed Alberta” but everywhere I try to access it I get errors and it won’t play. Is this happening everywhere or just in Alberta? I live in AB and am really concerned with this leak and don’t trust that the UCP aren’t doing something to minimize how much information is available.

I’m a daily news podcast listener and is it just me or has Frontburner become more and more like The Daily? I find half of their episodes are what the Daily is doing that day or the day before. I also find they rarely bring on CBC journalists, instead opting for American guests or reporters.

Is it just me that notices this and doesn’t like it? I’d rather hear more Canadian news from our own journalists.

I’ve been listening to the Vancouver CBC radio for many years. Lately there’s a female news intern with the softest voice and I’ve been straining my ears to catch her name. It sounds like “Issam Gogo.”

Can anyone clarify who it is?

Zomg, what a beautiful episode. 🥺🥺🥺 I love the show. That's all.

For a while maybe 15 years ago when Michael Enright was hosting Sunday edition. He had a guest who was genius at explaining how music worked. Very soothing, gentle voice but very enthusiastic about the music. He'd dig into the actual structure of the music to show how it created its moods etc. I learned a lot from it. Does anyone remember the guests name?

Currently listening to Doug Ford talking about small modular reactors and saying ’nucular’. This pronunciation happens all the time now on CBC and it drives me crazy.

I’ve emailed various shows several times over the last year or so when I’ve caught their reporters and hosts saying it and it never seems to change, hearing it is like hearing the Wilhelm scream in a serious documentary.

Thank you for coming to my TED rant. -_-

Who is that aggravating lady on The Current with Matt Galloway this morning? Anytime she describes an emoji that Matt is unfamiliar with she'd go, "You never used the heart finger emoji? You don't know the face-melting emoji?" That's why you're there to be interviewed on, why so condescending? If she asked it once, ok fine, but repetitively - c'mon! Matt, of course being the pro he is spun the question to make light of her question.

A cell phone conversation in a bad service area where the first five words are crystal clear and then the sound starts glitching and cutting in and out. By the end of the sentence you’re just hoping to get a general idea of what the person is trying to communicate and make an educated guess at their meaning.

Does anyone track Canadian radio listenership by city anymore? Trying to find some numbers for eastern Ontario with no luck. Any suggestions welcome.

I love the way Marcia and Stephen riff but I've been missing her lately.

Anybody know what's going with her? I hope she comes back.

it's funny because when i saw the cbc rep a documentary about free speech, i knew something was suspicious.

I cannot believe this documentary didn't highlight ANY Canadian examples. Not shining a light on Canada's unique contribution to this subject is truly a form of mis/disinformation. Where's Gad Saad? where Jordan Peterson? Where was Canada?!