World Report is a Canadian radio news program, which airs weekdays at 5, 6, 7 and 8 AM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 6, 7, 8 and 9 AM, on CBC Radio One.
It currently lasts 10 minutes and focuses on major national and international news, allowing the local and regional programming during those timeslots to primarily focus their content on their own regions. The program's current weekday anchor as of November 21, 2022, is Marcia Young, and the weekend anchor is John Northcott.Connie Thiessen, "Young and Northcott named new hosts of CBC News: World Report". Broadcast Dialogue, November 17, 2022. The programme began in 1958 as The World at Eight and was called The World at Seven, The World at Eight or The World at Nine, depending on the hour and time zone in which it was heard, until October 1982 when it was renamed World Report.
Past hosts included Rex Loring,Greg Quill, "CBC's Rex Loring is tomorrow's news". Toronto Star, February 4, 1988. Judy Maddren,"Former CBC Radio host to be awarded by Governor General". Stratford Beacon-Herald, December 1, 2016. Russ Germain,Cassandra Szklarski, "Broadcaster anchored key CBC radio newscasts". Trail Times, February 4, 2009. Peter Armstrong,Vanessa Farquharson, "CBC News revamps its TV, radio brand". Regina Leader-Post, October 22, 2009. David CommonDavid Bradshaw, "Waiting in the wings for CBC's top anchor job". The Globe and Mail, September 7, 2016. and Nil Köksal.Kyle Duggan, "Politicos on the move: CBC World Report gets new host". iPolitics, March 2, 2018.
The program was originally broadcast on both CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2, but was removed from Radio 2's schedule in 2007.
From its inception until 1982, the theme music that ran as a sound bed under the headlines consisted of a series of radio beeps meant to emulate the sound transmitted by Sputnik 1.
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