Freestyle (radio program)
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Freestyle is a radio program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio One, hosted by Marsha Lederman and Cameron Phillips, and produced by Anna Bonokoski. (Kelly Ryan co-hosted with Phillips until December 2006.)
Freestyle combines contemporary music with generally irreverent stories from Canada and the rest of the world. The show also features regular commentators including "music guy" Daniel Levitin and book reviewer Sara O'Leary. It first aired on November 9, 2005, replacing The Roundup.
The program's cancellation was announced January 17, 2007. It will be replaced by a new arts-magazine program hosted by Jian Ghomeshi scheduled to begin in March, 2007.
[edit] Scheduling
Officially, Freestyle airs weekdays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. However, it is also one of the most variably-scheduled programs on the network — some stations air only the first hour of the program, while others shift the program to the 1:00 to 3:00 slot, and still others don't air the program at all.
Only the first hour of Freestyle airs in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver. In each of those markets, the local afternoon program starts at 3:00 p.m. instead of 4:00. However, the stations' rebroadcast transmitters outside of the main markets air all of Freestyle and then join the host station's local program in progress at 4:00.
In Toronto and Winnipeg, Freestyle airs from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., airing the whole program but preempting the final hour of the regional noon-hour shows. Again, however, rebroadcast transmitters outside of the cities themselves air all of the noon shows, then run Freestyle in its normal time slot and join the local afternoon shows in progress at 4:00 p.m.
The program does not air at all in the Northwest Territories or Nunavut, as the CBC North stations in those territories entirely preempt the program in order to offer special local programming in aboriginal languages.
