Saturday Afternoon at the Opera is a Canadian radio program, which airs Saturday afternoons on CBC Radio 2. Currently hosted by Bill Richardson, the program airs live and pre-recorded opera concert performances, as well as interviews with opera artists, reviews of opera CDs and a weekly opera quiz hosted by Stuart Hamilton.
CBC Radio One's pop culture newsmagazine Definitely Not the Opera took its name from the fact that it airs at the same time as SATO.
SATO includes the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts during its season from late November to April each year. These broadcasts are aired in their entirety, including sponsorships, representing one of only two forms of advertising currently permitted on CBC Radio.[1] However, the current sponsor, Toll Brothers, does not actually operate in Canada.