Q (radio show)
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| Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Country | Canada |
| Home station | CBC Radio One |
| Syndicates | Public Radio International (USA) |
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| Recording studio | Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto |
| Air dates | since April 16, 2007 |
| Website | www |
| Podcast | www |
 Joni Mitchell on Q - Part 1, 32:43, June 11, 2013, q on CBC
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Wayne Gretzky’s ’99 Stories of the Game', 24:47, October 17, 2016, q on CBC
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Q (styled q) is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International. The program mainly features interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, though subjects and interviewees also deal with broader cultural topics such as their social, political and business aspects, as well as weekly panels on sports and media issues on Mondays and Fridays respectively.
Though not the highest-rated show on CBC Radio One (The Current and As It Happens hold that distinction), Q is the highest rated show in its timeslot in CBC history, surpassing even Peter Gzowski who previously hosted the second hour of Morningside during the slot. The show is also regarded as standing out in CBC Radio One's schedule through attracting a younger, more social-media-adept audience than other CBC Radio programming.
Q launched in April 2007 and was hosted by Jian Ghomeshi until October 2014.
Shad was chosen by the CBC in March 2015 as Q's new permanent host. His official debut as host was April 20. The show was also re-branded as q at the same time. In August 2016, the CBC announced that Shad would be replaced as host by Tom Power, formerly the host of Radio 2 Morning, in the fall. Power debuted as host on October 24, 2016.
The program airs live Monday to Friday at 10:00 a.m. (10:30 NT), and an abbreviated edition of the morning show is then repeated 12 hours later. The program runs for 90 minutes, except for Fridays, which runs for two hours and includes the "Friday Live" segment. The evening repeat runs for one hour, although due to lesser time restraints (such as less time lost to news breaks) it is able on most days to air all of the feature content from the 90-minute daytime edition, although some shorter interstitial segments are edited out. Stations carrying the show in the United States also broadcast the one-hour edition.
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