Metro Morning‘s Matt Galloway is the new host of CBC Radio One’s Podcast Playlist. Starting Thursday November 12, 2015 at 11 p.m., Galloway will join co-host Lindsay Michael in presenting the most intriguing podcast content. Galloway will continue to host Toronto’s #1 top rated local morning show, Metro Morning.
Podcast Playlist is a one-hour radio program where Galloway and Michael give Canadians a taste of the exciting range of podcasts from North America and around the world. The Podcast Playlist team listens to hundreds of podcasts and curates the very best around a different theme each week.
“Matt Galloway is the perfect choice to co-host this program,” says Leslie Merklinger, Director of New Programs and Talent Development, Network Talk, CBC Radio and Audio, “Matt is an engaged and enthusiastic podcast fan with a keen awareness of the most exciting and ground-breaking content out there and we are thrilled he is joining the show.”
Now in its second season, Podcast Playlist‘s pilot series was launched in the summer of 2015, at a time when podcast production was on the rise and audio storytelling in this form was becoming exciting and relevant for a wide and growing audience. As the amount of content available to Canadians grew dizzying, CBC felt the time was right for a program to curate, celebrate and be a place of discovery for audiences.
PODCAST PLAYLIST airs Thursdays at 11 p.m., repeats Saturdays at 2pm on CBC Radio One.
For more information and ways to listen, please go to cbc.ca/podcastplaylist. You can also follow the show on Facebook at CBC Podcast Playlist and Twitter@podcastplaylist, and listen on demand with the CBC Radio App for iOS and Android.
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A space for us all is CBC/Radio-Canada’s new strategy to modernize the public broadcaster and ensure that it continues to fulfill its mandate for Canadians and for future generations. Through to 2020, it will increase its investment in prime time television programming, and continue to create radio programs of the highest quality, while promoting the development of digital and mobile platforms and content.
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For more information, please contact:
Nicola Makoway
CBC News & Current Affairs, CBC Radio One publicist
nicola.makoway@cbc.ca
(416) 205-7673
