Brave New Waves is a Canadian radio program, which airs weeknights from midnight to 4 a.m. on CBC Radio Two. The show profiles alternative and indie music and culture. CBC Radio Two is an FM radio network in Canada, operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
The show aired for the first time on February 5, 1984. Its original host was Augusta La Paix. The following year, La Paix left the show and was replaced by Brent Bambury. Throughout the 1980s, Brave New Waves was an enormously influential and legendary show, providing many Canadians without access to CFNY or campus radio with their main exposure to alternative music. When alternative rock became the dominant commercial genre of the 1990s, Brave New Waves kept its focus on the underground. It remains an important program for promoting music outside of the mainstream. February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brent Bambury is a Canadian radio and television personality, who has hosted a number of programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... CFNY was a groundbreaking free-format radio station based in the Toronto area. ... College radio (also known as university radio or campus radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college or university. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...
In 1995, Bambury left the program to become cohost of CBC television's Midday, and was replaced by Patti Schmidt. Schmidt remains the program's host as of 2005. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midday was a television newsmagazine series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which ran from 1984 to 2000. ... Patti Schmidt is the current host of Brave New Waves on CBC radio two. ... 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Buried in code within a CBC press release regarding the revamp of CBC Radio is the death of the late-night radio show called BraveNewWaves.
The irony is the mothership is targeting a younger demographic with their changes, but shoving the anemic new CBCR3 into a Sirius-only backwater and cancelling BraveNewWaves makes it clear the CBC doesn't give two shits about reaching that demographic at all.
There was nothing like BNW for going to sleep by, you'd be lulled nearly to sleep by some lull in a 10 minute long instreumtal sound painting only to be woken up violently when the song switched to loud chaotic noise.
BNW has taught me more about music and enriched and expanded my musical landscape more than any other program (on CBC or anywhere else for that matter), so much so that it even inspired me to become a volunteer radio programmer on CJSW in Calgary.
As a 23-year-old institution I’m sure that the BNW team headed by Schmidt amassed a wealth of contacts, experience, credibility and a reputation for excellence within the worldwide underground music community that will now be lost.
In the shadow of Schmidt’s BNW the dreck of the current 12-1am fill-in is painful to listen to and should not be called BraveNewWaves.
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