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CBC Radio Three is a website devoted to Canadian arts and music. Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ...


Operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Three had its genesis in a 1997 plan to open a third radio network, complementing CBC Radio One and CBC Radio Two, devoted to youth culture. Although the original radio network proposal was abandoned, the CBC launched Radio Three in 2000 as a pilot project through its new media division. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canadas government-owned radio and television broadcaster. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... CBC Radio Two is an FM radio network in Canada, operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...


A cross between a webzine and an Internet radio stream, Radio Three includes both writing and music. It consists of a cluster of related websites, including 120 Seconds, New Music Canada and Just Concerts, which offer streaming media. All of its sites can be accessed either independently or through the main CBC Radio Three portal. The French equivalent to CBC Radio Three is Bandeapart. New Music Canada is an online venue for new and emerging Canadian musicians, run by CBC Radio. ... Bandeapart is a website devoted to Canadian arts and music. ...


CBC Radio Three also rebroadcasts some of its content as a Saturday night program on CBC Radio Two. CBC Radio Three has recently been distributed through podcast format via iTunes. CBC Radio Two is an FM radio network in Canada, operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...


CBC Radio Three recently changed its format away from the popular magazine on 4 March 2005 [1]. The various sites will merge into a single one, and the Radio Three team will place more emphasis on the radio broadcasts.


Podcasting is a recent addition to Radio Three's programming. [2]. They now also publish their playlist online. [3] Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). ...


CBC Radio Three won the 2003 Webby Award and People's Voice Award for Best Broadband site. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the worlds best websites. The awards have been given out since 1996. ...


The CBC has also announced a partnership with Standard Broadcasting and Sirius Satellite Radio, with the intent of introducing satellite radio service to Canada. Its application and two others for satellite radio service were approved by the CRTC on June 16, 2005. CBC Radio Three and Bandeapart will become full-time stations on Sirius Canada. Standard Broadcasting Corporation is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. ... Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio (DARS) service in the United States that provides 65 streams (channels) of music and 55 streams of sports, news and entertainment. ... A satellite radio or subscription radio (SR) is a digital radio that receives signals broadcast by communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than normal radio signals. ... The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...


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Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker » CBC Radio and the Two Yoots (910 words)
“Radio Three is intended to speak to a, quote, younger audience,” he says, noting that in the five years he was at Radio Three, the CBC spent only $100,000 promoting it.
CBC Radio Three actually did some nice work, but woe be the person who tries to access it with a dial up connection!
A few years back when CBC had this dream of putting up brand new transmitters in every city for their youth network, it really pissed me off because they’d be going for the same audience as c/c radio already had.
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