Genre music Language(s) English | Country Canada Home station CBC Radio Two | |
Starring Raina Douris (weekday)
Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe (weekend) Air dates since September 2, 2008 | ||
Radio 2 Morning, titled Radio 2 Weekend Morning on weekends, is the morning program on CBC Radio 2 in Canada, launched September 2, 2008. The program features a cross-genre selection of selected new and old Canadian and international singer/songwriter, rock and pop tracks. It also presents anecdotes, overnight news stories, and background information on the music.
The program airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. seven days a week, and premiered in 2008 as part of the network's revamp. It was originally hosted by Tom Allen weekdays and Molly Johnson weekends. Allen left the program in 2009 to become host of Shift, and was succeeded by Bob Mackowycz as weekday host; in 2011, Mackowycz left the program and was succeeded by Tom Power. Johnson left as weekend host in December 2013, and was succeeded Talia Schlanger in January. In August 2016, the CBC announced that Power would be leaving the program to become host of the network's entertainment magazine show Q; around the same time, Schlanger left the program to take a job as contributing producer for the NPR music series World Cafe in the United States. In September, the network announced Raina Douris as the new weekday host, and Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe as the new weekend host.
The program's production staff is based at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, although Power, who is originally from St. John's, occasionally hosted from the CBC's facilities in that city.