The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has been airing Coronation Street for the past several decades. In mid-January 2007, an e-mail was circulated around the internet, purporting to be from Communications Officer Brenda Holland at the CBC's Audience Relations Department, which claimed that Canada's public broadcaster was cancelling Coronation Street as of June 1, 2007. According to the letter, the British show would be gradually phased out as of April 1, 2007 in order to make way for more Canadian content.
Many Canadian fans of the program were up in arms upon hearing the news and ended up contacting the CBC in large numbers. It turns out, however, that the letter was a hoax and the CBC has no plans to cancel Coronation Street, noting that the letter being circulated on blogs and forums was based on "malicious rumours." The Canadian broadcaster has a contract to keep airing the show into 2008.
Coronation Street episodes are currently aired on the CBC from Monday to Friday, at 7pm, and all weekly episodes are repeated on Sunday mornings, from 7.30am. The episodes aired in Canada, however, are about 8 to 9 months behind those being shown in the UK.
Many Canadian fans of the program were up in arms upon hearing the news and ended up contacting the CBC in large numbers. It turns out, however, that the letter was a hoax and the CBC has no plans to cancel Coronation Street, noting that the letter being circulated on blogs and forums was based on "malicious rumours." The Canadian broadcaster has a contract to keep airing the show into 2008.
Coronation Street episodes are currently aired on the CBC from Monday to Friday, at 7pm, and all weekly episodes are repeated on Sunday mornings, from 7.30am. The episodes aired in Canada, however, are about 8 to 9 months behind those being shown in the UK.
