About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Royal Canadian Air Farce, Air Farce Live, CBC Radio 3, The Vinyl Cafe, Roger Abbott, Great Canadian Song Quest, Double Exposure, Luba Goy, Nightlines, Jessica Holmes, After Hours, Mike, from Canmore, Fuse, Dave Broadfoot, John Morgan, Radio 2 Drive, Don Ferguson, Penelope Corrin, Alan Park, The Strombo Show, Vinyl Tap, Brave New Waves, Tonic, Realtime, Deep Roots, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, Martin Bronstein, The World at Six, RadioSonic, Sound Advice, Canada Live, Bunny Watson, DiscDrive, Global Village, Craig Lauzon, New Apathetic Party, Here's to You, The Signal, Tempo, Nightstream, Music and Company, Northern Lights, Inside the Music, Studio Sparks, Jazz Beat, Radio 2 Morning, In the Key of Charles, OnStage. Excerpt: Air Farce Live, also credited as Air Farce, previously Royal Canadian Air Farce, and Air Farce-Final Flight! for the final season, was a Canadian comedy series starring the comedy troupe The Royal Canadian Air Farce that previously starred in an eponymous radio show on CBC radio from 1973 to 1997. This top-rated television show was broadcast on CBC Television, beginning in 1993 and ending in December 2008. The Air Farce Live name was adopted in October 2007. For the show's final season which began October 3, 2008, the series was renamed Air Farce-Final Flight!. The show was a weekly topical sketch comedy series focusing on political and cultural satire and was one of the most popular Canadian television shows. It was initially aired as a radio series beginning in 1973, and on radio, Air Farce continued for 24 seasons through 1997. In terms of the troupe's TV career, the first Air Farce TV special aired in 1980. A short-lived Air Farce TV series was broadcast in 1981, and further TV specials aired in 1982, 1983, and 1984. After a long hiatus from TV, a 1992 New Year's Eve special for CBC-TV was ...