Radio 3 Timeline

"From 1998 to present day, and beyond. This is the definitive Radio 3 timeline."

1998/1999

The idea for Radio 3 is hatched by CBC executives Robert Ouimet, Loc Dao (who created Realtime on Radio 2), Anton Leo, Susan Englebert, and Bill Smith (who created DNTO on Radio 1). Radio 3 was to be a youth-oriented national terrestrial radio network based on BBC Radio 1 in the UK and Triple J in Australia.

After many months of preparation, in which the code name "clubhouse" is implemented due to the amount of secrecy surrounding the project - and the amount of clubhouse sandwiches consumed during the planning - the proposal was ready to submit to the CRTC.

However, the top brass of the CBC pulled the application, because it didn't seem prudent to be applying to launch a new network when Radio 2 was going through a deep round of budget cuts in the late 1990s. The team is asked to somehow re-imagine the idea of CBC Radio 3.

2016

Friday, June 24:

• Last day for Mega-blogging
• Last day for listening to R3 from a mobile device outside Canada