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Brent Bambury - From Brave New Waves to Day 6

8/31/2013

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Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Brent Bambury was still a teenager when he got his first job in broadcasting as a local sportscaster. And the work he’s pursued as a broadcaster with the CBC since then has truly ran the gamut.  

To give you a sense at just how wide-ranging his career has been, since starting at the CBC, Bambury spent a decade hosting the all night underground alternative music program Brave New Waves, co-hosted the CBC television magazine program Midday, spent three years at the helm of CBC Ottawa’s afternoon drive program All In A Day, co-hosted CBC TV's Test the Nation, and helped create and host several successful and groundbreaking radio shows - including the program he current hosts, Day 6.

Airing Saturday mornings at 10am on CBC Radio One, Day 6 – seems custom-made for someone with such a impressively varied career. It blends journalism, comedy, opinion, culture and current affairs together in one engaging and wide-ranging magazine program. Few hosts can interview everyone from politicians and filmmakers, to musicians and scientists and manage to be insightful and knowledgeable on such a range of topics, but that’s exactly the kind of eclectic and diverse mixture that Brent thrives in.

In his bio on CBC’s website, he writes,  “radio should be kinetic, full of life, fun, outrageous and thoughtful all at the same time" which to me sounds like a fairly good description for Brent himself! In this interview we discuss his early days as a young (and political) all night host of Brave New Waves, the eclectic nature of his career, and his love of the arts.


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Stella Cloutier
1/28/2014 07:18:16 pm

I love love day 6

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Jeremy Morrow
1/31/2014 06:31:42 am

Thank you, Brent. Brave New Waves was the soundtrack of my youth. I can't even count how many late nights I spent listening to it under the covers, sleepless at school the next day. It changed my life and changed the way I perceive music and the world around me. You're the John Peel of Canada, dude. The best. Much love. <3

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PolentaDragon
2/22/2015 12:25:09 am

Wow. Exactly what I wanted to say. Makes me wonder how many there were of us.

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Barbara J. Rennie
5/7/2016 07:28:02 am

I used to listen to Brave New Waves broadcast on WXPN in Philadelphia where I lived then, and in Montreal when I visited for JazzFest. There was nothing like it in the states then to my knowledge. I now enjoy listening to Day 6 via the Tune In radio app at my home west of Boston. Good luck in whatever you do, Brent!

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