Laura di battista biography
Laura Di Battista.
Laura Di Battista worked as a television journalist for twenty-five years at a local Toronto television station before trading the television camera for the radio microphone and becoming host of a daily current affairs program on Canadian public radio (CBC)..
Here and Now (Toronto)
CBC Radio One Program
Radio show
Here and Now is a daily Canadian radio show, which airs on CBLA-FM in Toronto, Ontario.
Under CBC Radio One's policy of extended local programming in metropolitan markets, the program airs from 3 to 6 p.m.
on CBLA's primary transmitter in Toronto, pre-empting the 3 to 4 p.m.
The Toronto-born journalist is most known for making waves as an on-air personality, asking the questions we all want the answers to.hour of network programming. However, CBLA's rebroadcast transmitters elsewhere in Southern Ontario do not air the first hour of Here and Now, remaining with the network programs and joining Here and Now in progress at 4 p.m.
History
The program debuted under its current title in 1997, concurrently with the network's rebranding from "CBC Radio" to "CBC Radio One".[1] Its first host was slated to be Maureen Taylor, but she left the network for TVOntario before the program's launch, and the program debuted with Joan Melanson as host.[1] Melanson took a maternity leave in 1998, and Erika Ritter took over the program as a