{"id":203832,"date":"2025-10-10T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203832\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:27:07","slug":"95-7-newsradio-celebrates-20-years-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203832\/","title":{"rendered":"95.7 NewsRadio celebrates 20 years on air"},"content":{"rendered":"

From hurricanes<\/a>, to wildfires<\/a>, to elections<\/a>, 95.7 NewsRadio has been bringing stories to Haligonians for 20 years.<\/p>\n

The radio station affiliated with CityNews Halifax is celebrating two decades on the air.<\/p>\n

Dan Ahlstrand, interim host of The Todd Veinotte Show<\/a>, spoke with Amber LeBlanc Director of News and Talk Programming at Rogers Sports & Media about the early days of 95.7.<\/p>\n

LeBlanc was working with the renowned Rick Howe<\/a> in Halifax when 95.7 broke on to the airwaves. She recalls thinking of the station as the \u201cenemy\u201d but expressed just as much gratitude for the ability to watch the station evolve, with both her and Howe becoming a major part of its growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see it from its beginning to the way it\u2019s evolved and just thinking about 20 years of the critical information that has come from 95.7 that\u2019s helped people in HRM, it\u2019s emotional,\u201d LeBlanc said.<\/p>\n

Not only is there a critical mass of information that 95.7 has provided, but the way in which the news has been produced has changed significantly over 20 years.<\/p>\n

Katie Hartai worked as a producer for Howe in the early days of her career and recalls him telling endless stories about how things were in the \u201cgood ol\u2019 days\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you and I are talking about cutting tape, we\u2019re talking about pulling a clip from an interview that we recorded on a computer,\u201d Hartai said. \u201cBut for Rick, he would love to enlighten me that he actually physically had to cut tape and put it into the newscast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hartai continued to work with 95.7 NewsRadio throughout the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic which she said forced constant changes with work from home measures and advanced technologies.<\/p>\n

\"\"The team celebrated with a very fitting cake on Oct. 10, 2025. (Nicolle Bellefontaine\/Jack 92.9)<\/p>\n

But through two decades of technological advancement, 95.7 NewRadio staff\u2019s commitment to its community has never wavered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what people don\u2019t know or don\u2019t realize is that when there\u2019s a hurricane or there\u2019s wildfires, the people that work at 95.7 are also impacted by that, but they have to park their personal concerns work for you and work for the people,\u201d LeBlanc said, adding that there is a cot in the office where reporters will often stay during breaking news events to have staff around the clock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank the people at 95.7 for that sacrifice,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

95.7 NewsRadio continues to serve the local community amidst a constantly changing news ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal news is everything, it connects us, it\u2019s a pillar of democracy,\u201d LeBlanc said. <\/p>\n

While many platforms are moving to subscriptions, she wants to remind the community that 95.7 NewsRadio remains free to access. Those who support 95.7 are helping the station support the community. <\/p>\n

Rogers is the parent company of CityNews Halifax and 95.7 NewsRadio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From hurricanes, to wildfires, to elections, 95.7 NewsRadio has been bringing stories to Haligonians for 20 years. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-203832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}