Program Information: Afternoon Edition
Host: Rob Snow
CFRA's Afternoon Edition covers breaking news and updates you on what's developed in the stories you heard on the way to work this morning!
From fascinating short features like Historica's Canadian "History by the Minute" to breaking business news updates, traveller's weather, interviews with newsmakers, and open phone segments to let you hear what your neighbours are saying about the biggest stories of the day.
Afternoon Edition includes "CFRA Traffic & Weather together on the 5s" (updates at :05, :15, :25, :35, :45, and :55 minutes past the hour).
One thing that hasn't changed is the city's most complete coverage of breaking local, world and international news at the top and bottom of each hour, plus the expanded World News Headlines at :20 and Canadian news update at :50.
We're also keeping the most popular elements of CFRA's afternoon lineup, with our political panel Mondays 3-4pm, Dr. Barry Dworkin Wednesdays 3-4pm, the City Hall roundup Thursdays 3-4pm and the lighter side to close out the week every Friday afternoon 3-4pm.
Rob Snow
Since taking over the drive home slot on 580 CFRA in 2004, Rob Snow has built his "Afternoon Edition" into one of the region's most popular and influential radio shows. Snow describes himself as just an old-fashioned radio reporter at heart. Combining that reporter's natural curiosity with a no-nonsense, let's-just-get-to-the-point approach drives his intelligent, probing interviews with everyone from cabinet ministers to CEOs to city councilors, and often results in some of the most compelling, revealing and informative radio Ottawa has to offer.
A native of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Snow studied at both Carleton University and Algonquin College before launching his broadcast career on CFMO-FM in Smiths Falls. Next stop was CHEZ-FM here in the city where he honed his craft covering some of the biggest local stories in recent memory, including the Great Ice Storm of 1998 and the mass shooting at the OC Transpo garage on St. Laurent Boulevard.
Lured away to CHUM radio during the peak of the technology boom in Silicon Valley North, Snow would go on to become one of the city's top financial and technology reporters, as the creator and original host of CFRA's popular "Business@Night", still Ottawa's only business and financial news radio program.
Almost ten years and 10,000 interviews later, Snow continues to give his listeners a daily dose of debate and opinion that has turned into can't-miss radio for Ottawa's political junkies. His federal political panels keep Blackberries buzzing and his municipal debates never fail to set off the phones at City Hall. His "Friday Focus on Agriculture" is more than a fixture for people in Ottawa's vast rural areas as Snow points out, "I think it's good for city folk to understand that the food we eat wasn't just made up in the back of the local superstore."
Along with "trying to figure out what's wrong with the Senators" Snow spends the warmer months, trying to find his golf ball.
Catch him every afternoon 3 to 7 on 580 CFRA.
