Award-winning broadcaster Anna Maria Tremonti is leaving The Current after 16 seasons of hosting the weekday morning current affairs radio show in order to produce and host new, original podcasts for CBC. CBC Radio will conduct a search for a new host of The Current, which will continue in its 8:30 a.m. timeslot. Tremonti, 61, has been at the helm of the acclaimed show since it hit the CBC Radio airwaves in November 2002. She is also working on another CBC podcast that will be announced later this year. Prior to The Current, Tremonti spent 19 years working with CBC TV — co-hosting its flagship investigative program, The Fifth Estate, and covering international stories as a foreign correspondent for The National.

Source: CBC News May 27, 2019 15:28 UTC