Canadian TV series or program
The Exchange
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Also known as
| The Lang and O'Leary Exchange
(2009-14)
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Presented by
| Amanda Lang
(2009?15)
Kevin O'Leary
(2009?14)
Peter Armstrong
(2015?16)
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Country of origin
| Canada
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Original language
| English
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Running time
| 60 minutes
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Network
| CBC News Network
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Release
| October 26, 2009
(
2009-10-26
)
?
September 9, 2016
(
2016-09-09
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The Exchange
was a Canadian business news television series which aired weekdays on
CBC News Network
, with an overnight rebroadcast on
CBC Television
, from October 26, 2009 to September 9, 2016.
The show originally launched as
The Lang and O'Leary Exchange
, a half-hour daily series co-hosted by CBC's senior business correspondent
Amanda Lang
and businessman
Kevin O'Leary
, starting at 4:30 p.m.
Eastern
. Lang and O'Leary had previously co-hosted the
Business News Network
series
SqueezePlay
.
[1]
On March 1, 2010
The Lang and O'Leary Exchange
became an hour-long show starting at 7 p.m., pre-taped earlier in the evening, and aired on the CBC News Network. In September 2012, the show was revised into two half-hour formats, and gained an airing at 6:30 p.m. local time for the first half hour on
CBC Television
following local newscasts.
Guest hosts, when Lang or O'Leary have been absent, have included
Rudyard Griffiths
,
Bruce Sellery
, Preet Banerjee, Som Seif, Mike Abramsky,
Dianne Buckner
, Danielle Bochove, Michael Hyatt,
David Chilton
and David Kaufman.
On August 11, 2014, it was announced that Kevin O'Leary would leave the CBC, and join
Bell Media
to return to his previous home of BNN. As a result of the change, Amanda Lang became the sole host of the program, which was renamed
The Exchange with Amanda Lang
the following Monday.
[2]
A few months later the program was relaunched, doing away with most of the
Lang & O'Leary
-era segments.
On October 13, 2015, the CBC announced that Lang would leave CBC News to move to
Bloomberg TV Canada
.
[3]
[4]
The Exchange
continued with a number of rotating hosts, until
Peter Armstrong
was named the program's new permanent host in 2016. The program ended on September 9, 2016; its successor,
On the Money
(hosted by Armstrong), launched in the same 7 - 8 PM (Eastern) time slot on September 12, 2016.
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