Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We have finally found our new Hockey Night in Canada Anthem, "Canadian Gold" by Colin Oberst! First off, congratulations to Colin. His anthem has been chosen by Canadians from every province and territory across the country...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
The countdown is on to revealing the Anthem Challenge finalists! The announcement will be made by George Stroumboulopoulos during the second intermission of Hockey Night in Canada's broadcast of the Toronto v Detroit game tonight. The announcement is expected to come at approximately 8:45pm ET...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
CBC News does a piece on the closing of entries for the Hockey Anthem Challenge
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
The vote is on! All three methods of voting, online, text message and 1-900, are up and running. To recap from the show: Vote from your phone* at 1-900-451-9999...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
.blog-img{margin-bottom:10px; padding: 0 15px;} We are getting the last details in place for the Anthem Challenge show tomorrow. I've included some photos of the set...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
Earlier today we sent out an email newsletter with information about an Anthem Challenge certificate recognizing the contribution of those who have entered the contest...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
Tune into The Hour each night next week to find out which hockey anthems made the cut to the top five! Starting Monday September 29th, George Stroumboulopoulos will be announcing one semi-finalist each evening for five nights. The Hour airs at 11 p.m. on CBC Television...
Maurice
Maurice
What about telling us the top 200 as well? That would have been so great for all of us that worked so hard on this. Also - the top 5 have already been notified - right? - I think I know this but cant tel you why..
M
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
With nearly 15,000 anthem entries, there's bound to be some good and some bad. And we're talking about song titles...
Jo-Anne
Jo-Anne
all of these new themes suck,why is there a need to change the original?
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We've received numerous e-mails asking us to improve the site's search engine, and we continue to make improvements. This week we have added the ability to successfully search by the entrant's name, which should certainly improve the speed and quality of searching for everyone...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
This is just a quick note to let everybody know that we have added a video page to the Anthem Challenge. We currently have two videos up, and there will be more to come. Take a look at: http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/video. Be sure to check back soon as there will be more updates coming.
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We have received a lot of email about ratings and view counts. People have asked us if the site was hacked or broken or worse. Fortunately none of those are the case. Ratings first...
Janine
Janine
I'm searching for a name & song that I know was on the site last week. But now when I enter the search name "John Stimpson" the site says he's not there! This was his link. http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/323258
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our submission count is in the neighbourhood of 14700 entries. That is amazing, especially given our original expectation of around 1000 entries...
Stephanie
Stephanie
You only expected 1000 entries? WOW - talk about exceeding expectations!!
Thanks for the updates. Very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Stephanie Dixon... Read More
mother of Declan
http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/325190
Audrey
Audrey

With all the great entries,
Canada should make a complete CD/DVD collection .
Then sell the work! Across Canada's stores & all earned going to CHILDREN CHARITY'S!!!
Just a my Opp!.. ... Read More
Any-takers?
Raymond
Raymond
Thanks for fixing this. And I thought I was the only one with the problem! For all those who were dying to hear my entry and had trouble finding it :)

http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/330757
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We have over 12054 anthems on the site so far and we're still processing entries received online and mailed in! This has been an incredible response, greater than anything we had hoped or expected so thank you very much...
Pascal
Pascal
For all of you who submitted entries online on August 31 refer to the HNIC Anthem Website : "A quick note for people who have recently uploaded their anthems. We will be processing several thousand entries in the coming days so if you haven't received confirmation of your anthem yet please bear with us, we're moving as fast as we can."

read it all here: http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/blog
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
As we close in on the end date for submissions we are continuing to receive record numbers of entries. A few tips for people submitting at the last minute. 1) If have submitted your anthem already and have not yet seen it on the site, don't panic...
Rick
Rick
Hi Tom

I uploaded mine Fri. around noon and I didn't receive confirmation until this morning. Mine is still not on the actual site though?

Rick
Sorin
Sorin
That's too bad about your crash... is it a Mac?
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
I am happy to announce our Hockey Anthem Challenge Facebook page has now topped 1000 members! The response on the page has been great for postings and comments on songs. We have also seen a number of individuals who have created their own pages to promoting their own anthems...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
Scott Moore, the Executive Director of CBC Sports will be on Radio One's Sounds Like Canada Friday morning at 10:00am local time. Scott will be talking about some of the interesting stories behind the anthems everyone has been submitting. We will post the interview here tomorrow after it airs.
Maurice
Maurice
Missed the interview out here in Calgary but look forward to it.

I like that they will orchestrate it...

http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/318756... Read More

Maurice
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We are counting down the hours to the end of the Anthem Challenge submission phase and the number of mailed in entries is incredible. We are processing the mail and emails as fast as we can so please bear with us...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We have some catching-up to do with these news posts. There are a number of people who've been featured recently so we're going to start including a couple entries in each of these posts. Jason Kohler was written up in the St...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We are receiving a lot of mailed-in entries and we're expecting this to only increase as we close in on August 31st, the final date for submissions...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
The Anthem Challenge Team has been sending out emails to anthem entrants looking for interesting stories. I thought it might be of interest to the people reading this blog as well. If you've already been contacted there is no need to resend you story...
Nancy
Nancy
Nancy Loeffler-Caro

Story sent on Aug.22
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
We have another Anthem entrant in the news. Tommy Joseph has been written up in the Scarborough Mirror (link) highlighting two of his entries, The Shinny and Trans Canada Hockey. Congratulations Tommy...
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
New Search! The most common request we have received for the Anthem site is to improve search functionality. It just wasn't working as well as it should have for the number of anthems have on the site...
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Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge added 1 new song to their profile.
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge
In the last month we have received a huge number of comments on the anthems, some helpful, some supportive, some not! These are a few of the funnier and stranger comments we've come across. chrisrichardson Jazz and hockey???Like icecream and bacon...
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Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge added 1 new song to their profile.