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...

CBC News does a piece on the closing of entries for the 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...

.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...

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...

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...

With nearly 15,000 anthem entries, there's bound to be some good and some bad. And we're talking about song titles...

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...

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.

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...

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...