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Breaking news at calgaryherald.com ENTERTAINMENT Saturday, August 27, 2011 C3 l.i mMm 1 1 mi 11 mij mim Changes on tap for local morning television ft Mm mm I at1 ERIC VOLMERS Calgary herald Calgary viewers can expect a shifting landscape in early-morning television this fall, with Global TV, CTV and Citytv all planning changes. That includes Citytv retooling Breakfast Television. On Sept. 6, the show will change from a 6 am. to 5:30 a.m.

start and add former News 660s Ted Henley as co-host Global TV, meanwhile, will be expanding its and that's the best thing about this band. It's like eternal youth." Those days of youth were good to blink-182. Formed in 1994 in San Diego, the group was on its third CD, 1999's Enema of the State, when it became a household name. Spearheaded by its smash single What's My Age the album became a multimillion-sell-ing hit and established blink-182 as an arena-headlining act The CD also earned blink-182 plenty of comparisons to Green Day for their hyper-catchy punk-pop songs and their youthful vigour. The next CD, 2001's Take Ofif Your Pants and Jacket stayed very much in that stylistic vein, and the CD also enjoyed multi-platinum success.

But then came a 2003 self-titled CD that took longer to make than the previous blink-182 CDs, and this turned out to be a sign of things to come. During touring behind that album, tensions mounted. Guitaristsinger DeLonge wanted to start spending more time at home with his wife and baby daughter, and that meant turning down a proposed 2005 U.S. tour and being less willing to leave home to write and rehearse for future albums. Bassistsinger Hoppus and Barker viewed this as an attempt to control the group's touring and recording schedules, and as disagreements escalated, the group decided to go on "indefinite hiatus." Hoppus and Barker went on to form a new band, 44, DeLonge, meanwhile, formed Angels Airwaves, releasing three CDs.

Things were rolling along with the respective careers until Sept 20, 2008, when a plane carrying Barker crashed on takeoff in Columbia, S.C. The drummer and his friend and musical cohort DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), survived, but suffered significant injuries, with Barker sustaining burns from the waist down. The four other people on the plane died. Upon hearing the news about the crash, DeLonge reached out to Barker, and this opened the lines of communication between the three band members. Eventually DeLonge was able to convince Hoppus and Barker that he hadn't been trying to control the group.

Then talk turned to returning to blink-182. The 2009 reunion tour then paved the way to plans to record the Neighbourhoods CD. morning news to seven days a week. It will 1 1 Kevin Winter, Getty Images Tom DeLonge, left, Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus of blink-182 have a new album, Neighbourhoods, due for release on Sept. 27.

Hoppus says the band's current tour is a mix of old favourites and new material. blink-182 reunion tour leads to new album .7 9 De aaaing new anchors for the xf weekend show, JLJ. I which will of Todd Gallant ficially launch Sept 17 and 18. SPOTLIGHT Blink 182 plays the Saddledome Sunday night with opening acts Without Me! and Rancid. antics, which included plenty of blue language, occasional nudity and other various stunts.

Now in his 30s, DeLonge said he wondered if the early hits would feel awkward to play when the group returned to the concert stage in 2009 for its first shows since the group had split up in 2005. But it turned out he and his bandmates had no problems connecting with their inner youth. "That's the most exciting thing about it," DeLonge said. "It transports you back to a time when you just had so much angst and you need to change things up in your young adult life or teenage life. Now blink-182 is ready to showcase its new songs on the aforementioned tour.

"I think it will be a good mix of the new stuff and the music that we've been playing for the past couple of decades," bassistsinger Mark Hoppus said. "I think that all of us know that when people come to a blink show, they're going to want to hear All The Small Things and Rock Show and Stay Together for the Kids and the singles that we've had over the years, and we will put some of the new songs into the set list as welL" Some of those singles were written a dozen years ago, when DeLonge, Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker were still in their early 20s and showing plenty of youthful mischief, both in their humorous lyrics and onstage And for the first time, these shows will be competing with a local morning show on CTV. CTV Morning Live will launch in October. The station has not released many details, but Kelly Johnston, director of news and public affairs for CTV Television Calgary, confirmed that former Global TV weatherman Todd Gallant will be on board for CTV Morning Live. CTV is also launching local morning shows in Vancouver, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg.

Canada A.M, the CTVs national morning program that currently airs in Calgary, will be seen on CTV News ChanneL "It will be the first time that CTV can compete on a local basis with the other stations who have had morning shows in this market for a long time," says Johnston. Global TV, meanwhile, will be adding former CTV Winnipeg weatherman Jordan Witzel to the ranks on Monday. They have not announced who the new anchors will be for the Saturday and Sunday morning programs. Bruce McAllister, Leslie Horton and Cara Fullerton will remain during weekdays. Amber Schin-kel is currently filling in for co-anchor Susanne Fox, who is on maternity leave.

ALAN SCULLEY For postmedia news As blink-182 was getting ready for a tour that would take the band across the United States and Canada, the band was scrambling to meet a July 31 deadline to finish its new CD Neighborhoods. The fact that the group got into a time crunch on Neighbourhoods wasn't a sign of a tight recording schedule or a creative block in trying to come up with enough songs. "You know, people are always like, why do they have to give you deadlines or this was supposed to be done a while ago, guitaristsinger Tom DeLonge said in a teleconference interview as the deadline was looming. "Well, (it's) because we were having a lot of fun and doing really good things and that's the answer." It won't be long now before fans can decide if they agree that blink-182 had good song ideas for the new CD. The band made the July 31 deadline and Neighbourhoods is ready for release on Sept 27.

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