on the show. In addition, the show also increased the profile of underground and experimental writers and artists and filmmakers, including Laurie Anderson, Kathy Acker, bill bissett and Todd Solondz. In 1990, the program was scheduled to receive a short-term trial run on WXPN in Philadelphia, with an eye toward being picked up for U.S. syndication by National Public Radio; however, due to the obscenity controversies that were prominent in American music at the time, NPR opted to cancel the contract because Brave New Waves did not censor songs with potentially objectionable lyrics. In the 1990s, when alternative rock became the decade's dominant commercial genre, the show kept its focus on the underground. In 1995, Bambury left the program to become cohost of CBC Television's Midday, and was replaced by Patti Schmidt, who also became the executive producer of the program. Since 1991, she had been writing and programming music for the show. Schmidt remained the program's main host for the remainder of its run; however, due to budgetary pressures at the CBC, Schmidt was forced to work with a smaller staff and budget than Bambury had enjoyed, with the result that the program became more squarely focused on playing music, with interviews reduced to one per week. The program became a reference and filter for all manner of new and contemporary music from indie rock, pop, metal and weird folk, to IDM, electronic dance music, edgy hip hop, avant garde jazz, noise, sound art, modern classical and all things uncategorizable. On May 27, 2006, the program aired an episode which was structured as a finale, with Schmidt conducting the show as a wrap party and then ending it by naming and thanking everybody who had ever worked on the show from its premiere in 1984. The final piece of music played was William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops". Although the show continued to air after that date, for the remainder of its run it was reduced to just one hour per night of new programming hosted by a rotating stable of guest hosts, with the remaining three hours filled by repeats of past BNW programs. On January 17, 2007, it was announced that Brave New Waves would be removed from the CBC Radio 2 line-up as part of a rebranding of the network. The program aired for the last time on March 16, 2007. The show was inducted into Hour magazine's