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Alberta /ælˈbɜrtə/ is a province of Canada. It had a population of 3,645,257 in 2011, making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Alberta and its neighbour, Saskatchewan, were established as provinces on September 1, 1905.
Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the US state of Montana to the south. Alberta is one of three Canadian provinces and territories to border only a single U.S. state and is also one of only two provinces that are landlocked.
Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta, is located near the geographic centre of the province and is the primary supply and service hub for Canada's oil sands and other northern resource industries. Approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the capital is Calgary, Alberta's largest city and a major distribution and transportation hub. Calgary and Edmonton centre Alberta's two census metropolitan areas, both of which have populations exceeding 1 million.Census agglomerations in the province include Lethbridge, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Wood Buffalo (includes Fort McMurray), Grande Prairie, Lloydminster, Okotoks, Brooks, Camrose, Cold Lake, High River, Sylvan Lake, Wetaskiwin, Strathmore, Canmore, and Lacombe. Notable tourist destinations in the province include Canmore, Sylvan Lake, Drumheller, Banff, and Jasper.
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Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the four Atlantic provinces in 2011, was 2,327,638.
The first premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, coined the term Atlantic Canada when Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949. He believed it would be presumptuous for Newfoundland and Labrador to assume that it could include itself within the existing term "Maritime Provinces", used to describe the cultural similarities shared by New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. The three Maritime provinces joined Confederation in the nineteenth century: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867 and Prince Edward Island in 1873.
2011 census figures for metropolitan areas in Atlantic Canada. The list includes communities above 15,000, by population/metro area:
Coordinates: 47°N 62°W / 47°N 62°W / 47; -62
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Barbados
Coordinates: 13°10′N 59°33′W / 13.167°N 59.55°W / 13.167; -59.55
Barbados (
i/bɑrˈbeɪdɒs/ or /bɑrˈbeɪdoʊs/) is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 mi) in length and up to 23 kilometres (14 mi) in width, covering an area of 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi). It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 kilometres (104 mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.
Barbados was initially visited by the Spanish around the late 1400s to early 1500s and first appears on a Spanish map from 1511. The Spanish explorers may have plundered the island of whatever native peoples resided therein to become slaves. The Portuguese visited in 1536, but they too left it unclaimed, with their only remnants being an introduction of wild hogs for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited. The first English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados in 1624. They took possession of it in the name of the British king James I. Two years later in 1627 the first permanent settlers arrived from England and it became an English and later British colony.
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Barcelona
Barcelona (English /bɑrsɨˈloʊnə/, Catalan: [bərsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of 101.4 km2 (39 sq mi). The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4,200,000 and 4,500,000 within an area of 803 km2 (310 sq mi), being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan. About five million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the main component of an administrative area of Greater Barcelona, with a population of 3,218,071 in an area of 636 km² (density 5,060 hab/km²). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 m/1,680 ft).
Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona became one of the most important cities of the Crown of Aragon. Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination. Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean is located in Barcelona. The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions, including the 1888 Exposición Universal de Barcelona, the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition (Expo 1929), the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, and the 2004 World Urban Forum.
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Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital (Spanish pronunciation: [boɣoˈta] (
listen)), from 1991 to 2000 called Santafé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district and no longer belongs administratively to that department. Bogotá is the most populous city in the country, with 7.363.782 inhabitants as of 2010. Bogotá and its metropolitan area, which includes municipalities such as Chía, Cota, Soacha, Cajicá and La Calera, had a population of 7,881,156 in 2005.
In terms of land area, Bogotá is the largest city in Colombia, and one of the biggest of Latin America. It figures amongst the thirty largest cities of the world and it is the third-highest capital city in South America (after La Paz and Quito) at 2,625 metres (8,612 ft) above sea level. With its many universities and libraries, Bogotá has become known as "The Athens of South America". Bogotá owns the largest moorland of the world, which is located in the Sumapaz Locality. The city ranked 54th in the 2010 Global Cities Index and is listed as global city of the Beta+ kind by the GaWC.
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British Columbia
British Columbiai/ˌbrɪtɪʃ kəˈlʌmbiə/ (B.C. or BC) (French: la Colombie-Britannique, C.-B.) is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ("Splendour without Diminishment"). Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858. In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.
As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington. The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Prairie Provinces and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.
The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,419,974 (about two and a half million of whom were in Greater Vancouver). The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.
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Calgary
Calgary
/ˈkælɡᵊri/ is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The city is located in the grassland and parkland natural regions of Alberta.
As of 2011, the City of Calgary had a population of 1,096,833 and a metropolitan population of 1,214,839, making it the largest city in Alberta, and the third-largest municipality and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Located 294 km (183 mi) south of Edmonton, Statistics Canada defines the narrowly populated area between these cities as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor."
Economic activity in Calgary is mostly centred on the petroleum industry and agriculture. In 1988, Calgary became the first Canadian city to host the Olympic Winter Games.
Before the Calgary area was settled by Europeans, it was inhabited by pre-Clovis people whose presence has been traced back at least 11,000 years. In 1787, cartographer David Thompson spent the winter with a band of Peigan encamped along the Bow River. He was the first recorded European to visit the area, and John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area, in 1873.
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Canada
Canada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km2 (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.
The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.
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CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel (formerly NewNet, now CTV Two) — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) affiliate, one provincial educational channel, and 20 branded specialty television channels, most notably MuchMusic and its various spinoffs. In addition, CHUM controlled 33 radio stations across Canada. At various points in its history, CHUM owned other radio stations and ATV/Atlantic Satellite Network in Atlantic Canada.
CHUM was taken over by Bell Globemedia (now Bell Media), owner of the CTV Television Network in July 2006. Regulatory approval was made conditional on the sale of CHUM's five Citytv stations to Rogers Communications. CTVglobemedia took control of CHUM's other assets effective June 22, 2007. The company itself has since been renamed CTV Limited (now CTV Inc.) and continues operation as a subsidiary of Bell Media. Its radio broadcasting division, CHUM Radio has since became Bell Media Radio after Bell Canada took control of CTV's assets, thus becoming Bell Media. Its Toronto radio stations TSN RADIO 1050 and 104.5 CHUM-FM continues use "CHUM" as their station's call sign. However, CHUM no longer operates as a broadcasting company separate from its new parent.
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CIWW
Coordinates: 45°22′42.3″N 75°37′32.8″W / 45.378417°N 75.625778°W / 45.378417; -75.625778 (CIWW's broadcast location)
CIWW is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1310 kHz on the AM dial in Ottawa, Ontario. Owned by Rogers Communications, CIWW is one of several Rogers-owned stations with an all-news format, in this case branded as 1310News. The station broadcasts at 50,000 watts from a transmitter site located at McKenna Casey Drive and Highway 416.
The station was launched in 1922 by Dr. George Geldert, with the call sign CKCO. After changing frequencies a number of times (as most early AM radio stations in North America did), the station permanently adopted its current 1310 frequency in 1941. In 1945, CKCO became Ottawa's affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network.
In 1949, the station was purchased by Southam, and changed its callsign to CKOY. The use of the CKCO call sign was in no way related to CKCO-TV in Kitchener, which signed on five years later.
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Colombia
Colombia (
/kəˈlʌmbiə/ kə-LUM-biə, or /kəˈlɒmbiə/ kə-LOM-biə), officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia [reˈpuβlika ðe koˈlombja]), is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia has maritime borders with Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Colombia is the 26th largest country by area and the fourth largest in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru. With over 46 million people, Colombia is the 27th largest country in the world by population and has the second largest population of any Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico. Colombia is a middle power, with the fourth largest economy in Latin America, and the third largest in South America. Colombia is famous for the production of coffee, flowers, emeralds, coal, and oil. All of these products make up the primary sector of economy.
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CP24
CablePulse24 (CP24) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty news channel owned and operated by Bell Media. Based in Toronto, it focuses on local news from the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario, although it also covers national and international news. It is distributed through cable in Southern Ontario and direct broadcast satellite nationally.
The channel was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 as Pulse 24, and launched on March 30, 1998 as CablePulse 24 (CP24) on March 30, 1998, under the ownership of CHUM Limited and minority partner Sun Media, owner of the Toronto Sun daily newspaper. The network was named as an extension of CITY-TV's newscasts, which were then known as CityPulse.
On December 1, 2004 CHUM Limited acquired the remaining interest in CP24 (giving it 100% of its shares), when the Sun's owners sold their 29.9% share in CP24 after acquiring its independent broadcast station Toronto 1 (now Sun News Network), the same day when CHUM Limited took control of Craig Media and its assets.
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CP24 Breakfast
CP24 Breakfast is a Canadian morning television news show that airs on CP24, the show airs weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 7:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. on Saturdays and 7:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. on Sundays.
There is also an early weekday edition of CP24 Breakfast titled Before Breakfast that airs from 5:00 - 5:30 a.m.
CP24 Breakfast first aired on March 26, 2009, displacing the simulcast of Citytv Toronto's Breakfast Television, which is now owned by Rogers Media. On the same day, CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) relaunched its Toronto-based oldies music radio station, 1050 CHUM, as an all-news radio station CP24 Radio 1050. The station operated primarily as a simulcast of CP24's television counterpart, which was later reverted to an all-sports radio format as TSN Radio 1050 as of April 2011. Prior to the launch of CP24 Breakfast, from February 2009, until March 25, 2009, CP24 had its own news inserts during commercial breaks on BT known as More On CP24 in which CP24 anchors would do extended morning news updates. Unofficially Citytv hosts had constantly referred to Breakfast Television being "only on Citytv, Cable 7" several months before CP24 launched its own new morning show.
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Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the primary central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the former municipality of Old Toronto, it is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west. The area is made up of the city's largest concentration of skyscrapers and businesses. It also contains buildings of the municipal government of Toronto and provincial government of Ontario.
The Financial District, centered on the intersection of Bay Street and King Street is the centerpiece of the Canada's financial industry. It contains the Toronto Stock Exchange, which is the largest in Canada and seventh in the world by market capitalization. The construction of skyscrapers in Downtown Toronto had started to rapidly increase during the 1960s.
The retail core of the downtown is the Downtown Yonge area located along Yonge Street from College Street to Queen Street. There is a large concentration of retail here, including the Toronto Eaton Centre indoor mall. There are an estimated 600 retail stores, 150 bars and restaurants, and 7 hotels. In recent years the area has been experiencing a renaissance as the Business Improvement Area (BIA) has brought in new retail and improved the cleanliness. The area has also seen the opening of the Dundas Square public square, a 'Times Square' of Toronto and surrounding development. The area includes several live theatres, a movie complex at Dundas Square and the historic Massey Hall. Historical sites and landmarks include the Arts & Letter Club, the Church of the Holy Trinity, Mackenzie House, Maple Leaf Gardens, Old City Hall, and the Toronto Police Museum and Discovery Centre.
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Edmonton
Edmonton /ˈɛdməntən/ is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, Canada. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.
The city and its census metropolitan area had populations of 812,201 and 1,159,869 as of the 2011 Census respectively, making it Alberta's second-largest city, Canada's fifth-largest municipality and Canada's sixth-largest metropolitan area by population. Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian.
The majority of Edmonton's metropolitan population lives within the City of Edmonton rather than in the surrounding suburban municipalities. Historically, Edmonton was surrounded by few other urban municipalities (Strathcona, Beverly and Jasper Place being the largest) but these were absorbed through amalgamation or annexation. Edmonton annexed a significant amount of land up until the early 1980s, and as a result it has sustained much of the region's suburban growth within its own boundaries.
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Greater Toronto Area
The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2011 census population of over 6 million. The Greater Toronto Area is defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York.
The Greater Toronto Area is different from the Census Metropolitan Area of Toronto, which covers a smaller region. As of early 21st century, the regional span of the Greater Toronto Area is sometimes extended to include the city of Hamilton, Ontario and its surrounding region, to form the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, an urban area which has a total population ranked among the top 50 in the world.
The term Greater Toronto has been used in writing as early as the 1900s, although at the time, the term only referred to the former City of Toronto and its immediate townships and villages, which became Metropolitan Toronto in 1954 and became the current city of Toronto in 1998. The usage of the term involving the four regional municipalities came into formal use in the mid-1980s, after it was used in a widely discussed report on municipal governance restructuring in the region and was later made official as a provincial planning area. However it did not come into everyday usage until the mid- to late 1990s. In 2006, the term began to be supplanted in the field of spatial planning as provincial policy increasingly began to refer to either the "Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area" (GTHA) or the still-broader "Greater Golden Horseshoe". The latter includes communities like Barrie, Guelph and the Niagara Region. The GTA continues, however, to be in official use elsewhere in the Government of Ontario, such as the Ministry of Finance.
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Kamloops
Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia, at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River and near Kamloops Lake. It is the largest community in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the location of the regional district's offices. The surrounding region is more commonly referred to as the Thompson Country. It is ranked 37th on the list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada and represents the 44th largest census agglomeration nationwide, with 85,678 residents in 2011.
The Kamloops area was not exclusively inhabited by the Secwepemc (Shuswap) nation (part of the Interior Salish language group) prior to the arrival of European settlers. The Cree-Saulteaux band led by Chief Yawassannay had migrated to this region in the early 15th century. The Yawassanay band's Kamloops settlement was the largest of their three tribal areas. The first European explorers arrived in 1811, in the person of David Stuart, sent out from Fort Astoria, then still a Pacific Fur Company post, and who spent a winter there with the Secwepemc people, with Alexander Ross establishing a post there in May 1812 - "Fort Cumcloups".
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Manitoba
Manitobai/ˌmænəˈtoʊbə/ is a Canadian prairie province. The province, with an area of 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi), has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.
Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is Canada's eighth-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and home to 60 percent of the population of the province. Winnipeg is the seat of government, home to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the highest court in the jurisdiction, the Manitoba Court of Appeal. Four of the province's five universities, all four of its professional sports teams, and most of its cultural activities are located in Winnipeg.
Fur traders first arrived during the late 17th century. Manitoba became a province of Canada in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion. A general strike took place in Winnipeg in 1919, and the province was hit hard by the Great Depression. This led to the creation of what would become the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, one of the province's major political parties and currently in power, led by premier Greg Selinger.
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Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is a city of 61,097 people located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is enclaved within Cypress County along with the nearby Town of Redcliff, although neither is part of the county.
It is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, the eastern terminus of the Crowsnest Highway, and the South Saskatchewan River. Nearby communities considered part of the Medicine Hat area include the Town of Redcliff (located immediately adjacent to the city's northwest boundary) and the hamlets of Desert Blume, Dunmore, Irvine, Seven Persons, and Veinerville. The Cypress Hills (including Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park) is a relatively short distance (by car) to the southeast of the city.
Historically, Medicine Hat has been known for its large natural gas fields, being immortalised by Rudyard Kipling as having "all hell for a basement". Because of these reserves, the city is known as The Gas City. It is Alberta's sixth largest city. In October 2008, Medicine Hat was named one of Alberta's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal.
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Montreal
Montreal (
i/ˌmʌntriːˈɒl/;French: Montréal; pronounced [mɔ̃ʁeal] (
listen)) is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the fifteenth largest in North America. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", the city takes its present name from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, or Mont Réal as it was spelled in Middle French (Mont Royal in present French). The city is located on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.
As of May 10, 2011, Statistics Canada identifies Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (land area 4,259 square kilometres (1,644 sq mi)) as Canada's second most populous with an estimated metropolitan area population of 3,824,221 and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration of Montreal, which includes all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal. The city of Montreal proper had a population of 1,649,519.
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Northern Canada
Northern Canada, colloquially the North, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Similarly, the Far North (when contrasted to the North) may refer to the Canadian Arctic: the portion of Canada north of the Arctic Circle.
These reckonings somewhat depend on the concept of nordicity, a measure of northernness that other Arctic territories share. Canada, a country in northern North America whose population is concentrated along its southern frontier with the United States, is frequently reckoned to not have a 'south.' As such, the 'South' is only perceived as a region when it is contrasted to or viewed from those in the North.
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Ontario
Ontario /ɒnˈtɛərioʊ/ is one of the provinces of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province or territory and fourth largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa.
Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay to the north, Quebec to the east, and to the south by the U.S. states of Minnesota, Michigan (portions to the west), New York (portions to the east), Ohio and Pennsylvania. All but a small part of Ontario's 2,700 km (1,677 mi) border with the United States follow inland waterways: from the west at Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River drainage system. These are the Rainy River, the Pigeon River, Lake Superior, the St. Mary's River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and along the St. Lawrence River from Kingston, Ontario to the Quebec boundary just east of Cornwall, Ontario.
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Ottawa
Ottawa (i/ˈɒtəwɑː/ or /ˈɒtəwə/) is the capital of Canada. It is the second largest city in Ontario and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, located on the north bank of the Ottawa River; together they form the National Capital Region (NCR).
Founded in 1826 as Bytown and incorporated as "Ottawa" in 1855, the city has evolved into a political and technological centre of Canada. Its original boundaries were expanded through numerous minor annexations and ultimately replaced by a new city incorporation and major amalgamation in 2001 which significantly increased its land area. The name "Ottawa" is derived from the Algonquin word adawe, meaning "to trade". Initially an Irish and French Christian settlement, Ottawa has become a multicultural city with a diverse population.
The 2011 census had the city's population as 883,391, and the metropolitan population as 1,236,324.Mercer ranks Ottawa with the second highest quality of living of any large city in the Americas, and 14th highest in the world. It is also rated the second cleanest city in Canada, and third cleanest city in the world. In 2012, the city was ranked for the third consecutive year as the best community in Canada to live in by MoneySense.
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Portage la Prairie
Portage la Prairie ( /ˈpɔrtɨdʒ lə ˈprɛərɪ/) is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2011, the population was 12,996. The area of the city was 24.67 square kilometres (9.53 sq mi). Portage la Prairie is located approximately 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Winnipeg, along the Trans Canada Highway (located exactly between the provincial borders of Saskatchewan and Ontario), and sits on the Assiniboine River, which flooded the town persistently until a diversion channel north to Lake Manitoba (the Assiniboine River Floodway) was built to divert the flood waters. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie.
According to Environment Canada, Portage la Prairie has the most sunny days during the warm months in Canada.
The area was most likely inhabited by Aboriginals, or First Peoples, before European settlers began to arrive prior to 1850. In September of 1738, after the Fur Trade had extended into the West, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Verendrye (a French Canadian explorer and fur trader) built Fort La Reine north of the Assiniboine River to serve as a fur trading post, and provide the explorers with a "home" operating base, from which they would explore other parts of Central Manitoba and Western North America.
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Quebec
Coordinates: 53°45′N 071°59′W / 53.75°N 71.983°W / 53.75; -71.983 (Quebec)
Quebec /kwəˈbɛk/ or /kəˈbɛk/ (French: Québec [kebɛk] ( listen)) is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay, to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick. It is bordered on the south by the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia.
Quebec is Canada's second most populous province, after Ontario. Most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. English-speaking communities and English-language institutions are concentrated in the west of the island of Montreal but are also significantly present in the Outaouais, Eastern Townships, and Gaspé regions. The Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan (i/səˈskætʃɨwən/ or /səˈskætʃɨwɑːn/) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588,276 square kilometres (227,100 sq mi). Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota.
As of April 2011, the population of Saskatchewan was estimated at 1,053,960. Residents primarily live in the southern half of the province. Of the total population, 257,300 live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, while 210,000 live in the provincial capital, Regina. Other major cities include Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current and North Battleford.
Saskatchewan was first explored by Europeans in 1690 and settled in 1774, having also been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups. It became a province in 1905. Saskatchewan's current premier is Brad Wall and its lieutenant-governor is Vaughn Solomon Schofield. Its major industries are agriculture, mining, and energy. "In 1992, the federal and provincial governments signed a historic land claim agreement with Saskatchewan First Nations. Under the Agreement, the First Nations received money to buy land on the open market. As a result, about 761,000 acres have been turned into reserve land and many First Nations continue to invest their settlement dollars in urban areas", including Saskatoon.
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Spain
Spain (i/ˈspeɪn/ SPAYN; Spanish: España, pronounced: [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north and north east by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llívia is a Spanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine and France.
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Toronto
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/, colloquially /ˈtrɒnoʊ/) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The settlement was later established as the Town of York and proclaimed as the new capital of Upper Canada by its lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe. In 1834, York was incorporated as a city and renamed to its present name. The city was ransacked in the Battle of York during the War of 1812 and damaged in two great fires in 1849 and in 1904. Since its incorporation, Toronto has repeatedly expanded its borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities, most recently in 1998.
With over 2.6 million residents, it is the fifth most populous city in North America. Its metropolitan area has over 5.5 million residents. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which has a population of nearly 9 million people as of 2011. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,583,064, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 6,054,191 in the 2011 Census. Its cosmopolitan and international population reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, with about 49% of the population born outside Canada. Toronto is also consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Vancouver
Vancouver (/vænˈkuːvər/) is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The 2011 census recorded more than 603,000 people in the city, making it the eighth largest among Canadian cities. The metropolitan area, with more than 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country and the most populous in Western Canada. With 5,249 people per square kilometre (13,590 per sq mile), the City of Vancouver is the most densely populated Canadian municipality among those with 5,000 residents or more. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, with 52% for whom English is not their first language.
The original settlement, named Gastown, grew around the Hastings Mill logging sawmill and a nearby tavern, both established in 1867. Enlarging to become the townsite of Granville, with the announcement that the railhead would reach the site it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated as a city in 1886. By 1887, the transcontinental railway was extended to the city to take advantage of its large natural seaport, which soon became a vital link in a trade route between the Orient, Eastern Canada, and London. As of 2009, Port Metro Vancouver is the busiest and largest port in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and Burnaby have turned Metro Vancouver into the third-largest film production centre in North America after Los Angeles and New York City, earning it the film industry nickname, Hollywood North.
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Winnipeg
Winnipegi/ˈwɪnɪpɛɡ/ is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers (a point commonly known as The Forks).
The name "Winnipeg" comes from the Cree for "muddy waters". The Winnipeg area was a trading centre for Aboriginal peoples prior to the arrival of Europeans. The first fort was built there in 1738 by French traders. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873 with a population of 1,869. Winnipeg is the seventh-largest municipality in Canada, with a population of 663,617 in the Canada 2011 Census.
Winnipeg has a diversified economy, with sectors in finance, manufacturing, food and beverage production, culture, retail and tourism. Winnipeg is a major transportation hub, served by Richardson International Airport. The city has railway connections to the United States and Eastern and Western Canada through three Class I rail carriers.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web, or the "Information Superhighway"), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. At CERN, a European research organization near Geneva situated on Swiss and French soil, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and they publicly introduced the project in December.
In the May 1970 issue of Popular Science magazine Arthur C. Clarke was reported to have predicted that satellites would one day "bring the accumulated knowledge of the world to your fingertips" using a console that would combine the functionality of the Xerox, telephone, television and a small computer, allowing data transfer and video conferencing around the globe. Clarke also determined that geosyncronous orbit would be possible at the altitude of 22,000 miles, which is why that region is called the Clarke Belt.
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Alex Pierson
Alex Pierson is a Canadian news anchor.
She began working in television in 1995 at CHCH-TV in Hamilton, and later became an employee of CKAL-TV in Calgary. A few years later she returned and began working at CKVR-TV in Barrie, followed by her joining CITY-TV in Toronto.
For a few years she was the co-anchor of Toronto's 11 p.m. CityNews with Mark Dailey, as well as a reporter for CityNews at Six and cp24. She left Citytv in September 2006. After a hiatus from television news, she returned and joined CIII-TV as a reporter. After 4 years reporting on courts and crime and anchoring the weekend news, Pierson left to take an anchor position with Sun News Network.
In 2011, the Sun News Network announced Pierson would be co-host of The Roundtable, the network's morning show, along with Pat Bolland and Andrea Slobodian.
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Alfred Vail
Alfred Lewis Vail (September 25, 1807 – January 18, 1859) was a machinist and inventor. Vail was central, with Samuel F. B. Morse, in developing and commercializing the telegraph between 1837 and 1844. Vail and Morse were the first two telegraph operators on Morse's first experimental line between Washington, DC, and Baltimore, and Vail took charge of building and managing several early telegraph lines between 1845 and 1848. He was also responsible for several technical innovations of Morse's system, particularly the sending key and improved recording registers and relay magnets. Vail left the telegraph industry in 1848 because he believed that the managers of Morse's lines did not fully value his contributions. His last assignment, superintendent of the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company, paid him only $900 a year, leading Vail to write to Morse, "I have made up my mind to leave the Telegraph to take care of itself, since it cannot take care of me. I shall, in a few months, leave Washington for New Jersey, ... and bid adieu to the subject of the Telegraph for some more profitable business."
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Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur (born June 27, 1976 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian television and netcasting personality. MacArthur is currently the co-host of BNN's App Central.
MacArthur also produces and co-hosts her own video podcast, called commandN, and co-hosts the TWiT podcast network's Social Hour (successor to net@night/Inside the Net). MacArthur is known for the series Call for Help, but has also hosted on Torrent and Gadgets and Gizmos for G4techTV Canada. MacArthur worked for over a year for Citytv's CityNews and CP24, and she had returned to the now CTV-owned CP24 as New Media Specialist and was the host of Webnation. She previously hosted and produced a show for Xbox called "Girls Go Geek" with Christopher Dick that features women in technology.[citation needed]
MacArthur is originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and lives in Toronto. She received an undergraduate degree in English from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She enjoys running, snowboarding, randomly browsing the Internet, wrist watches, not collecting wrist watches, usability articles, and spontaneous road trips. Her brother is Jeff MacArthur. She and Christopher Dick have one son named Connor, born on February 8, 2009 .
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Andrew Krystal
Andrew Krystal (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian news reporter for CityNews for Citytv Toronto. He has previously been a radio talk show host, his most recent stints being on the Rogers Communications news talk network in the Canadian Maritimes, and sports talk radio station The Fan 590 in Toronto. Krystal is also a writer and occasional TV current affairs panelist.
Following his studies in English and international relations at the University of Toronto, Krystal began a career in radio syndication.
From 1986 to 1991 he worked with Sonic Workshop, owned by the late David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght, where he co-produced, wrote, voiced and sold the Entertainment Tonight-style series Entertainment Week and Entertainment Today, which aired in 60 Canadian markets. Following syndicated radio, he hosted and wrote independent TV series and travel guide programs.[citation needed]
He hosted The Andrew Krystal Show on Sunday nights on Toronto's CFRB, and also hosted talk radio programs on CFMJ (Talk 640/Mojo Radio) in Toronto, and on CKTB in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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Andrew Schultz
Andrew Schultz (born in Adelaide, South Australia, in August 1960) is an Australian classical composer. Since 2002 he has lived in New South Wales on the coast south of Sydney. He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award (1982), the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (1985), APRA Award (1993) and the Schueler Award (2007). He holds a Bachelor of Music (Hons), Master of Music, and Ph.D. in musical composition.
His compositions cover a broad range of Chamber music, orchestral and vocal works and have been performed, recorded and broadcast widely by leading groups and musicians internationally. He has held many commissions, including from the major Australian orchestras and four Composer Fellowships from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Schultz has written a number of large scale works including three operas — Black River (1989), Going Into Shadows (2001) and The Children's Bach (2008) — which have been presented live and on film (see: Black River (1993 film)) around the world. Other major works include Journey to Horseshoe Bend (2003) and Song of Songs (2004). Journey to Horseshoe Bend and Black River are considered innovative in their socially relevant topics and their use of indigenous performers. Schultz has held residencies and academic posts in the UK, US and Australia.
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Ann Rohmer
Ann Margaret Rohmer (born 2 March 1958) is a television personality on CP24 in Toronto, Canada.
In 1979, she hosted the syndicated program Show Biz. Hired by the Global Television Network, she was a host on the award-winning magazine show That’s Life. Following that she was a features reporter on CTV's Canada AM.
In 1986, she joined Citytv as the CityPulse Weekend sports anchor. She was the first Canadian female sports reporter allowed to interview athletes in their changing rooms. Three years later, she began waking up at 5:00 a.m. to host BT-Breakfast Television - a routine she maintained for a 12-year run. Deciding it was time for a change, in October 2001, Rohmer became Anchor for CP24 and host of City Online, a week daily interactive talk show after CityNews @ Noon that gives viewers the chance to comment on the specific news as it is covered, viewers either participate in a phone poll or call into the show (there is also Toll Free number that the viewers can call in ) or fax or e-mail to speak on the show. Rohmer is also Joined by guests for the specific news covered. In February 2002, she also took on hosting duties for CP24's new real estate show, Hot Property. She also hosts Animal House Calls. Rohmer will sometimes fill in as host of HomePage for Jee-Yun Lee and Perfect Fit for Tonya Rouse. Rohmer is also well known for her support of the World Wildlife Fund and other animal-related charities. Ann currently hosts CP24 weekdays starting at 9am and lasting through the afternoon. She also anchored the new CP24 program More On CP24 (added news coverage during commercial breaks of CityTv's Breakfast Television), the 'Live at Noon' newscast that gets the most up to date Weather/Traffic and chats along with Co-Host Stephen LeDrew as well as various CP24 weekday talk shows. As of March 2009, Rohmer is host of CP24 Breakfast.
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Anne Mroczkowski
Anne Mroczkowski (/mrɔːzˈkaʊskiː/, mroch-KOV-skee) is a Canadian TV reporter and news anchor. She is currently co-anchor of Global News Hour, along with Leslie Roberts, a job she started on June 1, 2010.
She is a Gemini-award winning television journalist, beginning her career at Global TV, then moving on to Citytv's CityNews (formerly CityPulse) newscast in Toronto. She was the senior co-anchor of CityNews at Six, with Gord Martineau, from 1987 until she was let go on January 18, 2010 in a round of staff cutbacks.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario to a Polish and Slovak immigrant family, Mroczkowski was raised in Toronto. Divorced from her husband in 2006, she lives in Bloor West Village.
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Avery Haines
Avery Haines (born ca. 1966 in New Mexico, United States) is a Canadian television journalist.
Haines began her career as a reporter for CFRB in Toronto. In late 1999, she began to work as a fill-in anchor for CTV Newsnet.
On January 15, 2000, working a shift for the news channel, Haines made a mistake with a line while taping a report introduction. After regaining her composure, she joked:
However, the camera was still on. Haines retaped the segment, but later that day, a CTV technician mistakenly aired the tape which included the error and the comment.
On January 17, Haines was fired from CTV Newsnet after her comments sparked controversy. The unnamed technician was suspended.
Haines was soon hired by Citytv Toronto as a health reporter. In fall 2001, she began hosting Health On the Line, which aired on Life Network and Discovery Health, but is now out of production.
Haines has spent the past couple of years living in Costa Rica.
On September 15, 2010, Haines returned to Citytv as a reporter.
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Avi Lewis
Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born 1968) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines, and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs program On the Map.
Avi Lewis is the great grandson of Moshe Losz (Lewis), an outspoken member of the Jewish Bund who left Svisloch, Poland (today Belarus) for Montreal in 1921, with his wife Rose (née Lazarovitch) and three children, after being interrogated by the Russians for days and threatened with death or the Gulag for his political activity. Avi Lewis is the grandson of former federal NDP leader David Lewis and the son of politician and diplomat Stephen Lewis and journalist Michele Landsberg. Avi Lewis is married to journalist and author Naomi Klein; his sister Ilana Landsberg-Lewis is married to musician and activist Lorraine Segato.
Lewis grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and attended Jarvis Collegiate and Upper Canada College. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1988.
Lewis was featured on the November 20, 2001 "Life & Times" episode of The Lewis Family.
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Beatrice Politi
Beatrice Politi BA is a Canadian television journalist and is currently working for Global Television Network.
The Sudbury, Ontario native studied political science and mass media at York University and graduated with honours there. She then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism at Ryerson University. During her time at York, she worked for the university's radio station, CHRY-FM.
After graduating, she worked at Toronto cable station Rogers Television, educational broadcaster TV Ontario and public broadcaster CBC Television's Canada Now. Politi briefly worked as a reporter with CablePulse 24 in Toronto, Ontario before moving to Ottawa for Citytv, A-Channel and CablePulse24 She is now the health specialist at Global Television in Toronto.
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Bill Cameron
William "Bill" Cameron (January 23, 1943 – March 12, 2005) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author. After attending the University of Toronto and spending time in New York City pursuing a career in acting, he got his start on CBC Radio as a freelance entertainment critic in the 1960s before moving on to Maclean's magazine where he was an associate editor and then to Global TV in 1978 as host of Newsweek.
In the 1980s, Cameron worked for Citytv as the late night anchor for CityPulse, but was let go in 1983. Cameron's best known for his work on the CBC television from 1983 to 1999, where he co-hosted Midday, was a reporter on documentaries and an occasional anchor of The Journal, and later anchored the local evening news on CBLT in Toronto, the CBC Morning News in Halifax, and the afternoon show Newsworld International on CBC Newsworld. He left the CBC in 1999 to become vice president of communications for an online financial marketing firm. His brief corporate career ended in 2000 and he returned to journalism and writing. He also took the ethics chair at the Ryerson School of Journalism and freelanced for the National Post and The Walrus.
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Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). However, Wheatstone is best known for his contributions in the development of the Wheatstone bridge, originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistance, and as a major figure in the development of telegraphy.
Charles Wheatstone was born in Barnwood Gloucester Gloucester. His father was a music-seller in the town, who moved to 128 Pall Mall, London, four years later, becoming a teacher of the flute. Charles, the second son, went to a village school, near Gloucester, and afterwards to several institutions in London. One of them was in Kennington, and kept by a Mrs. Castlemaine, who was astonished at his rapid progress. From another he ran away, but was captured at Windsor, not far from the theatre of his practical telegraph. As a boy he was very shy and sensitive, liking well to retire into an attic, without any other company than his own thoughts.
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Claude Chappe
Claude Chappe (December 25, 1763 – January 23, 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, making Chappe the first telecom mogul with his "mechanical internet."
Chappe was born in Brûlon, Sarthe, France, the grandson of a French baron. He was raised for church service, but lost his sinecure during the French Revolution. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.
He and his four unemployed brothers decided to develop a practical system of semaphore relay stations, a task proposed in antiquity, yet never realized.
Claude's brother, Ignace Chappe (1760–1829) was a member of the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution. With his help, the Assembly supported a proposal to build a relay line from Paris to Lille (fifteen stations, about 120 miles), to carry dispatches from the war.
The Chappe brothers determined by experiment that the angles of a rod were easier to see than the presence or absence of panels. Their final design had two arms connected by a cross-arm. Each arm had seven positions, and the cross-arm had four more permitting a 196-combination code. The arms were from three to thirty feet long, black, and counterweighted, moved by only two handles. Lamps mounted on the arms proved unsatisfactory for night use. The relay towers were placed from 12 to 25 km (10 to 20 miles) apart. Each tower had a telescope pointing both up and down the relay line. Chappe first called his invention the "tachygraph", which means fast writer. A friend suggested a name meaning a far writer, telegraph.
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Cynthia Mulligan
Cynthia Mulligan is a Canadian television presenter on Citytv's CityNews.
Mulligan studied English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She started at Citytv in the CityPulse library. Before moving over to CityNews, she was a news writer for Breakfast Television. Mulligan has also been an ENG Cameraperson and a videographer. She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when CTV Globemedia acquired the channel.
Mulligan currently works as a reporter on CityNews at 6 (weekdays) as an education specialist/reporter. Her work has been nominate for a Gemini Award for best local reporting.
Mulligan has two daughters. In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and has since reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment.
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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian comedian, singer, actor and screenwriter. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952, at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Peter Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène (née Gougeon), is a secretary, of French Canadian descent. His brother, Peter, also became a comedy actor. Aykroyd was born with syndactyly (webbed toes), which was revealed in the movie Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live (Don't Look Back In Anger). He was also born with heterochromia (a condition of having two differently coloured eyes). His right eye is green and his left eye is brown.
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David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. He has been called "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world."
Born in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg was the son of Esther (born Sumberg), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor. His family has been described as "a nurturing middle class family." He began writing as a child and wrote constantly. He attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute. A keen interest in science, especially botany and lepidopterology, led him to enter the Honours Science program the University of Toronto in 1963, but he switched to Honors English Language and Literature later in his first year. Cronenberg's fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm (1966) by classmate David Secter sparked his interest in film. He began frequenting film camera rental houses, learning art of filmmaking and made two 16mm films (Transfer and From the Drain). Inspired by the New York underground film scene, he founded the Toronto Film Co-op with Iain Ewing and Ivan Reitman. After taking a year off to travel in Europe, he returned to Canada in 1967, graduating from University College at the top of his class.
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David Onley
David Charles Onley,OOnt (born June 12, 1950) is the 28th and current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada.
Onley was a television journalist prior to his viceregal appointment. He worked primarily for Citytv as a science and technology reporter, and for the 24-hour news station CablePulse 24 as a news anchor and host of a weekly technology series, Home Page. A published author, he was founding president of the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada.
David Onley was born in Midland, Ontario, and raised in West Hill on Orchard Park Drive in Scarborough, now part of Toronto. He was educated at the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in political science.
Beginning at the age of three, Onley battled with polio, resulting in partial paralysis. However, as a result of extensive physical therapy, he regained the use of his hands and arms, and partial use of his legs. Onley is able to walk using leg braces and canes or crutches, but he generally prefers to get around using his electric scooter. He is able to drive a car using hand controls for acceleration and braking.
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David Peterson
David Robert Peterson, PC, O.Ont (born December 28, 1943) was the 20th Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years.
Peterson is married to actress Shelley Peterson, and is the younger brother of Jim Peterson, formerly a federal Liberal MP and cabinet minister. Both his sister-in-law Deb Matthews and Tim Peterson, a third brother, were elected to the Ontario legislature in the 2003 provincial election while Deb Matthews was re elected in 2007 and 2011. He has three children named Benjamin, Chloe and Adam.
David Peterson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and his law degree from the University of Toronto. He was called to the bar in 1969. Despite his legal background, most of Peterson's early career was spent in the world of private enterprise. At the age of twenty-six, he became president of C.M. Peterson Company Limited, a wholesale electronics firm founded by his father, and joined the Chamber of Commerce's Young Presidents Club in the same period.
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Denise Donlon
Denise Anne Donlon, CM (born 22 February 1956) is a Canadian executive, television producer, television host, and programme director.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she joined MuchMusic in 1985 as a host and producer. In 1992, she became the director of music programming, and was named vice-president and general manager in 1997.
From 2000 to 2004, she was the president of Sony Music Canada.
In 2005, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of CHUM Limited.
On September 17, 2008, Donlon was named executive director of CBC Radio's English-language services. She left CBC on or about July 8, 2011 and was succeeded by her 2nd in command, Chris Boyce.
She is a board member of the Governor General's Lifetime Achievement Performing Arts Awards, as well as Margaret Atwood's Long Pen Unotchit, is a trustee of Robert F Kennedy Jr's Canadian Waterkeepers, is committee member of MusiCounts. She holds two honourary doctorates (University of Calgary and University of Waterloo). She is a member of the Canadian Broadcasters Hall of Fame, she is a Lifetime Award recipient of the Toronto Women in Film and Television. In 2009 she was named one of Canada's Top l00 Powerful Women. She has won the Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit (ABC Canada), a Woman of Vision Award, and Woman of the Year from Canadian Women in Communications. She holds two Gemini Awards - Special Event Coverage - Election Night 93 and in 1992, as Producer for the New Music. She won a Golden Sheaf Award from the Yorkton Film Festival for 'In Your Face - Violence in Music' in 1993. She has produced various charitable events including the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (2008), President Clinton's 60th birthday party (2007 with Frank Giustra and Sam Feldman), Live 8 (Co-producer, Toronto 2006), Rock the Walk (Canada's Walk of Fame 2005/2006) and was involved with the Tsunami Concert of Hope event among others.
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Derek Taylor
Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 – 8 September 1997) was an English journalist, writer and publicist, best known for his work as press officer for The Beatles. He had started his career as a local journalist in Liverpool working for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, then becoming a North England-based writer for national British newspapers that included the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch and the Sunday Express. He also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express.
Taylor was a national journalist when he was assigned to write a review of a Beatles concert. He had been expected by his editors to write a piece critical of what at that time was considered by the national press as an inconsequential teen fad. However, he was enchanted by the group and instead sang their praises. Shortly afterwards, he was invited to meet The Beatles and soon became a trusted journalist in their circle.
As The Beatles gained national attention in Britain, Taylor's editors conceived of running a column ostensibly written by a Beatle to boost circulation, to be ghostwritten by Taylor. George Harrison was the Beatle eventually decided upon. Although Taylor was initially only given the right to approve or disapprove of the content, Harrison's dissection of the first draft turned the column into an ongoing collaboration between the two, with Harrison providing the stories and Taylor providing the polish.
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Dina Pugliese
Dina Pugliese (born May 22, 1974) is a Canadian television personality, currently the co-host of Citytv Toronto's Breakfast Television. She joined the show in 2006, replacing Liza Fromer.
Born in Toronto, Pugliese is a graduate of York University (Sociology and Mass Communications) and Humber College (Journalism). Prior to joining Breakfast Television, she began her career as a producer of Global Television Network's The Bynon Show and Toronto 1's Toronto Today, later becoming an entertainment reporter and host of The A-List and Star!'s Star! Daily. She has also hosted MuchMusic's MuchMusic VJ Search and Citytv's New Year's Eve special from Nathan Phillips Square.
Pugliese is married to founder of campayn.com, Alek Mirkovich.
On October 17, 2011, Martin Short announced on Breakfast Television that Pugliese will be the host of Canada's Got Talent, the Canadian version of the hit international franchise which is scheduled to air early 2012.
2006 - Gemini Award Nomination for Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Performing Arts Program or Series for MuchMusic VJ Search - The Series.
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Dini Petty
Dini Petty (born January 15, 1945 in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England) is a Canadian television and radio host. At 22, wearing a trademark pink jumpsuit and working for Toronto radio station CKEY, she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter. She clocked five thousand hours as pilot-in-command of a Hughes 300.
Later, at Citytv Toronto, she worked as a writer, reporter and co-anchor, with Gord Martineau, of evening newscast CityPulse at 6. There she hosted an afternoon program, Sweet City Woman. Petty also anchored CITY-TV's short-lived 5:30 p.m. news & current affairs program CityWide from May 1987 until 1989 when she left for CFTO-TV.
In 1980, a documentary camera followed her pregnancy and the birth of her son Nicholas.
On Citytv's daily talk show CityLine, Petty established herself as one of Canada's foremost television talk show hosts. She left her news anchor position to concentrate on CityLine.
In 1989, Petty moved to CFTO and the Baton Broadcasting System. Her hour-long general interest talk show, The Dini Petty Show, aired until 1996.
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Dwight Drummond
Dwight Drummond (born September 22, 1968 in Montego Bay, Jamaica) is a Canadian television journalist, currently working for CBC Television in Toronto, Ontario.
Drummond moved to Canada in 1976 and was raised in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood. He attended high school at Runnymede Collegiate Institute, and is a graduate of the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University.
Drummond was Citytv's crime specialist. He started out at Citytv as a security guard on Electric Circus in 1989. He has since worked as a teleprompter operator, floor director, studio cameraman, deputy chief of assignment, anchor of CityNews Streetbeat, and videographer for CityNews. During this time, he appeared in the Maestro Fresh-Wes music video "Let Your Backbone Slide" as the cameraman at the beginning sequences.
In 1995, Drummond was accosted by two Toronto Police officers in what the officers described as a "high-risk takedown", but which was characterized by outside observers as a racial profiling assault as there was no evidence that Drummond had done anything besides driving while black. The allegation of police misconduct was one of several which contributed to a wildcat strike by police officers in the summer of 1995; current Toronto police chief Bill Blair, a supporter of community policing models, was assigned to head the affected police division in response to the strike. The incident also reportedly contributed to Drummond's own decision to move from a technical to an on-air journalist's role with Citytv.
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Edward Rogers III
Edward Samuel Rogers III is, as of 2009, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications.
Edward Rogers was appointed Deputy Chairman of Rogers Communications on September 15, 2009. In this capacity Edward will oversee major strategic initiatives including long term strategic planning, balance sheet strategies, strategic relationships, mergers and acquisitions and all new business development, including Rogers Business Solutions.
From January 2003 to September 2009 Edward was President & Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Cable Inc., which consists of three business units. Rogers Cable is Canada's largest Cable Company offering cable television, high-speed Internet access and residential telephony services. Its Rogers Business Solutions division is a national provider of voice communications services, data networking and broadband Internet connectivity to small, medium and large businesses across the country. Rogers Retail is one of the largest retail chains in Canada with more than 475 stores. In 2009 the Company generated over $3.8 billion in revenue, over $1.3 billion in EBITDA and had over 14,000 employees.
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Edward Samuel Rogers
Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr. is regarded as the founder of the company, although the radio station that he founded, CFRB, is now owned by another Canadian company competitor Astral Media.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Rogers was educated at Upper Canada College. Rogers graduated from Trinity College in the University of Toronto, in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While an undergrad, Rogers joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. In 1979 he was named a Significant Sig—the 21st Canadian to be inducted. In 1960, while still a student at Osgoode Hall Law School, he bought all the shares in local radio station (CHFI) that pioneered the use of FM at a time when only 5% of the Toronto households had FM receivers. By 1965, he was in the cable TV business; Rogers Communications was established in 1967 and had grown into one of Canada's largest media conglomerates.
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Elaine Yong
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Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.
Gray is also considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer, and was granted over 70 patents for his inventions.
Born into a Quaker family in Barnesville, Ohio, Gray was brought up on a farm. He spent several years at Oberlin College where he experimented with electrical devices. Although Gray was not a graduate of Oberlin College, he taught electricity and science at Oberlin and built laboratory equipment for Oberlin science departments.
In 1862 while at Oberlin, Gray met and married Delia Minerva Shepard.
In 1865 Gray invented a self-adjusting telegraph relay that automatically adapted to varying insulation of the telegraph line.
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Farah Nasser
Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist with CablePulse24 as of February 22, 2010. She previously anchored CityTv Toronto's 'CityNews' weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters.
In 2001, at the age of 20, she landed a summer job with CNN in New Delhi, India. She was then a second-year radio and television student at (then) Ryerson Polytechnic University. As per a photo caption in the GTA Today newspaper of May 11, 2001, she wrote to every bureau CNN had and most required a credit course she didn't have by then, except Miami and New Delhi.
"I chose New Delhi because it's on the other side of the world," she said.
She started that job on Monday, May 14, 2001.
Farah Nasser is currently an Anchor/Reporter for CP24 and is also co-host with Nathan Downer on CP24 Live at 5:30. She is also substitute for Nathan Downer on Live at 5 & Live at 5:30.
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Frank Ferragine
Frank Ferragine (born March 4, 1972) is currently the morning weatherman on Citytv's morning show Breakfast Television, and is the station's flower expert using the nickname Frankie Flowers.
Originally a fill in for Nalini Sharma (on maternity leaving during the summer of 2005), he returned to the show when Sharma was re-assigned to later time spots.
Ferragine's family runs Bradford Greenhouses and is a director of the annual Canada Blooms flower show. He has also been host at the Alliston Garden Tour "What's New in Horticulture" and "Get Growing" on Barrie, Ontario radio station CKBB.
Ferragine is married and has a son Gavin who was born in 2007, and son Matheson, who was born March 24, 2009.
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Gord Martineau
Gord Martineau (born September 23, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian television journalist.
Martineau is the senior anchor of Citytv's CityNews (formerly CityPulse) newscast in Toronto. He has been with the station since its inception, except for a few weeks in 1980 when he moved to Global Television Network as a news co-anchor for CIII. The job did not work out, so Martineau returned to CityPulse. He also briefly worked for CFTO-TV in Toronto around that time, and before coming to CITY, he was the weekend anchor of Pulse on CFCF-TV in Montreal.
Martineau has also appeared as a news anchor in a few movies filmed in Toronto, including Undue Influence, Dirty Work, and Urban Legend".
He played a similar role in the 2012 web series Guidestones.
In April 2007, Gord Martineau received a lifetime achievement award from the RTNDA for 40 years in broadcasting. 30 of those years were at his current home, Citytv Toronto.
Noted for outstanding charity work, Gord Martineau has been associated with the Kidney Foundation, the Kid's Helpline, the Fred Victor Centre, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Ireland Fund and most notably, the Herbie Fund where he has personally escorted children in need of life-saving surgery from countries as far away as the Philippines to superlative care at the Hospital for Sick Children.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: [ɡuʎˈʎɛːlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". Much of Marconi's work in radio transmission was built upon previous experimentation and the commercial exploitation of ideas by others such as Hertz, Maxwell, Faraday, Popov, Lodge, Fessenden, Stone, Bose, and Tesla. As an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of the The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in 1897, Marconi succeeded in making a commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists. In 1924, he was ennobled as Marchese Marconi.
Marconi was born in Bologna on April 25, 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian landowner, and his Irish wife, Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in the County Wexford, Ireland and granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of whiskey distillers Jameson & Sons. Marconi was educated privately in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero and, later, in Livorno. As a child Marconi did not do well in school.Baptized as a Catholic, he was also a member of the Anglican Church, being married into it; however, he still received a Catholic annulment.
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Hugh Burrill
Hugh Burrill is a Canadian television sports anchor and reporter.
Hugh was born and raised in Chalk River, Ontario. His birthday is September 9
Burrill began his career working for numerous radio stations for a few years. His first television gig was at his current home, Citytv Toronto, working as a writer for Breakfast Television. He was soon named the news producer and then he became an on-air personality as sports specialist for Breakfast Television and CityNews @ Noon. He was then moved to CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight Weekend Editions.
On January 19, 2010, many Citytv staff members were laid off and several newscasts, including the weekend newscasts, were cancelled. Burrill became a sports reporter and substitute for Kathryn Humphreys as sports anchor. Weekend editions of CityNews returned in March 2011, and Burrill returned to his position of weekend sports anchor.
He is an avid Montreal Canadiens fan.
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Jennifer Martin
Jennifer Martin is an American voice actress, who is best known for her deep sexy voice.
She provides the voice of Ms. Sara Bellum, who is the Mayor of Townsville's assistant, in the Cartoon Network-Hanna Barbera animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, as well as in the movie and in all the video games and recently, in 2009 she voiced Ms. Bellum in Cartoon Network's new animated series Chowder.
She also voiced Euryale, the sister of Medusa and one of the boss characters in the video game God of War II and Ikra in one episode of Samurai Jack. She has also done voices for several other animated series, such as Dexter's Laboratory, I Am Weasel and Johnny Bravo.
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Jennifer Valentyne
Jennifer Elizabeth Valentyne (née Peck; born May 31, 1967) is a Canadian television personality. She hosts the "Live Eye" segment and also fills in for Dina Pugliese as co-host on Breakfast Television, as well as filling in for Tracy Moore as host on CityLine which both air on Citytv Toronto.
Jennifer has been with CITY-TV since 1987, when she began as a volunteer. She made it on air occasionally in the early 1990s, under the title "The Prize Queen" on "Speakers Corner". She eventually became a regular on-air with Breakfast Television where she remains to this day. She has posed as the Toronto Sun's Sunshine Girl on at least two occasions.
Besides being a former Toronto Argonauts cheerleader, Jennifer is a singer/songwriter, and can sometimes be found performing in and around Toronto. She sings jazz standards and originals. She released a CD in 2001/02 which is available for sale in the CITY-TV store.
Jennifer earned a Radio & Television Broadcasting Diploma from Toronto's Centennial College.
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Jerry Grafstein
Jerahmiel S. "Jerry" Grafstein (born January 2, 1935) is a former Canadian Senator and lawyer.
He is married to Carole (née Sniderman) and has two children, Laurence Stephen and Michael Kevin.
A graduate of the University of Western Ontario and University of Toronto Law School, Grafstein is a Toronto-based financier, political fundraiser, advisor and "backroom boy" who has worked on numerous political campaigns for the Liberal Party of Canada and Ontario Liberal Party, as well as local Toronto campaigns. A senior advisor to Pierre Trudeau, Grafstein was appointed to the Senate in January 1984 several weeks prior to Trudeau's retirement.
Since the 1960s, he has been a corporate lawyer, specializing in the areas of communications and administrative law. He has founded several media companies around the world, and is a partner in the legal firm Minden Gross LLP.
In 1972, he was one of the founders of Citytv. He was also an organizer of the 2003 Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert to help the city recover from the outbreak of SARS.
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Jill Belland
Jill Belland is a Canadian TV personality based in Calgary, Alberta. She serves as a host and producer at Citytv Calgary.
Belland was born in Edmonton and moved to Calgary at a young age. She studied classical piano and trained to be a singer. Belland studied at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Communications and Culture with a concentration in Media Studies.
She joined the Calgary Stampeders Outriders cheerleading squad, which she was part of for four years. While with the Stampeders, she sang the national anthem at home games. Belland has also worked as a stage actress, performing in local productions such as Jesus Hopped the "A" Train,The Full Monty, and Man Out of Joint.
Belland was hired by A-Channel in Calgary (CKAL-TV was previously known as A-Channel, and is now known as Citytv Calgary). Her initial job was "Coffee Girl" doing various gopher tasks for the The Big Breakfast TV show. She then assisted in production with the Big Breakfast show and the station's news department.
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Jim McKenny
James Claude "Howie" McKenny (born December 1, 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a retired NHL defenceman and a sports reporter for the Citytv television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He played 604 games between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars. His nickname 'Howie' came from his resemblance to Howie Young. McKenny once said "Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental".
Jim McKenny was born in Ottawa and he moved to Toronto as a child. McKenny's personal life and career was disrupted by bouts of alcoholism developed during his teen-age years. McKenny played with the Neil McNeil Maroons of the Metro Junior A league in 1962–63. When the league folded in 1963, McKenny transferred to the Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros, who won the Memorial Cup in 1964. As a junior, McKenny was considered the second-best defenceman prospect after Bobby Orr.
He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round of the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft, 17th Overall. He was called up from the Marlies to play 2 games with the Leafs in the 1965–66 season. He was given two other opportunities to make the Leafs team in 1966-67 during their successful run for the Stanley Cup and the following season, but only played a total of eleven games. He was not promoted to the Maple Leafs for several years, attributed to a poor attitude, possibly his alcoholism and his antipathy towards the high-pressure style of coach and GM Punch Imlach. He played in the minor leagues for the Tulsa Oilers (CPHL), the Rochester Americans (AHL), and the Vancouver Canucks (WHL). McKenny and Don Cherry were roommates when on the road with the Rochester Americans.
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Johann Philipp Reis
Johann Philipp Reis (January 7, 1834 – January 14, 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone.
Reis was born in Gelnhausen, Germany. Reis's mother died while he was an infant, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother, a well-read, intelligent woman. At the age of six Reis was sent to the common school of his home town of Gelnhausen. Here his talents attracted the notice of his instructors, who advised his father to extend his education at a higher college. His father died before Reis was ten years old. His grandmother and guardians placed him at Garnier's Institute, in Friedrichsdorf, where he showed a taste for languages, and acquired both French and English, as well as a stock of miscellaneous information from the library.
At the end of his fourteenth year, Reis was accepted to a Hassel Institute, at Frankfurt am Main, where he learned Latin and Italian. A love of science became apparent, and his guardians were recommended to send him to the Polytechnic School of Karlsruhe. His uncle wished him to become a merchant, and on March 1, 1850, Reis was apprenticed as a paints dealer in the establishment of J. F. Beyerbach, of Frankfurt, against his will. He told his uncle that he would learn the business chosen for him, but would continue his preferred studies as he could.
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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottishengineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems (such as those of Vladimir Zworykin, Marconi-EMI and Philo Farnsworth), Baird's early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television's invention. In 2002, Logie Baird was ranked number 44 in the list of the "100 Greatest Britons" following a UK-wide vote. In 2006, Logie Baird was also named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'. The "Baird" brand name was first owned by Thorn-EMI and was sold off to a small Chinese manufacturer when Thorn-EMI was dissolved.
Baird was born in [[Helensburgh], Argyll and Bute (then Dunbartonshire). He was educated at Larchfield Academy (now part of Lomond School) in Helensburgh; the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (which later became the University of Strathclyde); and the University of Glasgow. His degree course was interrupted by World War I and he never returned to graduate.
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Jojo Chintoh
Jojo Chintoh (born c. 1944 in Ghana) is a Canadian television journalist, who worked as a feature and documentary reporter for Citytv in Toronto until 2009/2010.
Chintoh moved to Canada with his family in 1969. He became editor of several newspapers, including Contrast, before joining Citytv in 1978. He was hired at a time when Moses Znaimer was making efforts to have television personalities reflect the diverse cultures of the city, and Chintoh was the first black reporter on the station. He focused on crime reporting for the station in the early 1990s.
He is the father of three daughters Adjoa, Araba and Mansa.
In 1985, Chintoh received a CanPro award and a Gemini award nomination for his series, "Down and Out in Parkdale". He received the 1984 Sovereign Award from the Canadian Racing Community for his "Quest for the Plate" series.
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Julie Nolin
Julie Nolin is a Canadian journalist. She was born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Lethbridge.
Prior to working in television, she was a newspaper reporter, photographer and editor. Since 1996, she has filled various roles at stations in Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Swift Current, Calgary, Saskatoon and Edmonton. She was an anchor at A-Channel Edmonton (now Citytv Edmonton) until 2005, when she joined Citytv Vancouver and became a co-anchor on CityNews at Six alongside Roger Petersen. The newscast was cancelled on July 12, 2006; she later joined CHEK-TV as a news anchor. She left CHEK-TV in 2009.
Aside from her work as an anchor, Nolin is a respected reporter and producer.
For over six years, Nolin was a documentary director, writer and producer for the award-winning program, "The Sharing Circle," which airs on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Her great, great grandfather is Metis politician Charles Nolin.
Nolin is married to Canadian political cartoonist Craig George. They have two sons.
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Kathryn Humphreys
Kathryn Humphreys (born 19 September 1970 in Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian sports anchor for CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight. She was previously with CityNews Weekend which she joined in March 1997.
She previously worked as an intern at 680 News in the sports department in Toronto and WBZ-TV in Boston. She returned to the Muskoka area to work at The Moose 100.9 FM in Bracebridge reporting news, sports and weather.
As the daughter of the Oshawa Generals owner, she has plenty of exposure to sports. She has played basketball, volleyball and football while sitting on Victoria College's Athletic Executive Board during university. She was also the one-time girlfriend of former NHL goalie, Craig Billington. She is married to Johnny Fay of The Tragically Hip.
She earned an English degree, honours degree, and a minor in history from the University of Toronto.
The broadcaster confirmed her departure from Citytv in November 2007 after failing to resolve a new contract with station management. However, the contract dispute was resolved, and on 10 December 2007 she re-assumed her position as a CityNews sportscaster. She will also be appearing on Rogers Sportsnet and The Fan 590.
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Kevin Frankish
Kevin Frankish (born March 4, 1964) is a Toronto-area media personality. He co-hosts Breakfast Television on Citytv.
After getting a diploma in radio and television broadcasting at Canadore College, he started his career at CKNY in North Bay. He also had a nine year stint at The New VR (now CTV Two) in Barrie, Ontario. At CKVR, he began a practice of ending every broadcast with a wink, his way of saying "hi" to his wife Beth; this continues until present day.
He then moved to Citytv in 1991.
After suffering a panic attack on the air in 2006, Frankish publicly discussed his panic attacks with viewers. He also talked about it on CFRB's The Motts, hosted by Paul and Carol Mott, on September 13, 2006.
Frankish lives with his wife Beth and their four children in Barrie.
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Lance Chilton
Lance Chilton was a Canadian television journalist.
He began his career at Citytv in Toronto in 1985, hosting City Magazine and Toronto Rocks and working as an entertainment reporter for CityPulse before joining MuchMusic as a reporter and anchor for FAX in 1990. He remained with that program until 1997, when he moved to The New VR (now A Barrie/Toronto) in Barrie to anchor the station's newscasts. In the summer of 2010, Chilton left "A" News, to start a new career in the Real Estate business. He anchored his last newscast on June 15, 2010.
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Lee De Forest
Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics. He is also credited with one of the principal inventions that brought sound to motion pictures.
He was involved in several patent lawsuits and he spent a substantial part of his income from his inventions on the legal bills. He had four marriages and 25 companies, he was defrauded by business partners (as well as defrauding business partners himself), and he was once indicted for mail fraud, but was later acquitted.
He typically signed his name "Lee de Forest."
He was a charter member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, one of the two predecessors of the IEEE (the other was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers).
DeVry University was originally named DeForest Training School, after Lee De Forest, by its founder Dr. Herman A. DeVry, who was a friend and colleague of De Forest's.
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Lorne Honickman
Lorne Honickman is a lawyer and journalist in Toronto, Canada. He is currently legal analyst for and a regular panelist on The John Oakley Show on radio station CFMJ, where he also acts as guest host when the occasion arises. Previously he was a television presenter and a legal specialist on Toronto television station CP24. He was seen on a weekly one-our television show Legal Briefs on CP24 and CourtTV Canada.
Honickman has the following degrees:
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Mark Dailey
Mark Edward Dailey (August 1, 1953 – December 6, 2010) was an American-born Canadian television journalist and announcer. He was the host of 11 p.m. weeknight CityNews newscasts in Toronto, Ontario, and a prominent continuity announcer voicing interstitial program announcements on CITY-TV.
Dailey was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio to parents John and Rose-Marie (Genetta) Dailey and was one of three children (sisters Kathleen and Colleen). Dailey graduated from Ursuline High School and then studied law enforcement at Youngstown State University, in Ohio, worked as a state trooper (Ohio State Highway Patrol), and became a crime reporter for stations in Ohio (first at WNIO 1540-AM - now known as WYCL - and then ABC affiliate WYTV in the late 1960s) and at radio station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario before moving to Toronto in 1974. Prior to CityTV, Dailey worked at Q-107 and CHUM Radio. Dailey worked at Citytv for 31 years. Mark's famous line was "This is Citytv, everywhere".
As a voice actor, Dailey voiced characters in the animated series Medabots, The Ripping Friends, Beyblade, Grossology, My Dad the Rock Star, Spliced, and others. He also appeared (as a news reporter) in several Canadian films including Nicholas Campbell's Boozecan (1994), Claire's Hat, The Life Before This, and Childstar.
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Mary Garofalo
Mary Garofalo is a Multi Award Winning anchor, and investigative correspondent.
Anchor and Investigative Reporter Mary Garofalo, is a Canadian-born American television journalist.
Her first job in New York City was as the prime time News Anchor for WPIX television nightly news where she was hired to replace Donna Hanover, ex-wife of former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani. Garofalo was seen nationally in the U.S. covering stories for the syndicated news magazine show and News Corp Property A Current Affair. She worked as a reporter and anchor until the show ended in 1996. She spend six years covering national and international stories including the Persian Gulf War, Bill Clinton/White House scandal, the Branch Davidian: Waco Siege, the Susan Smith murder case and the Sicilian Mafia in Italy.
In 1996 she was hired to create and head an investigative unit for WNYW FOX 5 NEWS. As Senior Investigative Anchor and Reporter for Fox Broadcasting Company in New York City, at WNYW-Fox 5 News her tenacious reports with earned her a reputation as an "electronic pitbull" and one of the toughest reporters in the city. Her hard hitting investigations landed con artists behind bars, uncovered Political corruption and exposed countless scams. She was on the front lines covering the attack on the World Trade Towers September 11. Mary has won 7 Emmys and has been honored with dozens of nominations.
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Merella Fernandez
Merella Fernandez is a Canadian reporter and was an anchor for CityNews in Toronto.
Born in Karachi on 22 November 1973 to Goan parents Eulogio and Maura, she is the youngest of six children. She moved to Canada with her family at the age of one and settled in Toronto.
She is a graduate of Carleton University's Journalism program and began her career in television at CTV answering phone calls. She moved on to writing for CTV News and Canada AM before moving to City TV in 1998 where she began working as a writer. Soon after, she became a reporter and anchored CityNews' weekend newscasts alongside Francis D'Souza. She was then moved to CityNews at Five, weekdays at 5:00pm alongside Dwight Drummond.
On January 19, 2010, CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The 5pm news was cancelled, and Merella Fernanadez was part of a company wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air personalities.
As of April 2011, Merella return to CTV as news correspondent with CTV News Channel in Toronto.
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Mike McCourt
Mike McCourt is a TV journalist working at Citytv outlet CKAL-TV in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
From 1987 to 1992, he co-hosted the local CBWT local news program 24Hours in Winnipeg.
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Moira McLean
Moira McLean is an Australian television presenter. She is a household name in Australia[citation needed] through her regular appearances on Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton on the TEN Network which ran from 1992 until December 2005. She presented advertorials that were usually pretaped.[citation needed] McLean can be seen on home shopping channels TVSN and Expo Channel.
On the show McLean was introduced by Newton using the phrase "And now, here's Moira..." or some variation of this. The phrase is often mimicked in Australian popular culture.[
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Moses Znaimer
Moses Znaimer O.Ont (born 1942) is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.
Znaimer was born to Polish and Latvian Jewish parents who had fled the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and relocated to Kulyab in the Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Following the war his family landed in a German Displaced Persons camp, ultimately ending up in Montreal in 1948. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a B.A. in philosophy and politics (and served as president of the McGill Debating Union), and from Harvard University with an M.A. in government in the mid-1960s.
Znaimer's career in broadcasting began when he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in the mid-1960s. He became well known for his work as host of CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup, as well as co-host of CBC Television's Take 30 with Adrienne Clarkson. After being denied the opportunity to pursue his creative vision at the CBC, Znaimer quit and went into private broadcasting.
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Natasha Ramsahai
Natasha Ramasahai (born in Scarborough) is a Canadian meteorologist who currently works as the 6pm News meteorologist at CityNews in Toronto. Previously, she worked at CBLT's CBC News at Six from 2002 to 2007 and as the weekend meteorologist at CBC News Network until February 2011. She has also worked for The Weather Network before earning her masters degree in Earth and Space Science (Meteorology) from York University, and she provided weather forecasts on CBC Radio One in Toronto and at Toronto 1. She was born to Indo-Caribbean parents from Trinidad.
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. His many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were based on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael Faraday. Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.
Born in the village of Smiljan (now part of Gospić, present day Croatia), Tesla was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Because of his 1894 demonstration of short range wireless communication through radio and as the eventual victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. He pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. In the United States during this time, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture. Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices in 1891, and aspired to intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.
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Omar Sachedina
Omar Sachedina is a Canadian television journalist, currently a news anchor and reporter for the CTV Television Network.
Sachedina was born and raised in Vancouver in an Ismaili Muslim household. His family immigrated from Uganda, tracing their roots to India. He speaks Kutchi, Gujarati and French. Omar would later visit Uganda on a PBS Frontline/World fellowship to produce a web documentary on the return of Indians after the expulsion of Asians in 1972. He attended McGill University and the Columbia School of Journalism.
His work has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, The Province and CBC Radio. While a student, Sachedina was an intern at Global Television in Vancouver and Montreal, as well as CNN International in London, England. He later worked as a reporter for CTV Northern Ontario. He joined Citytv in July 2006, working on newscasts for both CityNews and CP24, where he remained until 2008. He joined CTV in January 2008 to be a co-host of the new Canada AM Western Edition. When the western edition of Canada AM was canceled, Sachedina was transferred back to the now CTV-owned CP24. As of September 2009, Sachedina is a reporter for CTV National News.
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Pam Seatle
Pam Seatle is a TV newscaster on Citytv in Toronto, Canada, on CityNews at 6 and CityNews Tonight (weekdays). Her aunt is actor Dixie Seatle, who portrayed as Mona in the 1980s series Adderly. On January 19, 2010, Pam Seatle was released by Rogers Media Television. Pam Seatle was brought back to Citytv's CityNews as a reporter a month later. On March 5, Pam Seatle was the new anchor of the weekend edition of CityNews at Six when it was brought back to air.
Seatle has a degree in French from the University of Toronto. As part of schooling, spent her third year at the Université de Provence in the south of France.
Pam is married to Canadian author Dave Eddie, whose book "Housebroken" is a chronicle of the way his life changed after meeting and marrying Pam and having children. They reside with their 3 children in Toronto.[citation needed]
When asked of her height, she replied: "I am a shade under 5'11. Most people cannot tell that and are often surprised when they meet me. It is one of the most oft-heard phrases of my career: 'You are much taller than you look on TV!'"
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Pay Chen
Pay Chen is a Canadian television host, currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she co-hosts Citytv Winnipeg's Breakfast Television.
Chen grew up in Halifax and Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia. She moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson University, later working in writing and production roles for television series produced by Treehouse TV, YTV, and TVOntario. She then switched to Toronto's OMNI Television, where she worked for seven years producing and hosting paid informational and lifestyle segments, as well as a series of fact segments.
In 2009, she joined Citytv Winnipeg, where she co-hosts Breakfast Television Winnipeg. Starting alongside Jon Ljungberg, she replaced Heather Steele, who moved elsewhere on the station; she now co-hosts with Jeremy John. She also writes a food column for Metro Winnipeg.
Her brother is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Peter Godsoe
Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe, OC OOnt (born May 2, 1938) is a Canadian businessman and former President, Chairman and Chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 2003. He is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and serves as the Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Sobeys.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of J. Gerald "Gerry" and Margaret (Cowperthwaite) Godsoe, he received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto and a MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is also a Chartered accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (post-nominal FCA). He joined the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1966 as a bank teller.
He was the Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1996 to 2000.
In 2001, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2002, he was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was made an honorary Commander of the Order of Jamaica.
He has received honorary degrees from University of King's College (1993), Concordia University (1995), University of Western Ontario (2001), and Dalhousie University (2004).
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Peter Silverman
Peter Guy Silverman, O.Ont is a Canadian broadcast journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. His television journalism career began in 1974 as a reporter for Global Television Network's first years. In 1981, he moved to Citytv where he became a reporter for that station's CityPulse news program (now known as CityNews). He was host of Silverman Helps, an ombudsman-type feature for consumers that began in 1989, and ended on 4 June 2008 when he was dismissed without cause by Citytv's owner, Rogers Media. On September 2008, Silverman joined Toronto radio station CFRB to host a Saturday morning radio show called The Peter Silverman Show.
Silverman hosted several reports on Citytv regarding Toronto optician Adam Plimmer, who was accused of selling counterfeit glasses (mainly Gucci and Oakley) and giving out eye exams despite being unqualified to do so by the College of Opticians. Opticians in Ontario are prohibited from conducting eye exams. [2] This began on 3 October 2006.
A customer purchased prescription sunglasses from Plimmer and his sunglasses were broken for no reason. In CityNews' "Silverman Helps," consumers consulted Peter Silverman to have him confirm that their glasses are counterfeit. Silverman went to Oakley and it was confirmed that Adam Plimmer's glasses were counterfeit. He went to see Plimmer and Plimmer said that Oakley is a liar. Plimmer said he doesn't refund anyone. The customer got his money credited back to his credit card.
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Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the "image dissector", the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, from 1938 to 1951.
In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor, or simply "fusor", employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Although not a practical device for generating nuclear energy, the fusor serves as a viable source of neutrons. The design of this device has been the acknowledged inspiration for other fusion approaches including the Polywell reactor concept in terms of a general approach to fusion design. Farnsworth held 165 patents, mostly in radio and television.
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Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932), a naturalized American citizen born in Quebec, Canada, was an inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. In his later career he received hundreds of patents for devices in fields such as high-powered transmitting, sonar, and television.
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in East-Bolton, Quebec, Canada, the eldest of the Reverend Joseph Elisha Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme Fessenden's four children. Joseph Fessenden was a priest of the Church of England in Canada, and through the years the family moved to a number of postings within the Province of Ontario. While growing up, Reginald was an accomplished student. In 1877, at the age of eleven, he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario for two years. At the age of fourteen, Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec granted Fessenden a mathematics mastership. At this time, Bishop's College School was a feeder school of Bishop's University and shared the same campus and buildings. In June 1878, the school had an enrollment of only 43 boys. Thus, while Fessenden was only a teenager, he was teaching mathematics to the young children at the school while simultaneously studying with the older students at Bishop's University. Total enrollment at the university for the school year 1883-84 was twenty-five students. At the age of eighteen, Fessenden left Bishop's without having been awarded a degree, even though he had "done substantially all the work necessary." (This lack of a degree may have hurt Fessenden's employment opportunities; when McGill University established an electrical engineering department, Fessenden was turned down on an application to be the chairman, in favor of an American.)
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Richard Madan
Richard Madan is a TV personality and currently a Parliamentary reporter with CTV News. Until January 2010, he was Political & Money Specialist on Citytv in Toronto. He was seen on, CityNews at 6 and CityNews Tonight (weekdays).
Born and raised in heart of the 'Peach State', Georgia, USA, Richard Madan moved to Canada as a child.
In the early years of his career, Madan served as a policy aide to various MPs on Parliament Hill (including PCs, Liberals and Canadian Alliance members). Eventually he made the leap to the "other side of the microphone", freelancing for various newspapers including Southam News chain, the Ottawa Citizen and The Hill Times.
He later made the leap into television news, reporting for Global TV in Winnipeg and then moving to the CBC to become a political reporter. Based out of the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Madan filed regional and national stories including assignments at CBC's bureau on Parliament Hill as well as live market coverage at the Toronto Stock Exchange for CBC Newsworld.
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Rob Gibson
Rob Gibson MSP (born 10 October 1945) is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent Caithness, Sutherland and Ross in the 2011 election. Gibson was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in the 2003 election for the Highlands and Islands, and was re-elected for this region in 2007.
While attending the University of Dundee he headed the SNP student wing, the Federation of Student Nationalists. He was a district councillor in Ross and Cromarty and worked as a senior secondary school teacher in Alness and Invergordon before taking early retirement in 1995.
In the Scottish Parliament, he is the Deputy Convener of the Economy, Enterprise and Tourism Committee, and a leading member of the Transport, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - all areas of importance to the economy of the north of Scotland.
His partner is the former Highlands and Islands MSP, Eleanor Scott, of the Scottish Green Party.
Gibson is also a musician and an author, and has written several books about Highland history and emigration. These include Plaids and Bandanas, The Highland Clearances Trail and Highland Cowboys.
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Roger Petersen
Roger Petersen is a Canadian television news reporter. He served as anchor on CityNews (formerly CityPulse) and Breakfast Television on Citytv Toronto) from 1999 until 2004, when he moved to Vancouver's CKVU (Citytv Vancouver) and became that station's lead male anchor with co-anchor Julie Nolin. He remained in that position until the cancellation of that newscast on July 12, 2006. Then he went back to Toronto, this time reporting and anchoring for CTV Toronto. In October 2008, he returned to (Citytv Toronto) as weekend anchor alongside with Farah Nasser. On January 19, 2010 Rogers & Citytv laid off many staff and cancelled some of the newscasts including the weekend newscasts. Petersen is now the anchor of CityNews Tonight, weeknights at 11pm. His appointment was named a few months after the death of 11pm anchor Mark Dailey.
Petersen is a graduate of Seneca College.
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Ross Hull
Ross Hull (born August 25, 1975) is a Canadian actor and television personality perhaps best known for his role as Gary, the leader of the Midnight Society, on the television series Are You Afraid of the Dark?.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hull began his acting career in 1987 with the film Nowhere to Hide. He also appeared in other shows, including Ready or Not, and then landed the role of Chris Sheppard in Student Bodies. He made an appearance on Stargate Atlantis in the episode "Suspicion".
He has travelled across Russia, India, China, and New Zealand. He enjoys personal training, hiking, skiing, rock climbing, and fitness.
In January 2005, Hull became a weather personality on Canada's The Weather Network, after graduating and getting a Bachelor's degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto.
In April 2007, Ross became a temporary reporter for the Vancouver area, replacing Oga Nwobosi while she was on maternity leave.
On December 15, 2008, Hull left The Weather Network and became a reporter for Citytv Calgary.
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Sandra Jansen
Sandra Jansen is a Canadian politician who is an elected member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Calgary-North West.
Her first experience in politics was with the Ron Ghitter campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives in 1985, alongside Alison Redford. Soon after, Jansen began a 25-year career in television broadcast journalism – first at CICT in Calgary, then in Montreal. Her career apex was in the late 1990s at CTV NewsNet/CTV News Channel in Toronto as one of their anchors. In the mid-2000s Jansen left Toronto to return to Calgary, anchoring the nightly news for Citytv Calgary.
In 2007, Jansen left journalism to obtain a master's degree in professional communications – graduating in 2009. This degree led her back into Alberta provincial politics, when in autumn 2011 Jansen was hired by incoming Premier Alison Redford to be part of Redford's communications team.
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Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, CC (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. During many of the those years as leader, his father David Lewis was simultaneously the leader of the Federal New Democratic Party. After politics, he became a broadcaster on both CBC Radio and Toronto's CityTV. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed as Canada's United Nations ambassador, by Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney. He quit in 1988 and worked at various United Nations agencies during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he served a term as the United Nations' special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. In 2003, he gained investiture into the Order of Canada.
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Tara Slone
Tara Slone (born September 7, 1973) is a Canadian rock vocalist.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Nova Scotia, Slone began pursuing classical voice training at the age of 12 with the goal of becoming an opera singer. At the age of 18, she attended Concordia University to pursue a degree in music. While there, however, she switched her aspirations to acting and rock music, and subsequently moved to Toronto.
In 1996, Slone became the lead singer of Joydrop. The band released two albums, had chart hits in Canada with "Beautiful", "Spiders" and "Sometimes Wanna Die," and was nominated for a Juno Award.
In 1998, Slone landed a recurring role in La Femme Nikita. She appeared in three episodes. In 2008, she appeared in an episode of the second season of The Border, titled "Prescriptive Measures", as an American pop star who dies early on in the episode, which sparks the main plot of the episode.
Since the breakup of Joydrop, Slone has worked on a solo album with Jordon Zadorozny. Her latest album is Just Look Pretty and Sing, which was released on March 6, 2007. Singles released include "My Little Secret", "We Were Stars" and "The Perfect Girl."
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Thalia Assuras
Thalia Assuras (born February 5, 1951) is a Canadian-born television journalist and news anchor. As of May 2011[update], she is anchor of energyNOW!, a half-hour weekly TV news-magazine and opinion program produced by the American Clean Skies Foundation.
Assuras was born in London, Ontario. to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece, after World War II. She attended London Central Secondary School, and remained in London to attend the University of Western Ontario, pursuing a bachelor of science degree. She graduated in 1980, then entered the graduate program in journalism and earned her master's degree in 1981. Twenty-one years later she commented on the impact the journalism program had on her:
Assuras has worked for CITY-TV and Global Television, including a stint as reporter and weekend anchor for CityPulse from 1985 to 1988.
From 1992 to 1993 she worked for CTV, anchoring Canada AM. She then moved to ABC, and in May 1993, joined Aaron Brown as co-anchor of World News Now. She shared that late-night anchor desk with Boyd Matson, fellow Canadian Kevin Newman, and Mark Mullen before leaving the show in January 1997.
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Tim Butcher
Tim Butcher (born 15 November 1967) is an English journalist, broadcaster and best-selling author. He is the author of Blood River and Chasing the Devil, travel books blending contemporary adventure with African history.
Butcher was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, he was educated at Rugby School, and Magdalen College, Oxford University.
Between 1990 and 2009 Butcher worked for The Daily Telegraph newspaper, holding a series of positions including leader writer, war correspondent, Africa Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent.
In 2007 he published Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, an account of his 2004 journey through DR Congo overland from Lake Tanganyika and down the Congo River, following the route of Henry Morton Stanley's 1874–77 trans-Africa expedition. The book was published by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House, and reached Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list in March 2008. Translated into six languages, Blood River was the only non-fiction title in the Richard & Judy Book Club 2008 and was shortlisted that year for a number of British writing awards including the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Book award. The book’s Polish version, Rzeka Krwi (Translated by Jakub Czernik and published in 2009 by Carta Blanca) was longlisted for the 2010 Ryszard Kapuściński Prize.
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Tonya Rouse
Tonya Rouse (born 1975) is a former TV personality and a Fitness Specialist on Citytv in Toronto. She was also the host for the show Perfect Fit Thursdays @ 5:00 PM EST on CP24. Rouse left CityTV in January 2008.
Personal Life Tonya's father name is Calvin Rouse and she has one sister and one Brother Mark Rouse and one half Brother Shane Kivell, who currently lives in Brantford, Ontario
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Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (/ˈsɜrf/; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
In the early days, Cerf was a program manager for the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding various groups to develop TCP/IP technology. When the Internet began to transition to a commercial opportunity during the late 1980s,[citation needed] Cerf moved to MCI where he was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system (MCI Mail) connected to the Internet.
Vinton Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start. Cerf waited in the wings for a year before he stepped forward to join the ICANN Board. Eventually he became the Chairman of ICANN. Cerf was elected as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery in May 2012.
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TV News Bloopers: Toronto CityTV compilation 1991
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- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
From CItyPulse - Live On Err, broadcast one time only on New Year's Eve 1991. Featuring some great outtakes from 1980s CityTV in Toronto.
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From CItyPulse - Live On Err, broadcast one time only on New Year's Eve 1991. Featuring some great outtakes from 1980s CityTV in Toronto.
- published: 01 Jun 2010
- views: 9554
- author: Scott Simpson
EXCLUSIVE #askcarlos - Kun Aguero films Carlos Tevez on Mario Balotelli, golf and United
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
CityTV sat Carlos Tevez down and put the questions posed by the fans on City's twitter account (@mcfc). Favourite goal? Super heroes? Dieting? Golf? Carlos answered them all with Sergio Kun Aguero taking the role of CityTV cameraman! All the questions are answered! Manchester City FC Summer Tour 2012 presented by Abu Dhabi Travellers Welcome www.mcfc.co.uk http www.twitter.com
http://wn.com/EXCLUSIVE_askcarlos_Kun_Aguero_films_Carlos_Tevez_on_Mario_Balotelli,_golf_and_United
CityTV sat Carlos Tevez down and put the questions posed by the fans on City's twitter account (@mcfc). Favourite goal? Super heroes? Dieting? Golf? Carlos answered them all with Sergio Kun Aguero taking the role of CityTV cameraman! All the questions are answered! Manchester City FC Summer Tour 2012 presented by Abu Dhabi Travellers Welcome www.mcfc.co.uk http www.twitter.com
- published: 13 Jul 2012
- views: 119158
- author: mcfcofficial
Celebrity Chefs City TV - Tegan & Sara
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:35
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Tegan & Sara cooking together.
http://wn.com/Celebrity_Chefs_City_TV_Tegan_Sara
INSIDE CITY 55: Dr Clichy converts a red to blue
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:55
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Manchester City players take part in the Club's annual Christmas visit to see patients at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Subscribe for FREE and never miss another CityTV video. www.youtube.com www.mcfc.co.uk http www.twitter.com
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Manchester City players take part in the Club's annual Christmas visit to see patients at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Subscribe for FREE and never miss another CityTV video. www.youtube.com www.mcfc.co.uk http www.twitter.com
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 29023
- author: mcfcofficial
EXCLUSIVE Mario Balotelli: #askmario Man City striker answers your questions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
CityTV sat down exclusively with striker Mario Balotelli to ask him a series of questions sent in by followers of Manchester City on Twitter. Follow @MCFC here: www.twitter.com Visit the official MCFC YouTube channel for more: www.youtube.com Mario Balotelli's official MCFC player profile: www.mcfc.co.uk
http://wn.com/EXCLUSIVE_Mario_Balotelli_askmario_Man_City_striker_answers_your_questions
CityTV sat down exclusively with striker Mario Balotelli to ask him a series of questions sent in by followers of Manchester City on Twitter. Follow @MCFC here: www.twitter.com Visit the official MCFC YouTube channel for more: www.youtube.com Mario Balotelli's official MCFC player profile: www.mcfc.co.uk
- published: 25 Oct 2011
- views: 590573
- author: mcfcofficial
Jazz City TV presents "The Original Rufus Harley Story"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:41
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Jazz City TV first aired Rufus Harley's performance & Interview in 1979. The interview was recorded at his home in the Germantown sectionn of PhiladelphiA. The performance was live in "PHILLY". Jazz City TV has over 300 hours of Rufus Harley on video this is very small segment of what is to come. Including his memorial services with interviews of band members and his last live performance. Rufus has been part of the Jazz City family since 1970 and we miss him dearly.
http://wn.com/Jazz_City_TV_presents_The_Original_Rufus_Harley_Story
Jazz City TV first aired Rufus Harley's performance & Interview in 1979. The interview was recorded at his home in the Germantown sectionn of PhiladelphiA. The performance was live in "PHILLY". Jazz City TV has over 300 hours of Rufus Harley on video this is very small segment of what is to come. Including his memorial services with interviews of band members and his last live performance. Rufus has been part of the Jazz City family since 1970 and we miss him dearly.
- published: 27 Mar 2008
- views: 11297
- author: 1jc
Aykroyd on Ghostbusters 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Dan Aykroyd was on Breakfast Television Vancouver talking about the possibility of shooting Ghostbusters 3, If Bill Murray is the one holding up the project, the storyline and casting. For more of the interview visit www.breakfsttelevision.ca, click Vancouver, click BT Bites, search aykroyd. Or bit.ly Interview Date: September 23, 2010. All Rights Reserved by Rogers Media
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Dan Aykroyd was on Breakfast Television Vancouver talking about the possibility of shooting Ghostbusters 3, If Bill Murray is the one holding up the project, the storyline and casting. For more of the interview visit www.breakfsttelevision.ca, click Vancouver, click BT Bites, search aykroyd. Or bit.ly Interview Date: September 23, 2010. All Rights Reserved by Rogers Media
- published: 24 Sep 2010
- views: 242099
- author: CitytvVancouver
INSIDE CITY 50: Mario meets Mario
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:45
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
This week at Manchester City: Behind the scenes around Ajax's trip to Manchester for the Champions league clash. John Guidetti sits down with CityTV as the #ask series returns, and John takes on an unexpected challenge. Yaya Toure, Javi Garcia, Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero take part in a fashion shoot for Hugo Boss (watch out for more of that), and Mario is up to mischief in training, as well as meeting his mini Mario EVERY SATURDAY - EXCLUSIVE Behind the Scenes at MCFC CLICK HERE to watch all episodes: www.youtube.com www.mcfc.co.uk http www.twitter.com
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This week at Manchester City: Behind the scenes around Ajax's trip to Manchester for the Champions league clash. John Guidetti sits down with CityTV as the #ask series returns, and John takes on an unexpected challenge. Yaya Toure, Javi Garcia, Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero take part in a fashion shoot for Hugo Boss (watch out for more of that), and Mario is up to mischief in training, as well as meeting his mini Mario EVERY SATURDAY - EXCLUSIVE Behind the Scenes at MCFC CLICK HERE to watch all episodes: www.youtube.com www.mcfc.co.uk http www.twitter.com
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 116603
- author: mcfcofficial
CunninLynguists interview pt. 1 on Primat City TV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:09
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
CunninLynguists, Hip Hop, Rap, Kno, Natti, Deacon The Villain, Primat City TV, Mista Min, Primate Rhyme, Will Rap for Food, SouthernUnderground, A Piece of Strange, Dirty Acres, Oneirology, Sloppy Seconds Volume One, Sloppy Seconds Volume Two, Strange Journey Volume One, Strange Journey Volume Two, Urban Acres Entertainment, Freshchest Records, QN5 Music, APOS Music, Freiheiz, Muffatwerk. Muffathalle, FOUR Artists, Jay-Z The White Album
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CunninLynguists, Hip Hop, Rap, Kno, Natti, Deacon The Villain, Primat City TV, Mista Min, Primate Rhyme, Will Rap for Food, SouthernUnderground, A Piece of Strange, Dirty Acres, Oneirology, Sloppy Seconds Volume One, Sloppy Seconds Volume Two, Strange Journey Volume One, Strange Journey Volume Two, Urban Acres Entertainment, Freshchest Records, QN5 Music, APOS Music, Freiheiz, Muffatwerk. Muffathalle, FOUR Artists, Jay-Z The White Album
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 5583
- author: PrimatCityTV
EZ-Robot on Calgary CityTV Breakfast Television
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:50
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
From www.ez-robot.com, DJ Sures shows Ted how he is enabling anyone to build their dream robot! It is easy to notice how EZ-Robot differs from your average company. Our focus is world-changing by continuously innovating new features for your robot creations. We're your personal R&D; Facility! The age of Personal Robotics is rapidly approaching, don't get left behind! EZ-Robot has made building robots easy and fun! Start by watching Tutorial Videos to see how easy it really is. Canadian founded by DJ Sures, EZ-Robot offers an easy, innovative and powerful platform to build your dream robots. Are you ready to experience the power and easiness of the world's most complete robot kit? EZ-Robot's innovative platform includes the hardware and software that Roboticist DJ Sures uses to personalize his robot companions. Now you can too! Easiness and Power are reasons EZ-Robot has been the driving force behind countless robots for Hobbyists, Competitions, Schools and R&D; Facilities. We are committed to maintain ongoing development by implementing new features to increase the personality of your robot companion. Our powerful kit accommodates beginner and advanced users by providing a graphical control interface, custom scripting, and a full-featured SDK. www.ez-robot.com
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From www.ez-robot.com, DJ Sures shows Ted how he is enabling anyone to build their dream robot! It is easy to notice how EZ-Robot differs from your average company. Our focus is world-changing by continuously innovating new features for your robot creations. We're your personal R&D; Facility! The age of Personal Robotics is rapidly approaching, don't get left behind! EZ-Robot has made building robots easy and fun! Start by watching Tutorial Videos to see how easy it really is. Canadian founded by DJ Sures, EZ-Robot offers an easy, innovative and powerful platform to build your dream robots. Are you ready to experience the power and easiness of the world's most complete robot kit? EZ-Robot's innovative platform includes the hardware and software that Roboticist DJ Sures uses to personalize his robot companions. Now you can too! Easiness and Power are reasons EZ-Robot has been the driving force behind countless robots for Hobbyists, Competitions, Schools and R&D; Facilities. We are committed to maintain ongoing development by implementing new features to increase the personality of your robot companion. Our powerful kit accommodates beginner and advanced users by providing a graphical control interface, custom scripting, and a full-featured SDK. www.ez-robot.com
- published: 22 Aug 2012
- views: 76749
- author: DJ Sures
Woodpigeon on CityTV - Spirehouse
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:25
- Updated: 13 Jul 2012
Named one of the top 5 bands for 2007 in Calgary, AB! My kid sister, AJ, is playing the Glockenspiel(sp?)
http://wn.com/Woodpigeon_on_CityTV_Spirehouse
Named one of the top 5 bands for 2007 in Calgary, AB! My kid sister, AJ, is playing the Glockenspiel(sp?)
- published: 31 Dec 2007
- views: 18558
- author: geographicus
Charice on CityTV Evening News Toronto
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
Charice is interviewed prior to her Eaton Centre performance and later featured on CityTV Evening News.
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Charice is interviewed prior to her Eaton Centre performance and later featured on CityTV Evening News.
- published: 07 Jun 2010
- views: 41570
- author: MegaEwolf
Townes Van Zandt - Part 1 RARE FOOTAGE! Segway City TV Productions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:38
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Produced and hosted by Larry Monroe, this is from Segway City TV Productions- public access TV in Austin, Texas. Townes Van Zandt talks and plays several of his songs. Thanks to Larry for this rare footage of Townes Van Zandt. This is part 1 of two parts.
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Produced and hosted by Larry Monroe, this is from Segway City TV Productions- public access TV in Austin, Texas. Townes Van Zandt talks and plays several of his songs. Thanks to Larry for this rare footage of Townes Van Zandt. This is part 1 of two parts.
- published: 09 Aug 2010
- views: 37254
- author: towerscope
Detroit City TV Ratt "You're In Love" Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:55
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
2009 Stars & Stripes Festival on www.DetroitCity.TV Ratt performs
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2009 Stars & Stripes Festival on www.DetroitCity.TV Ratt performs
- published: 02 Jul 2009
- views: 28169
- author: DetroitCityTV
Manchester City dressing room post match | FA Cup final - Manchester City vs Stoke 14-05-11
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:09
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
On May 14th, City ended their 35 year wait for a trophy. After the game only CityTV were allowed exclusive access to the dressing room at Wembley... Many thanks to CityTV for the exclusive footage.
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On May 14th, City ended their 35 year wait for a trophy. After the game only CityTV were allowed exclusive access to the dressing room at Wembley... Many thanks to CityTV for the exclusive footage.
- published: 16 May 2011
- views: 238215
- author: thefacup
Drop City Tv #15 Kendrick Lamar - Wanna Be Heard (Modern Artists)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
From the MAD CITY, Compton,CA comes KENDRICK LAMAR and he is back with another track from his self titled EP "Kendrick Lamar" .
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From the MAD CITY, Compton,CA comes KENDRICK LAMAR and he is back with another track from his self titled EP "Kendrick Lamar" .
- published: 07 Jun 2010
- views: 26566
- author: DROPCITY1
Sure For Men - 'Stunt City' TV Advert
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:00
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
a TV advertisement from 2006 for Sure for men deodourant in which lots of stunts are performed. Classic
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a TV advertisement from 2006 for Sure for men deodourant in which lots of stunts are performed. Classic
- published: 03 Dec 2006
- views: 22162
- author: anthill87
![Parters Teaser Trailer [HD]: David Krumholtz, Michael Urie & Brandon Routh: ENTV](http://web.archive.org./web/20121228140310im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sEfhtjS4AVk/default.jpg "Parters Teaser Trailer [HD]: David Krumholtz, Michael Urie & Brandon Routh: ENTV")
Parters Teaser Trailer [HD]: David Krumholtz, Michael Urie & Brandon Routh: ENTV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
The teaser trailer for the new CBS comedy 'Partners' based on creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, about two life-long best friends and business partners (David Krumholtz and Michael Urie) whose friendship is tested when one of them is engaged to be married. For the full story read Deadline.com www.deadline.com
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The teaser trailer for the new CBS comedy 'Partners' based on creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, about two life-long best friends and business partners (David Krumholtz and Michael Urie) whose friendship is tested when one of them is engaged to be married. For the full story read Deadline.com www.deadline.com
- published: 27 May 2012
- views: 99246
- author: ENTV
KATE TODD ~ 'Footprints On The Moon' Citytv BT
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
KATE TODD and her band perform her single 'Footprints On The Moon' off her debut CD 'Finding My Way' on Citytv Breakfast Television. 'Footprints On The Moon' the Single and 'Finding My Way' are available at www.itunes.com/katetodd
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KATE TODD and her band perform her single 'Footprints On The Moon' off her debut CD 'Finding My Way' on Citytv Breakfast Television. 'Footprints On The Moon' the Single and 'Finding My Way' are available at www.itunes.com/katetodd
- published: 10 Feb 2012
- views: 1778
- author: Kate Todd
Eric Prydz interview Identity Festival 2012 - LOVE THIS CITY TV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:48
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
It's coming, are you ready? Well you just missed it Identity Festival in Toronto Love This City TV got to have a sit down with the Main Man Eric Prydz. What an amazing interview. Check it out we are talking about The 2012 Identity Festival that kicked off on July 19 and Featured: TOP DJ's like Eric Prydz, Excision, Wolfgang Gartner, Nero, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Paul van Dyk, Hardwell, Arty, Audrey Napoleon, Bingo Players, Datsik, Doctor P, Le Castle Vania, Noisia, Showtek and so many more This was an EPIC ID Festival cant wait for the tour to come around again to CANADA and if you were there last year like these guys, you know it's a party not to be missed next year. More About Mr Eric Prydz Biography Moniker(s) / Pryda, Cirez D Eric Prydz is on a roll at the moment, without doubt leading the way. His labels Mouseville, Pryda, & Pryda Friends are positively brimming with underground club hits. Eric is now in charge of three highly respected labels whose releases are in feverish demand, consistently selling huge quantities of vinyl which is truly incredible in the markets current climate. The labels are arguably proving to be the most successful and forward thinking imprints currently existing. Each label was strictly developed to give Eric a platform to release his own productions without outside interference, simply his music on his terms. It was important for Eric to step back after his previous successes and release music without schedules and pressure. Ultimately he ...
http://wn.com/Eric_Prydz_interview_Identity_Festival_2012_LOVE_THIS_CITY_TV
It's coming, are you ready? Well you just missed it Identity Festival in Toronto Love This City TV got to have a sit down with the Main Man Eric Prydz. What an amazing interview. Check it out we are talking about The 2012 Identity Festival that kicked off on July 19 and Featured: TOP DJ's like Eric Prydz, Excision, Wolfgang Gartner, Nero, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Paul van Dyk, Hardwell, Arty, Audrey Napoleon, Bingo Players, Datsik, Doctor P, Le Castle Vania, Noisia, Showtek and so many more This was an EPIC ID Festival cant wait for the tour to come around again to CANADA and if you were there last year like these guys, you know it's a party not to be missed next year. More About Mr Eric Prydz Biography Moniker(s) / Pryda, Cirez D Eric Prydz is on a roll at the moment, without doubt leading the way. His labels Mouseville, Pryda, & Pryda Friends are positively brimming with underground club hits. Eric is now in charge of three highly respected labels whose releases are in feverish demand, consistently selling huge quantities of vinyl which is truly incredible in the markets current climate. The labels are arguably proving to be the most successful and forward thinking imprints currently existing. Each label was strictly developed to give Eric a platform to release his own productions without outside interference, simply his music on his terms. It was important for Eric to step back after his previous successes and release music without schedules and pressure. Ultimately he ...
- published: 30 Jul 2012
- views: 12575
- author: lovethiscitytv
Jackie Evancho, All I Ask of You, Toronto CityTV, 05/31/11
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- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
Second song in Jackie's appearance at Dundas Square, Toronto on May 31, 2011. This was a promotion for the CityTV airing of the new season of America's Got Talent (and next year's Canada's got Talent).
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Second song in Jackie's appearance at Dundas Square, Toronto on May 31, 2011. This was a promotion for the CityTV airing of the new season of America's Got Talent (and next year's Canada's got Talent).
- published: 31 May 2011
- views: 21991
- author: TheHopefulSkeptic
Le Castle Vania Interview - LOVE THIS CITY TV - DIGITAL DREAMS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:42
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
It's coming, are you ready? The 2012 Identity Festival kicks off July 19 and will feature: Eric Prydz, Excision, Wolfgang Gartner, Nero, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Paul van Dyk, Hardwell, Arty, Audrey Napoleon, Bingo Players, Datsik, Doctor P, Le Castle Vania, Noisia, Showtek and more Tickets are on sale now at www.IDFestival.com, and if you were there last year like these guys, you know it's a party not to be missed. Track: Le castle vania www.youtube.com Category: Music and dj's Tags: identity, identity festival, identity fest, id festival, festival id fest, edm electronic dance music, electronic house, eric prydz excision, wolfgang gartner, porter robinson nero, hardwell, paul van dyk, madeon le castle vania, arty noisia, showtek, audrey napoleon bingo players, datsik, doctor p, music, elektro Trance, Electro, Remix, Techno License: Standard YouTube License check out Love This City Tv
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It's coming, are you ready? The 2012 Identity Festival kicks off July 19 and will feature: Eric Prydz, Excision, Wolfgang Gartner, Nero, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Paul van Dyk, Hardwell, Arty, Audrey Napoleon, Bingo Players, Datsik, Doctor P, Le Castle Vania, Noisia, Showtek and more Tickets are on sale now at www.IDFestival.com, and if you were there last year like these guys, you know it's a party not to be missed. Track: Le castle vania www.youtube.com Category: Music and dj's Tags: identity, identity festival, identity fest, id festival, festival id fest, edm electronic dance music, electronic house, eric prydz excision, wolfgang gartner, porter robinson nero, hardwell, paul van dyk, madeon le castle vania, arty noisia, showtek, audrey napoleon bingo players, datsik, doctor p, music, elektro Trance, Electro, Remix, Techno License: Standard YouTube License check out Love This City Tv
- published: 24 Jul 2012
- views: 806
- author: lovethiscitytv
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves ... The Belly for Belligerence? ... The question loomed over beltway intelligentsia like an ephemeral Gordian knot ... We’re All Hawks Now ... While George W ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / K.M.Chaudary
27 Dec 2012
Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province ... He cannot contest an election until his 25th birthday. Show of strength ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra, File
26 Dec 2012
Cairo • The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamist-backed constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress ... Join the Discussion. The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cash-strapped ... The U.S ... " ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
noodls
28 Dec 2012
(Source. PFA - Professional Footballers' Association). Joe Hart has warned Manchester City they need to bounce back instantly from their Boxing Day disappointment at Sunderland if they are to defend their title ... Hart told citytv ... distributed by ... (noodl. 17072996) ....(size: 1.7Kb)
York Press
28 Dec 2012
Joe Hart has urged Manchester City to provide a response to their Boxing Day defeat. Joe Hart has warned Manchester City they need to bounce back instantly from their Boxing Day disappointment at Sunderland if they are to defend their title ... City head for Norwich on Saturday under orders from manager Roberto Mancini to become more ruthless in front of goal. Hart told citytv. "It's how football goes sometimes ... Hart said ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
The Independent
28 Dec 2012
Joe Hart has warned Manchester City they need to bounce back instantly from their Boxing Day disappointment at Sunderland if they are to defend their title. The Barclays Premier League champions slipped seven points off the pace being set by derby rivals Manchester United when they succumbed to old boy Adam Johnson's lone strike at the Stadium of Light ... He told citytv. "It's how football goes sometimes ... Hart said ... Hart said ... PA ....(size: 2.4Kb)
noodls
27 Dec 2012
From a New Year's Eve Family Dance Party, the electric Citytv ... 7 p.m ... The Citytv New Year's Bash at Olympic Plaza ... Ring in the New Year at The Citytv New Year's Bash. Performances include platinum selling artist Johnny Reid, Serena Ryder, Victoria Duffield and Massari. Mayor Naheed Nenshi will lead the crowd in the countdown to welcome 2013. The event will be broadcast nationwide on Citytv, beginning at approximately 10 p.m....(size: 3.8Kb)
The New York Times
27 Dec 2012
I’ll be posting more on those projects in January ... Much has been lost, but much remains to conserve ... ... Related Posts ... Consilience Journal (Columbia U., student-edited)Squatter CityTVE Asia PacificNextBillion.netAppropriate Infrastructure Development GroupChemists Without BordersYaleGlobal OnlineDesign that MattersPlanetizen — The Planning and Development NetworkTedBlogSustainable DesignInhabitatPrivate Sector Develoment Blog....(size: 13.8Kb)
The New York Times
27 Dec 2012
The film opens Friday in New York City and Los Angeles and then expands to more theaters in early January ... ~~~ ... Search ... Consilience Journal (Columbia U., student-edited)Squatter CityTVE Asia PacificNextBillion.netAppropriate Infrastructure Development GroupChemists Without BordersYaleGlobal OnlineDesign that MattersPlanetizen — The Planning and Development NetworkTedBlogSustainable DesignInhabitatPrivate Sector Develoment Blog ... ....(size: 13.9Kb)
The New York Times
26 Dec 2012
The organization today released this image, taken by an automated camera last year in eastern Siberia ... Related Posts ... Consilience Journal (Columbia U., student-edited)Squatter CityTVE Asia PacificNextBillion.netAppropriate Infrastructure Development GroupChemists Without BordersYaleGlobal OnlineDesign that MattersPlanetizen — The Planning and Development NetworkTedBlogSustainable DesignInhabitatPrivate Sector Develoment Blog ... ....(size: 10.0Kb)
The New York Times
26 Dec 2012
On Dot Earth and in lectures of late, I’ve offered a contemporary spelling and framing. Knowosphere ... Tippett ... Revkin ... Consilience Journal (Columbia U., student-edited)Squatter CityTVE Asia PacificNextBillion.netAppropriate Infrastructure Development GroupChemists Without BordersYaleGlobal OnlineDesign that MattersPlanetizen — The Planning and Development NetworkTedBlogSustainable DesignInhabitatPrivate Sector Develoment Blog....(size: 16.2Kb)
The New York Times
24 Dec 2012
How many people, how much stuff?. The human species is in fast forward right now ... That makes you say whoa ... Related Posts ... Consilience Journal (Columbia U., student-edited)Squatter CityTVE Asia PacificNextBillion.netAppropriate Infrastructure Development GroupChemists Without BordersYaleGlobal OnlineDesign that MattersPlanetizen — The Planning and Development NetworkTedBlogSustainable DesignInhabitatPrivate Sector Develoment Blog ... ....(size: 13.0Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
20 Dec 2012
TORONTO -- Citytv has moved a step closer to becoming a virtual national Canadian network after it received regulatory approval Thursday to acquire Montreal ethnic TV station CJNT from indie broadcaster Channel Zero.our editor recommends. Canada's Citytv Network Expands into Quebec and Western Canada. Canada's Citytv Picks Up Warner Bros.' 'Mike & Molly'....(size: 3.8Kb)
Canada Newswire
20 Dec 2012
- New channel to launch in 2013, securing expanded national platform for Citytv's original and acquired programming - ... The deal is expected to close in early 2013, with Citytv Montreal launching later that year ... In summer 2012, Citytv launched Citytv Saskatchewan and Citytv programming became available long-term in three key markets in Western Canada - Kamloops, B.C., Prince George, B.C., and Medicine Hat, AB....(size: 4.0Kb)
Canada Newswire
20 Dec 2012
OTTAWA-GATINEAU, Dec. 20, 2012 /CNW/ - Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved a new multilingual television station to be called International Channel/Canal International (ICI) ... It will devote 14 hours per week to local ethnic programs. CJNT will increase the number of Citytv stations, which will enable Rogers to broaden its national coverage ... Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-696 (ICI) ... Tel.....(size: 2.4Kb)
noodls
20 Dec 2012
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This article is about the Canadian Citytv brand. Individual stations (such as Toronto's CITY-DT) are listed according to their call signs. For other uses, see Citytv (disambiguation).
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| Type | Broadcast television system |
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| Country | Canada |
| Availability | Semi-national (urban Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, much of B.C. and Manitoba); parts of the northern U.S. via digital cable |
| Founded | by Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd. (Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer, Jerry Grafstein and Edgar Cowan, among others) |
| Slogan | Everywhere! |
| Owner | Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. |
| Key people | Scott Moore - President of Broadcasting, Rogers Media |
| Launch date | September 28, 1972 (independent Toronto station) July 22, 2002 (launch of the Citytv system) |
| Official website | citytv.com |
Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division. The system currently consists of five owned and operated television stations located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, as well as four independently owned affiliates serving Saskatchewan as well as smaller cities in Alberta and British Columbia. It is generally considered part of the second tier of Canadian English-language broadcast television services, alongside CTV Two. The Citytv brand has also been licensed to television stations outside of Canada.
Citytv stations originally had an intensely local format based on newscasts aimed at younger viewers, nightly movies, and music and cultural programming. Moses Znaimer, who developed the original format, once described the system's philosophy by saying, "It's not the show, it's the flow". Since the late 2000s, and particularly since its acquisition by Rogers, Citytv has moved towards a series-based primetime schedule much like its competitors, albeit one still focused on younger demographics.
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History[link]
See also: 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment
The original Citytv station, granted callsign CITY-TV by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), was founded in Toronto in 1972 and began broadcasting for the first time on September 28 under the ownership of Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd; CHUM Limited acquired the station in 1981. Broadcasting on UHF channel 79 through its first decade, the station moved to channel 57 in 1983, until moving to UHF 44 with the digital switchover. In 1987, the station moved its headquarters from the former Electric Circus night club at 99 Queen Street East to 299 Queen Street West, formerly known as the Ryerson Press Building (then known as the CHUM-City Building); one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city. On September 8, 2009, Citytv moved to its current location at Yonge-Dundas Square at 33 Dundas Street East.[1]
Citytv gained a second station in Vancouver when CHUM bought CKVU from Canwest Global in 2001. The station became Citytv Vancouver on July 22, 2002. Prior to CHUM's acquisition of CKVU, some Citytv programming was syndicated to KVOS in nearby Bellingham, Washington.
In 2004, CHUM bought Craig Media Inc., parent of the A-Channel system in Manitoba and Alberta. The Craig-owned A-Channel stations were relaunched as Citytv on August 2, 2005; the same date when CHUM's NewNet (The New VR, The New WI, the New PL, etc.) stations were rebranded under the A-Channel banner.
On July 12, 2006, Citytv parent CHUM Limited announced plans to sell its broadcasting assets to CTV parent CTVglobemedia. CTVgm initially intended to retain CHUM's Citytv system while divesting CHUM's A-Channel stations and Access Alberta in order for the CRTC to approve the acquisition.[2] On the same day that the takeover was announced, Citytv canceled its supper hour, late night, and weekend newscasts at its local Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg stations, laying off hundreds of news department staff.
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Citytv news vehicle in Edmonton
In October 2006, Citytv launched a daily national newscast, CityNews International. It is produced in Toronto for broadcast on the western Canadian stations, as well as on CHUM's Toronto news channel CP24. The Edmonton and Calgary stations also began broadcasting a daily 30-minute magazine show, Your City, instead of a full-fledged newscast. The Vancouver news operation, which had operated for 30 years under various owners and station identities, was not maintained aside from BT.
In the same month, Citytv Toronto began broadcasting local news in high-definition, becoming the first television station in Canada to do so.
On June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV takeover of CHUM. However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTV divesting itself of Citytv, because they already have CTV O&O stations serving the very same cities (CFTO-TV Toronto, CIVT-TV Vancouver, CFCN-TV Calgary, CFRN-TV Edmonton, and CKY-TV Winnipeg) as it would have exceeded the CRTC's concentration of media ownership limits. As a result, CTV announced on June 11, 2007, that it would retain the A-Channel stations, and sell off the Citytv stations to Rogers Communications for $375 million.[3][4] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on September 28 and was completed on October 31, 2007.
The Jim Pattison Group announced in July 2009 that its three television stations in western Canada, formerly affiliated with E!, would broadcast the entire Citytv program lineup starting on September 1, 2009.[5] As these stations are not located in major urban centres, they do not carry Citytv branding; instead, they opted to keep the same names and logos used as affiliates of the E! system. Moreover while the Pattison-owned Citytv affiliates produce local newscasts, they do not produce their own versions of Breakfast Television nor title their midday and evening newscasts under the CityNews brand like the Citytv O&Os do. The agreement was originally slated to run through August 2012, however Rogers signed a long-term affiliation renewal agreement on May 3, 2012, allowing the Pattison stations to carry 90% of primetime programming and the majority of morning and daytime programming from the programming grid of CKVU-DT (including simulcasts of the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television; however unlike CKVU, the Pattison stations will continue to produce midday and evening local newscasts).[6]
On December 6, 2010, CityNews Tonight Toronto anchor/Citytv continuity voice-over, Mark Dailey died after a long battle with cancer.[7]
On December 20, 2011, Bluepoint Investment Corporation announced an affiliation agreement with Rogers Communications to air Citytv programming on the Saskatchewan Communications Network from 3 p.m.-6 a.m. CT daily, as of January 2, 2012. This block of programming will follow the national program grid of Citytv and be known on-air as Citytv on SCN; the SCN affiliation agreement gave the Citytv system affiliations in all provinces west of Quebec and south of the federal territories of Northern Canada.[8] On January 17, 2012, Rogers announced its intent to acquire SCN outright from Bluepoint Investment Corporation, pending approval by the CRTC. Rogers plans to rename the channel as Citytv Saskatchewan, invest into improving its infrastructure, and also launch a high definition feed for SCN.[9]
On May 3, 2012, Rogers announced its intent to acquire Montreal multicultural station CJNT-DT from Toronto-based Channel Zero and announced an affiliation agreement with the station, effective June 4, 2012 (like the Jim Pattison Citytv affiliates, CJNT was formerly affiliated with the CH / E! system prior to its shutdown). With the CJNT affiliation agreement, Citytv will have affiliations in all provinces west of Atlantic Canada and the first affiliated station located east of the Greater Toronto Area.[10]
Programming[link]
Main article: List of programs broadcast by Citytv
Citytv is well known for its unconventional approach to news and local programming. There is no news desk (anchors read the news standing up, or on stools), and cameras are sometimes hand-held. Citytv also pioneered the concept of videojournalism, where reporters often carry their own cameras and report and videotape their own stories. Citytv calls its videojournalists "videographers", but unlike many American television markets that try to conceal the fact that reporters are so-called "one-man bands", Citytv embraced the use of video journalism by highlighting the use of technology; Citytv videographers often carry a second home video camera to record images of them videotaping on the scene. The low-grade video is then incorporated into the final story to show viewers how the story was recorded.
At its peak, Citytv Toronto produced more local programs than any other television station in Canada, such as Speakers' Corner, CityLine and was the original home of FashionTelevision, SexTV, and MediaTelevision. Citytv also airs The Quon Dynasty, a reality restaurant show based in Edmonton, AB. Many of these series were not strictly focused on Toronto – FT, for instance, consists largely of foreign runway footage – and are easily syndicated to other CHUM outlets. The latter three shows are owned by CTVglobemedia as a result of its takeover of CHUM and subsequent divesting of the Citytv stations.
The station also attracted attention and controversy by airing Baby Blue Movies, or soft-core pornography, on Friday nights after midnight. Although this programming strategy was discontinued in the 1980s, it was reinstated on CITY and CKVU for short time in the early 2000s.
This, along with the 'hide away' place on the UHF dial formed the basis of fictional station "CIVIC TV" (Channel 83 Cable 12) in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, which is set in Toronto.
As well, CITY was one of the first television stations in Canada to implement a diversity policy in hiring its on-air staff, actively seeking out people of colour, people with disabilities, and other minority groups to work as on-air journalists. Znaimer originally described the policy as wanting the station to "look like Toronto".
Beginning in 1983, CITY began to produce a New Year's Eve special live from Nathan Phillips Square in Downtown Toronto. Currently known as the Citytv New Year's Eve Bash, the yearly concert special will expand to include a second event in Calgary, Alberta for its 2012 edition.
In 2008, Citytv dropped its Great Movies block and replaced it with either reruns, reality shows or infomercials.
News[link]
Main article: CityNews
Citytv Toronto's CityNews, formerly known as CityPulse, had developed a large following, but ratings have since been steadily declining.[citation needed] Other stations around the world have tried to imitate its format to varying degrees of success. However, Citytv itself was unsuccessful in expanding its audience to other markets, as evidenced by the recent cancellation of the other stations' traditional newscasts. Flagship station CITY-TV, along with Jim Pattison Group-owned affiliates CFJC-TV, CKPG-TV and CHAT-TV are currently the only Citytv stations producing midday or evening newscasts (though the Pattison stations brand by their individual callsigns, instead of branding under the Citytv name and do now the CityNews title for their weekday newscasts), Citytv's four other owned-and-operated broadcast stations only produce localized versions of the morning program franchise Breakfast Television.
Effects of the 2009–2010 economic crisis[link]
Due to the ongoing structural problems facing the conventional television sector in Canada and the global economic crisis, Rogers Media announced cost-cutting measures at the Citytv stations on January 19, 2010, which included massive layoffs and the cancellation of the following newscasts:
- CityNews at Noon in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto
- Lunch Television in Vancouver
- Your City in Calgary and Edmonton which was an evening replacement for previous CityNews programming that was cancelled in 2006.
- The CityNews List in Vancouver, a comedic take on the news in Vancouver
- CityOnline, CityNews at Five and all weekend news programming in Toronto
- Citytv's national and international newscast, CityNews International
Citytv continues to produce Breakfast Television and CityLine for all markets, and CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight in Toronto only (the evening newscasts in Toronto excluded weekend broadcasts until March 2011; the 5 p.m. newscast, meanwhile, would return in September 2011). In total, 60 Citytv employees (including long-time Toronto news anchor Anne Mroczkowski) have been laid off across Canada.[11][12][13]
Sports[link]
Sports broadcasts on the Citytv stations have been sparse over the years. The predominant sports property in recent years has been National Football League football, but even this has been quite sporadic.
Craig Media (including the now-Citytv stations in Winnipeg and Alberta) owned the rights to Monday Night Football in the early 2000s, and these rights moved to Citytv for MNF's final season on ABC in 2005, before being moved again to TSN in 2006.
With the sale to Rogers, CKVU carried 4:00 p.m. ET games during the 2007 season (as did OMNI.2 in Toronto), under sublicence from Rogers Sportsnet. For the 2008 season, all Citytv stations now carry 4:00 games. Sportsnet carries a different game than the game broadcast by Citytv. CITY also airs selected Buffalo Bills preseason games (including those held at the Rogers Centre).
The Citytv station in Vancouver carried two regional NHL games during the 2009-10 season. The first telecast was on November 5, 2009 when CKVU televised the Vancouver Canucks hockey game due to a potential scheduling conflict on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific involving game 7 of the 2009 World Series. The second telecast was on February 14, 2010 due to another conflict on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific involving the 2010 Olympics.
The Citytv stations in Alberta (while still branded "A-Channel") carried some regional NHL games during their first few years. The most recent hockey broadcast was on December 3, 2009, when both CKEM and CKAL televised the Edmonton Oilers due to a conflict on Rogers Sportsnet West involving an NFL game. The previous game was on October 30, 2008, when only CKAL broadcast a Calgary Flames hockey game due to a scheduling conflict on Rogers Sportsnet West involving the 2008 World Series.
Citytv Toronto had also broadcast some regular-season basketball games during the inaugural season of the Toronto Raptors. On March 2, 2008, Citytv Toronto aired its first known baseball game, a Toronto Blue Jays spring training game, against the Cincinnati Reds. Citytv and the Toronto Blue Jays are both owned by Rogers.
Citytv HD[link]
In 2003, CHUM Limited launched an HD simulcast of its Toronto station CITY-TV. In October 2006, Citytv installed a new control room, becoming one of the first fully HD broadcasters in Canada. On March 2, 2010 CKVU-TV in Vancouver launched its HD simulcast. CKEM-DT in Edmonton began testing on May 26, 2010 and began regular HD broadcasting on June 29, 2010. CITY-DT-3 in Ottawa began testing on June 12, 2010 and regular broadcasting on June 18, 2010. CKAL-DT began testing on August 31, 2010.
Citytv HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free via DTT using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new TVs) on the following channels:
- Calgary: 49 (5.1)
- Edmonton: 17 (51.1)
- Lethbridge: 46 (2.1)
- Toronto: 53 (57.1)
- Ottawa: 17 (65.1)
- Vancouver: 47 (10.1)
- Winnipeg: 13 (13.1)
CityNews Channel[link]
Main article: CityNews Channel
Shortly after Rogers' takeover of the Citytv stations was complete, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission published an application under which Rogers would have acquired 20% of CP24, which was sold to CTVglobemedia as part of its $1.4 billion takeover offer of CHUM Limited in 2007.[14] It is not clear from the available evidence whether this was directly tied to the sale of CHUM as opposed to any pre-existing rights Rogers may have had. In any event, the application was withdrawn prior to the scheduled hearing.[15]
In July 2008, Rogers filed a new application with the CRTC to launch a separate 24-hour news station to be known as "CityNews Toronto". That application was approved by the CRTC on December 10 of that year. The new channel was initially slated to hit the airwaves in late 2009, however it was delayed due to the reconstruction and economic terms.[16]
On May 30, 2011 Rogers announced plans to launch CityNews Channel in the fall of that year, with plans to incorporate elements of other Rogers-owned news properties including 680 News and Maclean's, in addition to Citytv Toronto.[17] The channel officially launched on October 3, 2011 on Rogers Cable systems in the Toronto and Ottawa markets.
Citytv stations[link]
Individual stations are normally branded on-air as "Citytv"; the location may be added if disambiguation is necessary.
Owned-and-operated stations[link]
Note:
- 1) Italicized channel numbers indicate a digital channel allocated for future use by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
| City of license/market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Year of affiliation |
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| Calgary, Alberta | CKAL-DT | 5.1 (49) | 2005 |
| Edmonton, Alberta | CKEM-DT | 51.1 (17) | 2005 |
| Toronto, Ontario | CITY-DT | 57.1 (44) | 2002 |
| Vancouver, British Columbia | CKVU-DT | 10.1 (33) | 2002 |
| Portage la Prairie/Winnipeg, Manitoba | CHMI-DT | 13.1 (13) | 2005 |
Affiliates[link]
Terrestrial[link]
Note:
- †) Rogers Media is currently in the process of acquiring CJNT, pending CRTC approval. The station will become a Citytv affiliate with some programming from Omni Television (in order to fulfill CJNT's license requirements as a multicultural station) starting June 4, 2012 under Channel Zero ownership prior to the close of purchase.
| City of license/market | Station | Analog/virtual channel |
Digital RF channel1 |
Year of affiliation |
Owner |
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| Kamloops, British Columbia | CFJC-TV | 4 | 43 | 2009 | Jim Pattison Group |
| Medicine Hat, Alberta | CHAT-TV | 6 | 40 | 2009 | |
| Montreal, Quebec | CJNT-DT | 62.1 | 49 | 2012† | Channel Zero |
| Prince George, British Columbia | CKPG-TV | 2 | 34 | 2009 | Jim Pattison Group |
Cable and satellite-only[link]
- Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Communications Network (since January 2, 2012) - carried province-wide in Saskatchewan on cable television. Currently owned by Bluepoint Investment Corporation and licensed as an educational television service for the province of Saskatchewan, educational programming airs daily from 6 a.m.-2:59 p.m. CT. Rogers Media is purchasing SCN from Bluepoint, with the intent to rebrand the channel as Citytv Saskatchewan during all program hours and launch a high definition simulcast feed.[9]
Past output deals[link]
Prior to 1997, CHUM owned two television outlets in Atlantic Canada: the ATV system of CTV affiliates, and cable-only channel ASN. Many Citytv programs were aired on either ATV or ASN during this period. Both ATV and ASN were acquired by Baton Broadcasting (now CTVglobemedia) in 1997; ASN continued to air much of the Citytv schedule until it became part of the A (now CTV Two) television system in 2008.
In the past, local rights to individual Citytv programs were sold to stations outside of the Toronto station's coverage area. In Vancouver, programs were split between KVOS in Bellingham, Washington, which is close to Vancouver, and CTV-owned CIVT, during the 1990s and early 2000s when Citytv did not have a station in Vancouver. The WIC stations in Alberta (including CITV and CICT) bought provincial rights to some Citytv programs prior to the launch of CKAL and CKEM in 1997.
International[link]
The Citytv brand has been licensed to local television stations in Bogotá, Colombia (Citytv Bogotá) and Barcelona, Spain (Citytv Barcelona). The latter station's licence agreement expired in 2006, and the station was renamed TD8.
Additionally, Toronto's CITY-TV is broadcast on a number of cable TV systems in the Caribbean. In Barbados, Citytv is on channel 507 of the terrestrial subscription service known as Multi-Choice TV.
In March 2006, CHUM signed an agreement with WRUA channel 34 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico to establish a Citytv franchise on that channel—a first in the United States.[18] Rogers Media discontinued the licensing for WRUA, and the station now serves as a translator for WECN in Naranjito.
Current presenters[link]
List includes presenters from all Citytv stations and affiliates.
Past presenters[link]Toronto
Elsewhere
See also[link]References[link]
External links[link]
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Mario Barwuah Balotelli[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1990-08-12) 12 August 1990 (age 21)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Palermo, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[3] | ||
| Playing position | Striker[2] | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Manchester City | ||
| Number | 45 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001–2005 | Lumezzane | ||
| 2006–2007 | Internazionale | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2005–2006 | Lumezzane | 2 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Internazionale | 59 | (20) |
| 2010– | Manchester City | 40 | (19) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2010 | Italy U21 | 16 | (6) |
| 2010– | Italy | 8 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Mario Barwuah Balotelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmaːrjo baloˈtɛlli]; born 12 August 1990) is an Italian footballer of Ghanaian descent who plays as a striker for Manchester City and the Italian national team.[4][5] He started his professional football career at Lumezzane and played for the first team twice before having an unsuccessful trial at FC Barcelona,[6] and subsequently joining Internazionale in 2007. Inter manager Roberto Mancini brought Balotelli into the first team, but when Mancini left, Balotelli's disciplinary record fell away. He had a strained relationship with new head coach José Mourinho and was suspended from Inter's first team in January 2009 after a number of disciplinary problems.
His problems deepened in March 2010 when he came under heavy criticism by Inter fans after he appeared on the Italian TV show Striscia la notizia, wearing an A.C. Milan jersey. This damaged the prospect of him having a long career at Inter, but he did make several appearances after that. With doubts over his career at Inter, former coach Roberto Mancini at Manchester City gave Balotelli a fresh chance at a new club. He joined Manchester City in August 2010, where his performances and off-field activities have continued to be controversial and enigmatic. Balotelli earned his first cap for the Italian national team on 10 August 2010, in a friendly match against the Côte d'Ivoire thus making him the first black player to play for the Italian national football team.
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Early life[link]
Mario Balotelli was born in Palermo, Sicily, to Ghanaian immigrants Thomas and Rose Barwuah. The family moved to Bagnolo Mella in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, shortly after he was born.[7] As an infant, he had life-threatening complications with his intestines which led to a series of operations, although his condition had improved by 1992. Mario's health problems and the family's cramped living conditions meant the Barwuahs decided to ask for the help of social services who recommended that he be fostered.[7] In 1993, the Barwuah family agreed to entrust the three-year-old boy to Francesco and Silvia Balotelli,[7] with the legal move formalized by the Court of Brescia.[8] When Mario Balotelli became famous, his biological parents asked for his return. He later accused them of "glory hunting", stating that they only wanted him back because of the prominence he had gained.[9] According to Law 91 of 5 February 1992,[10] Balotelli had to wait until his 18th birthday to request Italian citizenship, as the Balotellis had not adopted him, and he officially gained citizenship on 13 August 2008.[11]
He has three biological siblings, Abigail, Enoch and Angel. [12] Enoch Barwuah, two years his junior, had a trial at English Premier League side Stoke City in December 2011.[13]
Club career[link]
Lumezzane[link]
Balotelli began his career with Lumezzane. At the age of 15 he was promoted to the first team, making his first team debut in a Serie C1 league match against Padova.[14]
Internazionale[link]
Having had an unsuccessful trial with FC Barcelona at the age of 15,[15] Balotelli was signed by F.C. Internazionale Milano in 2006 on loan with a pre-set price of €150,000 to co-own the player.[16] In June 2007 Inter excised the option and purchased another half for additional €190,000.[16] He made his first team and Serie A debut on 16 December 2007 replacing David Suazo in a 2–0 win against Cagliari.[17] Three days later he featured in the starting lineup in a Coppa Italia match against Reggina, scoring two goals in a 4–1 win.[18] Balotelli gained national attention after he scored two goals against Juventus in the return leg of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals, being instrumental in a 3–2 away win for Inter.[19] His first Serie A goal then came in April 2008 in a 2–0 away win against Atalanta.[20] Inter went on to win the 2007–08 Serie A.[21] Balotelli was a substitute in the 2008 Supercoppa Italiana final against A.S. Roma. He came on as a replacement for Luís Figo, scoring in the 83rd minute. Inter went on to win the final 6–5 on penalties after the match ended 2–2.
In November 2008 he scored his first Champions League goal in a 3–3 draw against Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta, becoming the youngest Inter player (at 18 years and 85 days) to score in the Champions League. This beat the previous record set by Obafemi Martins at 18 years and 145 days.[22] In April 2009 Balotelli scored Inter's goal in a 1–1 draw with Juventus and was racially abused by Juventus fans throughout the game, including chants such as "Black Italians do not exist". This led to Massimo Moratti saying that he would have pulled the team off the pitch if he had been present.[23] The racist chants were also condemned by Juventus chairman Giovanni Cobolli Gigli and Juventus were given a one game home-fan ban because of the incident.[24] Inter won Serie A for the fourth time in a row.[25]
In his second season with Inter, Balotelli had a number of disciplinary problems, most notably involving head coach José Mourinho who excluded him from the first team in the second half of January 2009. Earlier that season Mourinho had accused Balotelli of showing a lack of effort in training[26] stating "as far as I'm concerned, a young boy like him cannot allow himself to train less than people like Figo, Córdoba, and Zanetti."[27] Balotelli continued to be the subject of racist chants throughout the season, becoming the focus of Juventus fans even during games not involving Inter, leading to Juventus being fined twice and the club ultimately punished with a partial stadium closure.[28]
Balotelli's disciplinary problems, and his difficult relationship with Mourinho, continued in the 2009–10 season. In November Inter drew 1–1 against Roma and Mourinho criticized his players, even going as far as saying that Balotelli "came close to a zero rating".[29] The young striker again incurred the wrath of Juve (Juventus) fans in the heated Derby d'Italia away encounter with Juventus on 5 December 2009 which Inter lost 2–1. When he was elbowed by Juve midfielder Felipe Melo in the shoulder he fell on the pitch clutching his face and was promptly booked, while Melo was sent off for a second yellow card. The incident sparked a fiery altercation between teammate Thiago Motta and Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.[30][31] The tension between player and manager reached its peak on the eve of the UEFA Champions League second leg against Chelsea after the young striker was not called-up, following an altercation with Mourinho.[32] Despite Inter's 1–0 win at Stamford Bridge, London, Balotelli was criticized by several senior players including captain Javier Zanetti[33] and veteran defender Marco Materazzi as well as his own agent.[34] In March he came under heavy criticism from fans after he publicly sported an A.C. Milan (Inter's cross-town rivals) jersey on the Italian show Striscia la Notizia.[35]
Balotelli released a statement of apology in Inter Milan's official website that read:
| “ | "I am sorry for the situation that has been created recently. I am the first person who has suffered because I adore football and I want to play, and now I am waiting in silence so I can return to being useful to my team. I want to put the past behind me, look to the future and concentrate on the upcoming commitments and make myself ready."
Mario Balotelli[36] |
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After a spell out of the team, Balotelli was recalled for the match against Bologna and he marked his return with a goal in their 3–0 win.[37] He soon caused controversy again in the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona on 20 April as he threw his jersey on the ground after the final whistle, in response to Inter fans who had booed him for his poor performance.[38] This led to an attempt by a small group of supporters to physically attack Balotelli after the end of the game. His behaviour brought disapproval from fans, team-mates and football pundits.[39]
Manchester City[link]
2010–11[link]
After weeks of speculation Inter reached an agreement for Balotelli's transfer to Manchester City on 12 August 2010, for €22 million. for which Inter made a profit of €21.856 million.[40][41] At Manchester City Balotelli reunited with his former boss, Roberto Mancini.[42] who said, "his style of play will suit the Premier League, and because he is still so young there is a big chance for him to improve. He is a strong and exciting player, and City fans will enjoy watching him".[43]
On 19 August 2010 Balotelli came on as a substitute to score in his debut against Politehnica Timişoara in a 1–0 away win in the Europa League.[44] Unfortunately he injured the lateral meniscus in his right knee in the match and on 8 September he underwent surgery that saw him sidelined until October.[45] Balotelli eventually made his Premier League debut on 24 October as a substitute in a 3–0 home defeat to Arsenal[46] and made his full debut on 30 October in a 2–1 away defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers.[47] Balotelli scored his first and second Premier League goals on 7 November in a 2–0 away win to West Brom.[48] In the same game Balotelli received a red card for violent conduct as the result of a clash with Youssuf Mulumbu, which his manager Roberto Mancini described as unfair.[49] Balotelli scored the first two of City's three goals in the 3–0 win over FC Red Bull Salzburg in Manchester City's Europa League group stage match.[50]
On 21 December 2010 Balotelli won the Golden Boy Award, saying that only one of the past winners was slightly better than he was – Lionel Messi. He also claimed not to know of Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, the player he narrowly beat to the award.[51] On 28 December 2010 Balotelli scored his first Premier League hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Aston Villa.[52] Despite this Balotelli still had problems and in March 2011 he was sent off in the second-leg of Manchester City's Europa League tie with Dynamo Kiev.[53] On 14 May 2011 Balotelli was man of the match in the 2011 FA Cup Final as Manchester City defeated Stoke City 1–0 to win their first trophy in thirty-five years.[54]
2011–12[link]
Balotelli scored his first goal of the 2011–12 campaign in a 2–0 Carling Cup win against Birmingham City. He followed this up with the opening goal against Everton three days later. On 1 October 2011 he scored his third goal in as many games in a 4–0 win away to Blackburn Rovers. Balotelli scored the opening two goals and forced the dismissal of Jonny Evans as City beat Manchester United 6–1 at Old Trafford on 23 October 2011.[55] Balotelli made his Champions League debut for Man City on 2 November 2011, in the return match against Villarreal. He scored from the penalty spot on the stroke of half time during the match, scoring his first CL goal for them in the process and his seventh goal overall in the season.[56] On November 27, Balotelli came on as a 65th minute substitute against Liverpool, and was sent off after receiving two yellow cards.[57] Balotelli scored using his right shoulder in City's 5–1 win over Norwich on 3 December.[58] He put City 1–0 up against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge after just two minutes on 12 December, although Chelsea rallied to win 2–1.[59]
On 22 January 2012, Balotelli came on as a substitute during a match against Tottenham Hotspur. He appeared to stamp on Scott Parker during the match against Tottenham. He was already booked but did not get a second yellow from referee Howard Webb who did not see the incident.[60] Balotelli subsequently scored his first goal of 2012 , a injury-time penalty which secured a 3–2 win for City.[61] He was charged for violent conduct for the kick against Scott Parker and was suspended for four matches, three for violent conduct and one for his second sending off.[60] On 25 February, he scored his 10th league goal of the season in a 3–0 home win against Blackburn Rovers.[62] He scored again the following game this time in a 2–0 win against Bolton.[63] On 31 March, Balotelli scored twice as City drew 3–3 at home to Sunderland. However, Balotelli was criticised for his actions in the match, after squabbling with Aleksandar Kolarov over a free kick. Roberto Mancini claimed after the game he had considered substituting Balotelli just five minutes into the match.[64] On 8 April 2012, Balotelli received his fourth red card, after earning his second yellow card during the match both against Bacary Sagna, during City's 1–0 loss to Arsenal in April 2012, after "a dangerous, chaotic, birdbrain performance".[65] After the Arsenal match, Mancini appeared to have finally lost his patience with Balotelli, suggesting that Balotelli would not play any part in the remainder of City's season and be sold by the club.[66] Despite this, Balotelli did make an appearance as a late substitute in the last game of the season, a title-deciding match against Queens Park Rangers. Balotelli provided the assist that allowed Sergio Aguero to score the 94th-minute winner that won City their first league title since 1968.
International career[link]
Balotelli was unable to answer call-ups to the Italian national under-15 and under-17 teams as he was still considered to be a Ghanaian immigrant.[67]
On 7 August 2007, five days before his 17th birthday, Balotelli received his first senior International call-up for Ghana from their coach Claude Le Roy for a friendly against Senegal at the New Den stadium in London, England, on 21 August 2007.[68] He declined the offer citing once again his willingness to play for Italy when he became eligible.[69] He also stated his willingness to represent Italy at international level once he acquired an Italian passport.[70]
Italy U-21 coach Pierluigi Casiraghi stated his intention to call up Balotelli once he obtained Italian citizenship. On 13 August 2008 Balotelli was finally given Italian citizenship[71] and Casiraghi called him to join the Italy national under-21 football team "Azzurrini" on 29 August for the matches against Greece and Croatia.[72] In his debut on 5 September 2008 he scored his first international goal in a 1–1 draw with the Greek U-21's.
Balotelli was named in the final 23-man squad for the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championships and scored the opening goal against the hosts Sweden in the 23rd minute. Barely 15 minutes later he was shown a red card for retaliating against a Swedish midfielder Pontus Wernbloom.[73]
Balotelli received his first call-up for the Italian senior team, as part of the squad announced by new head coach Cesare Prandelli, for a friendly match against Côte d'Ivoire - the first match after the 2010 World Cup. With the match, he became the first Black player to play with the Italian national team.[74] On 10 August 2010, two days before his 20th birthday, he made his debut in that match partnering Cassano and Amauri in a 0–1 loss.[75] On 11 November 2011, Balotelli scored his first senior international goal in a 2–0 win against Poland at Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw, Poland.[76]
Style of play[link]
Balotelli is credited with pace, a forceful shot and technical ability, but criticised for a petulant attitude.[77] He is often nicknamed mario the magician because of his skill with the ball and "Super Mario"[78][79] and can play anywhere along the front line. Balotelli is also a set-piece specialist[citation needed] and is regarded as a promising but difficult young striker.[citation needed]
Personality and reputation[link]
"The problem is because of his age, he can make some mistakes. He's Mario. He's crazy – but I love him because he's a good guy."
"I told him, if you played with me 10 years ago I would give you every day maybe one punch in your head. There are different ways to help a guy like Mario. I don't speak with him every day, otherwise I would need a psychologist, but I speak with him because I don't want him to lose his quality. If Mario is not one of the best players in the world it will be his fault, because he has everything. Mario can be one of the top players in Europe. I don't want him to lose his talent."
Mancini in April 2012[81]
"I've finished my words for him. I've finished. He is not a bad guy and a fantastic player but I'm very sorry for him as he continues to lose his talent and his quality. I don't have any words for his behaviour. I hope for him he can understand he is in a bad way for his future and I really hope that he can change his behaviour in the future. But I'm finished."
Balotelli has been given a reputation by the media for being a difficult character and taking part in questionable activities. Manchester City supporters have a chant with lyrics referring to his behaviour[82], while musician Tinchy Stryder recorded a song in Balotelli's honour.[83]
Within days of joining Manchester City, Balotelli was involved in a car crash.[84] It was reported that Balotelli was carrying £5000 cash at the time - and that when a police officer asked why he had such a large sum of cash Balotelli replied: "Because I am rich".[85] Off-field activities involving Balotelli have included driving into a women's prison in Italy[86] and throwing darts at a youth team player during a training ground 'prank'.[87] Balotelli has also been subjected to tabloid rumours about him confronting a bully in a school after querying why a young City fan was not at school[88] and giving £1000 to a homeless man on the streets of Manchester,[89] allegations which subsequently turned out to be false.[90][91] Video footage before City's Europa League clash with Dinamo Kiev in March 2011 showed Balotelli requiring assistance to put on a training bib,[92] an incident which teammate Edin Džeko was seen mimicking the following week in the warm up before City's game at Chelsea.[93] In September 2011, Balotelli was reportedly seen using his iPad whilst on the substitutes' bench for Italy during their game with the Faroe Islands,[94] although he denied this on a visit to a prison later that week.[95] Balotelli has turned the garden of his Manchester home into a racetrack for quadbikes.[96] Balotelli celebrated his goal against Manchester United in October 2011 by unveiling a shirt with the words: "Why always me?" on it - a celebration which seemingly disputes the accuracy of newspaper reports.[97] The day before the match a firework was set off in Balotelli's home, and later that week he was unveiled as an ambassador for firework safety.[98][99] On 5 November 2011, at the annual fireworks display at Edenbridge, Kent, a 12 m tall effigy of Balotelli was burned.[100]
In December 2011, Balotelli broke a 48-hour curfew before City's game against Chelsea to go to a curry house, although he "was not drinking alcohol, signed autographs, posed for pictures with fellow diners and was involved in a mock sword-fight using rolling pins". The club launched an internal investigation and he could face disciplinary action.[101] In the same month, it was reported that Balotelli visited his local church where he donated £200 and then visited a pub in Chorlton-cum-Hardy where he bought a £1000 round.[102] Balotelli's jaunt and donation to church was later confirmed by the church's priest.[103]
Balotelli made an unexpected appearance at Andrea Stramaccioni's first press conference as Inter Milan coach on March 2012. Balotelli entered the press room, shook Stramaccioni's hand and those of other people at the podium before leaving the press conference amidst some laughter from the crowd.[104]
After Manchester City won the league on 13th May 2012, Balotelli promised on BBC Radio One to record a song in commemoration of the feat, entitled "Mr Mario and the Sky Blues".
Balotelli considers himself a "genius" and this is why he thinks he is misunderstood.[105]
International goals[link]
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 11 November 2011 | Stadion Miejski, Wrocław, Poland |  Poland |
0–1 | 0–2 | Friendly | |||||
| Correct as of 11 November 2011 | |||||||||||
Career statistics[link]
- As of 13 May 2012.[106]
| Club | Season | League | Cup1 | Europe | Other2 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lumezzane | 2005–06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Internazionale | 2007–08 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 7 |
| 2008–09 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 10 | |
| 2009–10 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 11 | |
| Total | 59 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 86 | 28 | |
| Manchester City | 2010–11 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 10 |
| 2011–12 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 17 | |
| Total | 40 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 27 | |
| Career Total | 101 | 39 | 18 | 7 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 148 | 55 | |
- 1 Includes Football League Cup
- 2 Includes Supercoppa Italiana, UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield
Honours[link]
Club[link]
- Internazionale
- Serie A (3): 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
- Coppa Italia (1): 2009–10
- Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2008
- UEFA Champions League (1): 2009–10
- Manchester City
- FA Cup (1): 2010–11
- Premier League (1): 2011–12
Individual[link]
- Golden Boy Award (1): 2010
- FA Cup Final Man of the Match: 2011
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- ^ Super Mario Balotelli can win title for Manchester City Daily Mail, 29 July 2010
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- ^ Hattenstone, Simon (24 October 2011). "Mario Balotelli's quirky lifestyle honoured with a chant of its own". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/oct/24/manchester-city-fans-mario-balotelli. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
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- ^ Sinnott, John (28 March 2011). "Mario Balotelli involved in dart incident". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/9439114.stm. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ "Mario Balotelli helps City fan being bullied at school". The Sun (London). 10 May 2011. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3571579/Mario-Balotelli-helps-City-fan-being-bullied-at-school.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ Smart, Gordon (20 April 2011). "Mario Balotelli wins £25,000... then gives £1000 to a tramp". The Sun (London). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3536493/Mario-Balotelli-wins-25000-then-gives-1000-to-a-tramp.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ It's Always Something With Balotelli - Wall Street Journal, 23 Oct 2011
- ^ Mario's made-up Santa spree - Yahoo Eurosport, 19 Dec 2011
- ^ "Mario Balotelli struggles to dress himself | The Sun |Sport|Football". London: The Sun. 2011-03-18. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3477054/Mario-Balotelli-struggles-to-dress-himself.html. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
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Rufus Harley, Jr. (b. near Raleigh, North Carolina, May 20, 1936; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 31, 2006) was an American jazz musician of mixed Cherokee and African ancestry, known primarily as the first jazz musician to adopt the Scottish great Highland bagpipe as his primary instrument.
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Biography[link]
Although born near Raleigh, North Carolina, at an early age Harley moved with his mother to a poor neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began playing the C melody saxophone at age 12, and also played trumpet. At the age of 22, he began studying saxophone, flute, oboe, and clarinet with Dennis Sandole (1913–2000), an Italian American jazz guitarist who also taught several other Philadelphia jazz musicians.[1]
Harley became inspired to learn the bagpipe after seeing the Black Watch perform in John F. Kennedy's funeral procession in November 1963. Then a maintenance worker for the Philadelphia's housing authority, Harley began searching the city for a set of bagpipes. Failing to find one, he traveled to New York City where he found a set in a pawn shop. He purchased the instrument for US$120, quickly adapting it to the idioms of jazz, blues, and funk. On several occasions, when a neighbor called the police to complain about Harley's practicing in his apartment, he would quickly put away his bagpipes and feign ignorance, asking the officers, "Do I look like I'm Irish or Scottish to you?"[2] He eventually acquired a better set of bagpipes, which cost him a little over US$1,000.[3]
Harley made his bagpipe performance debut in 1964. From 1965 to 1970 he released four recordings as leader on the Atlantic label (all produced by Joel Dorn, an early supporter), also recording as a sideman with Herbie Mann, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins in the 1960s and 1970s. He later recorded with Laurie Anderson (appearing on her 1982 album Big Science) and The Roots (on their 1995 album Do You Want More?!!!??!), the latter coming about due to a 1994 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. In addition to bagpipes, on these albums he also occasionally plays tenor saxophone, flute, or electric soprano saxophone.
Harley often wore Scottish garb, including a kilt, in conjunction with a Viking-style horned helmet. After seeing him perform on television, a Scottish family gave him his tartan, the MacLeod tartan, which he wore for the rest of his life.[3] His bagpipe technique was somewhat unorthodox in that he placed the drones over his right shoulder rather than his left. He favored the key of B-flat minor.
Harley lived for much of his life in the Germantown neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and frequently gave presentations in Philadelphia-area public schools. During his frequent overseas performance tours, he carried and distributed miniature replicas of the Liberty Bell, the symbol of his hometown, as well as American flags and copies of the U.S. Constitution. He appeared on a number of television programs, including What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth (March 22, 1965 [4] and again c. 2000), I've Got a Secret (October 17, 1966),[5] and The Arsenio Hall Show. He also had a small role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1966 comedy film You're a Big Boy Now, as well as Eddie and the Cruisers (1983). In addition to his performing career, he worked for the Philadelphia Housing Authority for many years.
In 1998 the CD album Brotherly Love was released, on the Tartan Pride label, alongside the book The Jazzish Bagpiper, a photo anthology and conversations with Harley, by Charles A. Powell, the first to compliment Harley's contributions to American music with Celtic bagpipes.[6] Writing in the sleeve notes for the album, Ralph Stevenson Jr., Harley's executive producer, noted:
"Rufus Harley resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania home of the Liberty Bell. Harley, musical ambassador of the City of Brotherly love, has been received and embraced by tribal leaders, heades of state and many notables from around the world. His message of peace and love is blended in this CD collaboration and lead by his dues paid, musical labor of sax and bagpipes".[7]
He died at Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center on July 31, 2006 of prostate cancer.[8] He is survived by his former wife Barbara Jean Jones, 16 children, and 15 grandchildren. One of his sons, Messiah Patton Harley, also of Philadelphia, is a trumpeter who often performed with his father.
A new documentary film entitled Pipes of Peace, an intimate profile of the late Philadelphia musician, directed and produced by fellow Philadelphian George Manney, was released by Brotherly Love All-Star Tour productions in 2008.[9]
A posthumous retrospective on Rhino Handmade, Courage - The Atlantic Recordings, was released in November 2006 as a 3,000 copy limited edition, and contains all the tracks from his four Atlantic LPs, plus an unreleased track of Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson's composition Where Have All the Flowers Gone? recorded in 1969.
Discography[link]
As leader[link]
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- 1965 - Bagpipe Blues, Atlantic Records, SD 3001
- 1966 - Scotch & Soul, Atlantic Records, SD 3006
- 1968 - A Tribute to Courage Atlantic Records, SD 1504
- 1970 - King/Queens, Atlantic Records, SD 1539 (with Nadi Qamar, mamlukembia and Madagascar harp; and instrumental ensemble composed of Richard Tee, piano; Eric Gale, guitar; Chuck Rainey, electric bass guitar; Jimmy Johnson, drums; Montego Joe [Sanders], conga)
- 1972 - Re-Creation of the Gods
- 1998 - Brotherly Love (first NAm CD; Tartan Pride label; Peter Amahl, drums; Tony Cesarano, guitar; produced by Ralph Stevenson, Jr.)
- 2000 - The Pied Piper of Jazz (compilation of Atlantic tracks, 1965–70)
- 2005 - Sustain
- 2009 - Re-Creation of the Gods CD reissue on Transparency Label
- 2009 - Bagpipes of the World released by Transparency
- 2006 - Courage: The Atlantic Recordings (Rhino Handmade - Limited edition of 3,000 copies)
As sideman[link]
With Laurie Anderson
- 1982 - Big Science (bagpipe on "Sweaters")
With Herbie Mann
- 1967 - The Wailing Dervishes (on "Flute Bag")
With Sonny Rollins
- 1974 - The Cutting Edge (on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot")
With The Roots:
- 1995 - Do You Want More?!!!??!
With Sonny Stitt:
- 1967 - Deuces Wild (tenor saxophone and bagpipes)
Films[link]
- 2008 - Pipes of Peace: Rufus Harley. 2008. DVD video 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col., ; 43⁄4 in.
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References[link]
- ^ http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/15186068.htm
- ^ CJ Online's Community News: Bagpipes learn to play jazz 06/06/99
- ^ a b Philadelphia Classical Music Calendar, Pennsylvania
- ^ Untitled Document
- ^ Bw Overnight Review!!!!!!!!!! - Page 60 - GSN Buzz
- ^ Powell, C. A., (1998), The Jazzish Bagpiper, Quantum Leap Publisher, Inc., 2604 Christy St., Tracey, CA 95376.
- ^ [Ralph Stevenson Jr., FSA (Scot), sleeve notes for Brotherly Love, cd album, Tartan Pride, CD 9801
- ^ http://blogs.philly.com/blinq/2006/08/rufus_harley_ja.html
- ^ http://www.pipesofpeacemovie.com.HTM
External links[link]
- Rufus Harley biography from Hip Wax
- Pipes of Peace, Rufus Harley documentary
- Interview with VICE magazine
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| Townes Van Zandt | |
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| Van Zandt in the film Heartworn Highways Van Zandt in the film Heartworn Highways |
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| Birth name | John Townes Van Zandt |
| Born | (1944-03-07)March 7, 1944 Fort Worth, Texas |
| Died | January 1, 1997(1997-01-01) (aged 52) Mt. Juliet, Tennessee |
| Genres | Blues, folk, country |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, producer, arranger |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1965–1996 |
| Labels | Poppy, Tomato, Sugar Hill, TVZ, Fat Possum |
| Associated acts | Lightnin' Hopkins, Mickey Newbury, Steve Earle, Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys, Guy Clark |
| Website | townesvanzandt.com |
John Townes Van Zandt[1] (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You," "To Live is to Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are considered standards of their genre.
While alive, Van Zandt was labeled as a cult musician; though he had a small and devoted fanbase, he never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print.[2][3] In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty," scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts.[2][4] Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars,[5] often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins, and on friends' couches.[3] Van Zandt was notorious for his drug addictions,[6] alcoholism,[6] and his tendency to tell tall tales.[7] When young, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and insulin shock therapy erased much of his long-term memory.[8][9][10]
Van Zandt died on New Years Day 1997 from health problems stemming from years of substance abuse.[6] The 2000s saw a resurgence of interest in Van Zandt.[2] During the decade, two books, a documentary film, and a number of magazine articles about the singer were created.[2] Van Zandt's music has been covered by such notable and varied musicians as Bob Dylan,[11] Norah Jones,[12] Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Cowboy Junkies.
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Early life[link]
Townes Van Zandt was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to a wealthy oil family. He was the third-great-grandson of Isaac Van Zandt, a prominent leader of the Republic of Texas and second great-grandson of Khleber M. Van Zandt, Confederate Major and one of the founders of Fort Worth.[8] Van Zandt County in east Texas was named after his family in 1848. Townes' parents were Harris Williams Van Zandt (1913–1966) and Dorothy Townes (?-1983).[13] He had two siblings, Bill and Donna. Harris was a corporate lawyer, and his career required the family to move several times during the 1950s and 1960s.[14] In 1952 the family transplanted from Fort Worth to Midland, Texas, for six months before moving to Billings, Montana.
At Christmas in 1956, Townes' father gave him a guitar, which he practiced while wandering the countryside.[15] He would later tell an interviewer that, "watching Elvis Presley's October 28, 1956, performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was the starting point for me becoming a guitar player... I just thought that Elvis had all the money in the world, all the Cadillacs and all the girls, and all he did was play the guitar and sing. That made a big impression on me."[1] In 1958 the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. Van Zandt would remember his time in Colorado fondly and would often visit it as an adult. He would also later refer to Colorado in the songs "My Proud Mountains" and "Colorado Girl."
During his youth, Townes was noted as a good student and active in team sports.[16] In grade school, it was recognized that Van Zandt had a genius IQ and his parents began grooming him to become a lawyer or senator.[9] Fearing that his family would move again, he willingly decided to attend Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota.[17] He received a score of 1170 when he took the SAT in January 1962.[18] His family soon moved to Houston, Texas.
Van Zandt was accepted into the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1962. In the spring of his sophomore year, his parents flew to Boulder to bring Townes back to Houston, apparently worried about his binge drinking and episodes of depression.[9] They admitted him to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was diagnosed with manic depression. He received three months of insulin shock therapy, which erased much of his long-term memory.[8][9] Afterwards, his mother's "biggest regret in life was that she had allowed that treatment to occur."[10] In 1965 he was accepted into the University of Houston's pre-law program. He soon after attempted to join the Air Force, but was rejected due to a doctor's diagnosis that called him "an acute manic-depressive who has made minimal adjustments to life."[9] He finally quit school for good around 1967, having been inspired by his singer-songwriter heroes to pursue a career in playing music.
Early musical career[link]
In 1965 Van Zandt began playing regular shows at the Jester Lounge in Houston for $10 per night.[19] There he met fellow musicians Lightning Hopkins, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doc Watson. His repertoire consisted mostly of covers of songs written by Hopkins, Bob Dylan, and others, as well as original novelty songs like "Fraternity Blues."[20] In 1966, right before his death, Harris Van Zandt had encouraged his son to stop playing covers and write his own songs.[21] In 1968 Van Zandt met songwriter Mickey Newbury in a Houston coffee shop. Newbury persuaded Van Zandt to go to Nashville, where he was introduced by Newbury to the man who would become his longtime producer, "Cowboy" Jack Clement.
Among Van Zandt's major influences was Texas blues man Lightnin' Hopkins, whose songs were a constant part of his repertoire. He also cited early Bob Dylan and Hank Williams as having had a major impact on his music. Van Zandt also cited such varied artists as Guy Clark, Muddy Waters, Mozart, The Rolling Stones, Blind Willie McTell, Tchaikovsky, Richard Dobson, and Jefferson Airplane as influences.[1]
For much of his career, Van Zandt maintained a flippant attitude towards the recording process, with songwriting being his primary concern.[22] As a result, his regular producer Jack Clement would take creative license, turning some of Van Zandt's early albums into uneven and wildly over-produced affairs.[23] 1968's For the Sake of the Song features "harpsichords, flutes, martial drum beats, and a whole host of backup singers that would make the most overproduced Southern Gospel album hang its head in disgrace."[23] Clement has since expressed regret over some of his production choices.[23]
1970s[link]
The years between 1968 and 1973 would prove to be Van Zandt's most prolific era.[2] He released five albums during the time period: Our Mother the Mountain, Townes Van Zandt, Delta Momma Blues, High, Low and in Between, and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. Among the tracks written for these albums were "For the Sake of the Song," "To Live is to Fly," Tecumseh Valley," and "Pancho and Lefty." These songs would eventually raise Van Zandt to near-legend status in American and European songwriting circles.[2] In 1972 Van Zandt recorded tracks for an album with a working title of Seven Come Eleven, which would remain unreleased for many years due to a dispute between his manager Kevin Eggers and producer Jack Clement. Eggers either could not or refused to pay for the studio sessions, so Clement erased the master tapes. However, before they were deleted, Eggers snuck in to the studio and recorded rough mixes of the songs on to a cassette tape. Tracks from the aborted Seven Come Eleven debacle would later surface on The Nashville Sessions.
In 1975 Van Zandt was featured prominently in the documentary film Heartworn Highways with Guy Clark, Steve Earle, and David Allen Coe. His segment of the film was shot at his run-down trailer home in Austin, Texas, where Van Zandt is shown drinking straight whiskey during the middle of the day, shooting and playing with guns, and performing the songs "Waitin' Around to Die" and "Pancho & Lefty."[24] His soon-to-be second wife Cindy and dog Geraldine (a large, "keenly intelligent" half-wolf, half-husky) are also featured in the film.[25]
In 1977 Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas was released. The album showcased Van Zandt solo at a 1973 concert before a small audience, and less elaborately produced than many of his early records.[26] The album received positive reviews,[27] and is considered by many to be among the best albums that the songwriter ever released.[23][27][28] Several points on the album showcased his dry sense of humor, a feature that also showed in some of his songwriting.
In the mid-1970s, Van Zandt split from his longtime manager, Kevin Eggers.[2] He found a new manager, John Lomax III (grandson of the famed folk music historian John Lomax), who set up a fan club for Van Zandt.[29] Though the club was only advertised through small ads in the back of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched by Van Zandt.[29] Some of the letters described how his material often served as a crutch for those who were dealing with depression.[29] In the summer of 1978, the singer fired Lomax and re-hired Eggers. He soon after signed to Egger's new label, Tomato Records.[2] The following year, he recorded Flyin' Shoes; he would not release another album until 1987's At My Window.
Despite critical acclaim, Van Zandt remained a cult figure. He normally played small venues (often to crowds of fewer than fifty people) but began to move towards playing larger venues (and even made a handful of television appearances) during the 1990s. For much of the 1970s, he lived a reclusive life outside of Nashville in a tin-roofed, bare-boards shack with no heat, plumbing or telephone, occasionally appearing in town to play shows.[25] Steve Earle would later say that Van Zandt's primary concerns during this time period were planting morning glories, listening to Paul Harvey's radio show, and watching the sitcom Happy Days.
1980s - 1990s[link]
Several of Van Zandt's compositions were recorded by other artists, such as Emmylou Harris who, with Don Williams, had a #3 country hit in 1981 with "If I Needed You," and Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, the pair taking "Pancho & Lefty" to number one on the country charts in 1983. Van Zandt had a small cameo appearance in the video for the song. In his later years he recorded less frequently, his voice and singing style altered in part because of his lifestyle and alcoholism. However, he continued writing songs, such as "Marie" and "The Hole."
According to Susanna Clark, Van Zandt turned down repeated invitations to write with Bob Dylan.[30] Dylan was reportedly a "big fan" of Townes and claimed to have all of his records; Van Zandt admired Dylan's songs, but didn't care for his celebrity.[30] The two first met during a chance encounter outside a costume shop in the South Congress district of Austin, Texas, on June 21, 1986.[30] According to Johnny Guess, Dylan later arranged another meeting with the songwriter. The Drag in Austin was shut down due to Dylan being in town; Van Zandt drove his motorhome to the cordoned-off area, after which Dylan boarded the vehicle and requested to hear him play several songs.[31]
In May and June 1990, he opened for The Cowboy Junkies during a two-month-long tour of the United States and Canada, which exposed him to a younger generation of fans.[1] As a result, he wrote the song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" for the group, with a verse about each respective member of the band.[32]
Death[link]
Van Zandt continued writing and performing through the 1990s, though his output slowed noticeably as time went on. He had enjoyed some sobriety during the early 1990s, but was actively abusing alcohol during the final years of his life. In 1994 he was admitted to the hospital to detox, during which time a doctor told Jeanene Van Zandt that trying to detox Townes again could potentially kill him.[33] He grew increasingly frail during the mid-1990s, with some long-time friends noting that he seemed to have "withered."[34]
In the spring of 1996, he was contacted by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, who informed Van Zandt that he was interested in recording and releasing an album for him on the band's Ecstatic Peace label, funded by Geffen.[35] Van Zandt agreed, and sessions were scheduled to begin in Memphis during late December of that year.
On December 19 or 20, Van Zandt fell down the concrete stairs outside his home, badly injuring his hip.[33][36] After lying outside for an hour, he dragged himself inside and called his ex-wife Jeanene, who sent their friends Royann and Jim Calvin to check on him. He told the couple that he had sustained the injury while getting out of bed, and refused medical treatment.[36] They took him back to their home, and he spent the Christmas week on their couch, unable to get up even to use the bathroom.[36]
Determined to finish the album that he had scheduled to record with Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar, Van Zandt arrived at the Memphis studio being pushed in a wheelchair by road manager Harold Eggers. Shelley canceled the sessions due to the songwriter's erratic behavior and drunkenness. Van Zandt finally agreed to hospitalization, but not before returning to Nashville. By the time he had consented to receive medical care, eight days passed since the injury.[33] On December 31, X-rays revealed that Van Zandt had an impacted left femoral neck fracture in his hip, and several corrective surgeries were performed.[37] Jeanene informed the surgeon that one of Townes' previous rehab doctors had told her detoxing could kill him.[33] The medical staff tried to explain to her that detoxing a "late-term alcoholic" at home would be ill-advised, but he would have a better chance at recovering under hospital supervision.[37] She did not heed these warnings, and instead checked Townes out of the hospital against medical advice.[38] Understanding that he would most likely drink immediately after leaving the hospital, the physicians refused to prescribe him any painkillers.[39]
By the time Van Zandt was checked out of the hospital early the next morning, he had begun to show signs of DTs.[33] Jeanene rushed him to her car, where she gave him a flask of vodka to ward off the withdrawal delirium.[33] She would later report that after getting back to his home in Smyrna, Tennessee, and giving him alcohol, he was "lucid, in a real good mood, calling his friends on the phone."[33] Jim Calvin shared a marijuana joint with him,[38] and he was also given about four Tylenol PM tablets.[39]
While Jeanene was on the phone with Susanna Clark, their son Will noticed that Townes had stopped breathing and "looked dead."[33] He alerted his mother, who attempted to perform CPR, "screaming his name between breaths."[33] Townes Van Zandt died in the early morning hours of January 1, 1997, at the age of 52. His official cause of death was "natural" cardiac arrhythmia.[40] He died forty-four years to the day after Hank Williams, one of his main songwriting influences.[41]
Two services were held for Van Zandt: one in Texas, mostly attended by family; and another in a large Nashville church, attended by friends, acquaintances, and fans.[9] Some of his ashes were placed underneath a headstone in the Van Zandt family plot at the Dido Cemetery in Dido, Texas, outside of Fort Worth.[9][42]
Personal life[link]
Relationships[link]
Van Zandt married Fran Petters on August 26, 1965; a son, John Townes "J.T." Van Zandt II, was born to them on April 11, 1969, in Houston. The couple were divorced on January 16, 1970.[1] She would later remarry, changing her last name to Lohr.[43]
He moved in with Cindy Morgan in late 1974, and the two married in Nashville in September 1978. They became estranged for much of the early 1980s, and were divorced on February 10, 1983, in Travis County, Texas. They had no children together.[1] She would later remarry, changing her last name to Lindgram.[44]
Van Zandt's third and final marriage was to Jeanene Munsell (born February 21, 1957). They met on December 9, 1980 at a memorial for John Lennon. When the terminally-ill Dorothy Van Zandt learned that her son had impregnated Munsell, she told him, "You're going to do the right thing and honor that baby."[45] He soon after divorced from his estranged second wife, and married Munsell on March 14, 1983; their first child, William Vincent, was born ten days later. Another child, Katie Belle, was born February 14, 1992. Van Zandt and Munsell were divorced on May 2, 1994. However, the two remained close until Townes' death, and Jeanene became an executor of the Estate of Townes Van Zandt.[1]
Around the time of their April 1993 separation,[46] Jeanene Van Zandt coaxed the musician into signing over the publishing rights of his entire back catalog and recording royalties to her and their children.[47] Townes's only source of income after this point was money received from concert engagements,[48] and even then Townes would frequently visit his ex-wife and "give her all the money in his pockets."[49] Following their divorce in 1994, his only worldly possessions were listed as a 1989 GMC Truck with camper shell, a 1984 Honda Shadow Motorcycle and a 1983 Starwind 22-foot boat named Dorothy; he also retained sole ownership of his family inheritance of "ownership in oil lease and mineral rights."[50]
At the time of his death, he had begun a long-distance relationship with a woman named Claudia Winterer from Darmstadt, Germany.[51] The two met in November 1995 during a concert of his in Hanau. Van Zandt told several friends that he planned on marrying Winterer,[52] but the two never became formally engaged.
Addiction[link]
Van Zandt struggled with heroin addiction and alcoholism throughout his adult life. At times he would become drunk on stage and forget the lyrics to his songs. At one point, his heroin habit was so intense that he offered Kevin Eggers the publishing rights to all of the songs on each of his first four albums for $20.[53] At various points, Van Zandt's friends saw him shoot up not just heroin, but also cocaine, vodka, as well as a mixture of rum and Coke.[54] On at least one occasion, he shot up heroin in the presence of his son J.T., who was only eight years old at the time.[25]
As a result of Van Zandt's constant drinking, Harold Eggers, Kevin's brother, was hired on as his tour manager and 24-hour caretaker in 1976, a partnership that would last for the rest of the singer's life.[53] Although the musician was many years older than he was, Eggers would later say that Van Zandt was his "first child."[53]
Van Zandt's battle with addiction led him to be admitted to rehab almost a dozen times throughout the 1970s and 1980s.[55] Medical records from his time in recovery centers show that he believed his drinking had become a problem around 1973, and by 1982 he was drinking at least a pint of vodka daily.[55] Doctors notes reported: "He admits to hearing voices, mostly musical voices," and "Affect is blunted and mood is sad. Judgment and insight is impaired."[55] At various points in his life, he was prescribed to take the antidepressant Zoloft and the mood stabilizer lithium.[46][56] His final and longest period of sobriety during his adult life was a period of about a year in 1989 and 1990.[32]
Legacy[link]
Legal issues over Van Zandt's work[link]
In the years immediately following Van Zandt's death, his former manager and label owner Kevin Eggers issued fourteen albums of both new and previously unreleased material by the singer, all without consent of his estate (represented by Jeanene Van Zandt and his three children).[57] Eggers also claimed a 50% interest in eighty of Van Zandt's songs. After nearly ten years of legal battles, the court sided with the estate, issuing "injunctive relief against Eggers, restraining him from reproducing or distributing any of Van Zandt's songs."[57]
It was revealed through these proceedings that Van Zandt's annual income in the years before his death had climbed to over $100,000, thanks in large part to the royalties accrued from his songs being covered by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Cowboy Junkies, and other major music stars.[58]
After Van Zandt's death, Harold Eggers (Kevin's brother, Van Zandt's longtime road manager), whose job it was to make sure Townes' shows were recorded, released many video and audio recordings from hundreds of the songwriter's concerts he kept in his possession over a twenty-year period. At issue was whether Eggers or the estate should be in legal ownership of the tapes.[57] An out-of-court settlement in 2006 "essentially granted the Van Zandts eventual control over all of Harold Eggers' mastered recordings (once certain undisclosed obligations were met), while Harold Eggers retained a 50% ownership interest in seven of the albums at issue and a royalty interest in the remaining recordings."[57] However, both parties eventually found fault with the settlement and the issue was taken back to court.
On October 21, 2008, a number of Van Zandt's personal possessions were auctioned off at The Northside in Akron, Ohio, at a benefit for Wrecks Bell, Van Zandt's close friend and bandmate who was the inspiration for the song "Rex's Blues." Bell was half-owner of the nightclub in Houston where Townes recorded his album Live at the Old Quarter. He now owns the "new" Old Quarter in Galveston, which was uninsured and destroyed by Hurricane Ike.[59] The Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe reopened on December 11, 2008, after a series of benefit concerts held state-wide.
In music[link]
Van Zandt has been referred to as a cult musician and "a songwriter's songwriter."[60][61] Musician Steve Earle, who met him in 1978 and considered Van Zandt a mentor, once called Van Zandt "the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."[60][62] The quote was printed on a sticker featured on the packing of At My Window, much to Van Zandt's displeasure.[63] In the years following, the quote was often cited by the press, much to Van Zandt and Earle's embarrassment;[64] in 2009, Earle told the New York Times, "Did I ever believe that Townes was better than Bob Dylan? No."[64] But he later concluded at the end of the same article that, "As a songwriter, you won’t find anybody better." Earle has championed the songwriter on a number of occasions: his eldest son, Justin Townes Earle, also a musician, is named after Van Zandt;[64] Earle wrote the song "Fort Worth Blues" as a tribute to the singer in the late 1990s,[64] and in 2009 released an album titled Townes, which featured all covers of Van Zandt songs.[64]
Influential in the sub-genre referred to as outlaw country, his Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country. He has been cited as a source of inspiration by such notable artists as Bob Dylan,[30] Neil Young,[65] Willie Nelson,[66] John Prine,[66] Lyle Lovett,[67] Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers,[68] Emmylou Harris,[66] Nanci Griffith,[66] Cowboy Junkies,[69] Vetiver,[70] Guy Clark,[66] Devendra Banhart,[71] Norah Jones,[12] Robert Plant & Alison Krauss,[72] The Be Good Tanyas,[73] Josh Ritter,[74] Gillian Welch,[75] Garth Brooks,[76] Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes,[77] and Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon.[78]
In 2012, Van Zandt was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame.[79]
In July 2012 Neurot Recordings will release a three-way split CD in tribute to Van Zandt, featuring Neurosis singer/guitarists Scott Kelly,Steve Von Till and doom/stoner metal legend Wino.[80]
In film and television[link]
Van Zandt's Roadsongs album version of The Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers" was used during the final scene of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film, The Big Lebowski. The song was also included on the movie's soundtrack.
Since his death, Van Zandt's recordings have been licensed by his family for use in a number of films and television programs, including Stepmom, Six Feet Under, In Bruges, Crazy Heart, Leaves of Grass, and Deadwood.
In the film Country Strong, the Austin Statesman describes the character of Beau Hutton as the next "Townes Van Zandt."
Films and books about Van Zandt[link]
In 2006, the film Be Here To Love Me,[81] chronicling the artist's life and musical career, was released in the United States. It was very well received, earning a 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[82] Georgia Christgau of the Village Voice called the documentary "sympathetic but frank."[83] Eddie Cockrell of Variety called the film "a dignified and wistful look at the unusual life, difficult career and lasting influence" of Van Zandt.[84]
A biography, titled To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth, was released in 2007. It received mixed reviews, with Publishers Weekly lamenting that Kruth's "efforts are diminished by oddly alternating first- and third-person narratives, awkward transitions and text cluttered with excessive quotes... more insight into why - rather than countless tales of how - would have made this bio a more worthwhile read."[85]
In April 2008, the University of North Texas Press published Robert Earl Hardy's biography on the songwriter, titled A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt. The book featured the fruits of over eight years of research, including interviews with Mickey Newbury, Jack Clement, Guy and Susanna Clark, Mickey White, Rex Bell, Dan Rowland, Richard Dobson, John Lomax III, Van Zandt's brother and sister, cousins, and all three of his ex-wives, and many others. It has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a "poignant, clear and vivid portrait."[86]
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
- For the Sake of the Song - 1968
- Our Mother the Mountain - 1969
- Townes Van Zandt - 1969
- Delta Momma Blues - 1971
- High, Low and in Between - 1972
- The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - 1972
- Flyin' Shoes - 1978
- At My Window - 1987
- The Nashville Sessions - 1993 (recordings from the aborted Seven Come Eleven album, recorded 1972)
- No Deeper Blue - 1994
- Riding The Range( only two songs: Riding The Range and Dirty Old Town ) - 1996
- A Far Cry From Dead - 1999 (later-life studio guitar and vocal recordings posthumously overdubbed)
- Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings - 2001
- In the Beginning - 2003 (studio demo recordings from 1966)
Singles[link]
- Waiting Around to Die/Talking Karate Blues - 1968
- Second Lovers Song/Tecumseh Valley - 1969
- Come Tomorrow/Delta Mama Blues - 1971
- If I Needed You/Sunshine Boy - 1972
- Honky Tonkin'/Snow Dont Fall - 1972
- Fraulein/Don't Let the Sunshine Fool Ya - 1972
- Greensboro Woman/Standin' - 1972
- Pancho and Lefty/Heavenly Houseboat Blues - 1972
- Pancho and Lefty/If I Needed You - 1973
- Who Do You Love/Dollar Bill Blues - 1978
- When She Don't Need Me/No Place to Fall - 1978
- Dead Flowers/Fraulein/Racing in the Street - 1993 (German CD single)
- Ain't Leavin' Your Love - 1999 (US CD single)
- Riding the Range/Dirty Old Town - 1996
- Snowin On Raton - 2001 (US CD single) -from Texas Rain
- Highwaykind - 2002 (CD single)
Live albums[link]
- Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas - 1977 (recorded July 1973)
- Live and Obscure - 1989 (recorded in 1985)
- Rain on a Conga Drum: Live in Berlin - 1991 (recorded October 1990)
- Roadsongs - 1993
- Rear View Mirror - 1993 (recorded live Oklahoma, 1979)
- Abnormal - 1996 (reissued in 1998 with 3 tracks replaced)
- The Highway Kind - 1997
- Documentary - 1997
- Last Rights - 1997 (alternative version of Documentary)
- In Pain - 1999 (recorded live, 1994/1996)
- Together at the Bluebird Café w/ Guy Clark and Steve Earle - 2001 (recorded September 1995)
- Live at McCabe's - 2001 (recorded February 1995)
- A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt - 2002 (recorded November 1969)
- Absolutely Nothing - 2002 (recorded 1991-1996)
- Acoustic Blue - 2003 (recorded 1994/1996)
- Live at the Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966 - 2004
- Rear View Mirror, Volume 2 - 2004 (recorded 1978/79)
- Live at Union Chapel, London, England - 2005 (recorded April 1994)
- Houston 1988: A Private Concert - 2005
Videos[link]
- Heartworn Highways - 1981
- Be Here to Love Me - 2004
- Houston 1988: A Private Concert - 2004
- Townes Live In Amsterdam - 2008 (recorded 11/12/91)
Compilations[link]
- Last Rights: The Life & Times of Townes Van Zandt - 1997
- Master - 1997
- Anthology: 1968-1979 - 1998
- The Best of Townes Van Zandt - 1999
- Drama Falls Like Teardrops - 2001
- The Very Best of Townes Van Zandt: The Texan Troubadour - 2002
- Singer Songwriter - 2002
- Texas Troubadour - 2002
- Legend - 2003
- Buckskin Stallion - 2006
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External links[link]
- Townes Van Zandt Central - official website
- Townes Van Zandt at AllMusic
- Townes Van Zandt at the Internet Movie Database
- Townes Van Zandt: The Self-Destructive Hobo Saint by John Kruth, originally appeared in Sing Out! V48#2
- Travels with Townes Van Zandt by Steve Hawley July 2003
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| Preceded by Mickey Newbury |
AMA Presidents Award 2007 |
Succeeded by Jerry Garcia |
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| Name | Van Zandt, Townes |
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| Short description | American songwriter |
| Date of birth | 1944-03-07 |
| Place of birth | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Date of death | 1997-01-01 |
| Place of death | Smyrna, Tennessee |
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| Kendrick Lamar | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Kendrick Lamar Duckworth |
| Also known as | K. Dot |
| Born | (1987-06-17) June 17, 1987 (age 25) |
| Origin | Compton, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper, songwriter |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope |
| Associated acts | Black Hippy, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, J. Cole, Dr. Dre |
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth[1] (born June 17, 1987), simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper and songwriter from Compton, California currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope. He first gained major attention after the release of his 2010 mixtape Overly Dedicated. In 2011, his album Section.80, released exclusively through iTunes, instantly ranked as one of the top digital hip hop releases of the year.[2] Lamar has amassed a large internet following, is a member of hip hop collective Black Hippy, along with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, and has worked with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Wiz Khalifa, Game, Drake, Busta Rhymes and Tech N9ne among other popular artists.[3]
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Biography[link]
1987-2009: Early life and career beginnings[link]
Kendrick Lamar was born in Compton, California, a community southeast of Los Angeles city limits, to parents from Chicago, Illinois.[4] At the age of eight, in 1995, Lamar witnessed his idols, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre film the music video for their hit single "California Love," a very significant moment in Lamar's life.[5] In 2003 at the young age of sixteen, Lamar released his first mixtape, Youngest Head Nigga In Charge under the name K. Dot.[6] The mixtape was able to garner enough attention for Lamar to get a record deal with Top Dawg Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based independent record label.[6] He then released a twenty-six track mixtape two years later titled Training Day.[7] More recognition came Lamar's way after a video of a Charles Hamilton show surfaced, where Hamilton goes in the crowd and battles rappers at attendance. Lamar didn't hesitate and began rapping a verse over Milkbone's "Keep It Real", that would later appear on a track titled "West Coast Wu-Tang".[5] In 2008 Lamar made a cameo appearance on Jay Rock's "All My Life (In the Ghetto)" music video. After receiving a co-sign from Lil Wayne, he released his third mixtape in 2009 titled C4, heavily themed around Tha Carter III LP.[8] Soon after, he decided to drop his stage name K. Dot and go by his real name. This resulted in him releasing a self-titled EP; the Kendrick Lamar EP in late 2009.[9]
[edit] 2010–2011: Overly Dedicated and Section.80
In 2010 he toured with Tech N9ne and Jay Rock on The Independent Grind tour.[6] On September 23, 2010 he released O(verly) D(edicated) a highly acclaimed mixtape that included a song titled "Ignorance is Bliss" in which he glorifies gangsta rap and street crime but ends each verse with "ignorance is bliss" giving the message "we know not what we do".[10][11] It was that song specifically that made hip hop producer Dr. Dre want to work with Lamar.[12] This led to him working with Dre and Snoop Dogg on Dre's Detox album and him considering signing to Aftermath Entertainment.[6][13] In January 2011 Lamar said his debut album was 90% finished.[6]
In early 2011 Lamar was featured on XXL Magazine's 2011 Freshman cover along with CyHi the Prynce, Meek Mill, Mac Miller, Yelawolf, Lil B, Big K.R.I.T. and Diggy Simmons among others.[14] On July 2, 2011, Lamar released his third solo project Section.80 to critical acclaim. It features guest appearances from GLC, Colin Munroe, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and includes production from longtime collaborator Sounwave, Wyldfyer, Terrace Martin, J. Cole and more. On the topic of whether Section.80 would be an album or a mixtape Lamar said "I treat every project like it’s an album anyway. It’s not gonna be nothing leftover. I never do nothing like that. These are my leftover songs y’all can have ‘em, nah. I’m gonna put my best out. My best effort. I’m tryna look for an album in 2012". The first single for Section.80 was the J. Cole produced track "HiiiPower", of which the concept was to further explain the HiiiPower movement. Section.80 went on to sell over 10,000 copies in its first week[15] without any television or radio coverage and received many very positive reviews. In the second half of 2011, Lamar appeared on Game's The R.E.D. Album, Tech N9ne's All 6's and 7's, 9th Wonder's The Wonder Years and Drake's Take Care.
In August 2011, while onstage with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Game, at the West Los Angeles concert, the three of them crowned him the "New King of the West Coast"[16]
[edit] 2012–present: Good Kid in a Mad City
On February 15, 2012, a song titled "Cartoons & Cereal" featuring Gunplay of Triple C's was leaked.[17] Lamar revealed later that the track was for his upcoming album and he was planning to shoot a video for it.[18]
In March 2012, MTV announced that Top Dawg Entertainment, the independent record label Lamar is signed to, have closed a joint venture deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment, marking the end of his career as an independent artist. Under the new deal, Kendrick Lamar’s projects, including his upcoming debut studio album Good Kid in a Mad City will be jointly released via Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope, while releases from the rest of Black Hippy will be distributed via Top Dawg and Interscope.[19]
Lamar premiered "The Recipe", his debut single and the lead single from Good Kid in a Mad City, at Power 106 on April 2, 2012. The track was released for digital download the following day. The song was produced by Scoop DeVille and features Dr. Dre.[citation needed]
It was announced on May 14, 2012, that Lamar is working on a collaborative album with J. Cole. In an interview with Bootleg Kev, Cole stated that "I just started working with Kendrick the other day. We got it in, finally, again. We got maybe four or five [songs] together."
Personal life[link]
In high school, Centennial in Compton, Lamar was a good student.[4] Lamar said that he has seen relatives who have died in his dreams for years. Tupac Shakur is also his favorite rapper, and influences not only his music, but his day-to-day lifestyle as well. In terms of subject matter, Kendrick Lamar has often been compared to Tupac Shakur. [6][20][21] He revealed that his favorite and most influential rappers are Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Jay-Z and his label-mate Eminem.
Discography[link]
Main article: Kendrick Lamar discography
- Section.80 (2011)
- Good Kid in a Mad City (2012)
References[link]
- ^ "Black Hippy: A View from the Center « The FADER". Thefader.com. 2012-02-20. http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/20/black-hippy-a-view-from-the-center/3/. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ Cool, Just Be (2011). "KENDRICK LAMAR: Releases Section.80 on iTunes > Biography". laxpaperboys. http://www.laxpaperboys.com/2011/07/kendrick-lamar-releases-section80-in.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q form quasi-supergroup Black Hippy | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times. Latimesblogs.latimes.com (2010-08-17). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ a b Born and raised in Compton, Kendrick Lamar Hides a Poet's Soul Behind "Pussy & Patron" – Page 1 – Music – Los Angeles. LA Weekly (2011-01-20). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ a b (2011-08-31) Kendrick Lamar: Origins Of Excellence Pt. 3. YouTube. Retrieved on 2011-09-12.
- ^ a b c d e f Graham, Nadine. (2011-01-06) Kendrick Lamar: The West Coast Got Somethin' To Say | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop. HipHop DX. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Ozone Magazine » Issue #84 Patiently Waiting » Issue #84 – Patiently Waiting: Kendrick Lamar. Ozonemag.com (2010-06-23). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Kendrick Lamar C4 Mixtape DatPiff (2009-01-30) DatPiff Retrieved on 2011-07-08
- ^ Bring It Back: Kendrick Lamar EP [2009. 2dopeboyz (2010-09-14). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Hanna, Mitchell. (2010-09-27) Mixtape Release Dates: Kendrick Lamar, K-Os, Terrace Martin, Sheek Louch | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales. HipHop DX. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Double G News Network: GGN Ep. 2 - Special Super Hard Hitting Interview with Kendrick Lamar. Youtube. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
- ^ Jacobs, Allen. (2010-12-17) Dr. Dre Says In 2011, He's Focusing On West Coast Hip Hop – Kendrick Lamar, Slim da Mobster | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales. HipHop DX. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Paine, Jake. (2010-12-25) Kendrick Lamar Reacts To Dr. Dre's Cosign, Considering Aftermath | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales.Kendrick Lamar Says J. Cole Collabo Mixtape is Gonna “Shock The World”. Xxlmag.Com. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ The 2011 XXL Freshmen. Xxlmag.Com. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Hip Hop Album Sales The Week Ending 07-03-2011 HipHopDX (2011-07-03) Retrieved on 2011-07-08
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Kendrick Lamar f. Gunplay - Cartoon & Cereal | New Hip Hop Music & All The New Rap Songs 2011". HipHop DX. 2012-02-14. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/singles/id.19035/title.kendrick-lamar-f-gunplay-cartoon-cereal. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Studio Life: Kendrick Lamar talks Club Paradise Tour & "Cartoons & Cereal"". YouTube. 2012-02-27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLznVTQI5Q&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ Nadeska Alexis (March 8, 2012). "Kendrick Lamar, Black Hippy Ink Deals With Interscope And Aftermath". MTV. http://rapfix.mtv.com/2012/03/08/kendrick-lamar-signs-with-interscope-aftermath/. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ "Kendrick Lamar defines HiiiPower & having a vision of 2pac". YouTube. 2011-07-13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGS25RXaDE. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Kendrick Lamar 'HiiiPOWER' OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0hay4Qw54. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
External links[link]
- Kendrick Lamar on Twitter
- kedricklamar.com Official Site
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| Name | Lamar, Kendrick |
| Alternative names | K.Dot |
| Short description | Recording artist |
| Date of birth | June 17, 1987 |
| Place of birth | Compton, California |
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