Roger Petersen has been named co-host of Citytv Toronto’s Breakfast Television. Petersen joins co-host Dina Pugliese, along with Stella Acquisto, who joins the show as community correspondent. Petersen has been with Citytv since 1999, undertaking roles from reporter and anchor to host of car show Autoshop. He moved to Citytv Vancouver in 2004 to be lead anchor there before returning to CityNews Toronto in 2008.
Adam Wylde has left KiSS 92.5 (CKIS-FM) and BT Toronto. Wylde had been host of the Adam Wylde Show since 2013 and an entertainment reporter with Breakfast Television since 2015. He hasn’t divulged what’s next, but says he’ll continue as a host with the Steve Dangle Podcast.
Charis Hogg is heading back to Vancouver to join the JACK 96.9 (CJAX-FM) morning show. JACK Mornings with Jeff, Charis and Paul launches in August. Hogg was a co-host on CFOX-FM Vancouver’s Jeff O’Neil Show from 2004-10, before relocating to Saskatoon where she did stints with both Global News and 96.3 CRUZ FM (CFWD-FM).
Jeff Brown leaves Q107 (CFGQ-FM) Calgary to join the JACK 96.9 Vancouver morning show. He’s hosted mornings at Q107 since 2011. His last day is July 6.
Michael Kuss is leaving the JACK 96.9 morning show to join Rogers’ sister station News 1130 (CKWX-AM) as the afternoon meteorologist. Kuss has been co-hosting the morning show for the last year with Paul Brown.
Ron Nicolson has read his last newscast at CBC Calgary after 20 years with the public broadcaster and 40 in radio. Nicolson started his broadcast career as the weekend midnight disc jockey at CFCN-AM Calgary in 1977. Nicholson eventually moved into news at stations in High River, AB, Kamloops, BC, Regina and Toronto, before returning to Calgary in 1998.
CBC Calgary restaurant reviewer John Gilchrist is retiring after 38 years. Gilchrist has been a weekly contributor to Calgary Eyeopener since 1980. He also hosted CBC-TV segment On The Table in the early 2000s. Gilchrist’s reviews in the Calgary Herald and Swerve magazine are also coming to an end.
Christy Clark has been appointed to the Shaw Communications board of directors. Clark was BC’s Premier from 2011-17 and a former cabinet minister in the Gordon Campbell government. In 2005, she took a break from public service and dabbled in radio as host of The Christy Clark Show on CKNW-AM Vancouver.
Alicia Draus is leaving News 95.7 (CJNI-FM) Halifax for Global Halifax. Draus had been an anchor and reporter with Rogers Halifax since Mar. 2017.
Chandler Grieve is leaving CTV Vancouver Island for a new role in government communications and public engagement. He’d been with CTV as a VJ, political reporter and anchor since 2011.
Derek Hinchliffe is retiring from Global Okanagan. Hinchliffe retires as station manager and news director after 35 years with CHBC-TV.
Mark Elliot aka Nils Johanson is retiring from radio. Elliot was host of long-running weekend talk show People Helping People on NewsTalk 1010 (CFRB-AM) Toronto and sister station CJAD-AM Montreal, an open line show on addictions and recovery. He previously hosted The Nightside on CFRB from 2003-07, in addition to stints at CFRA-AM and CFGO-AM Ottawa and CKLW-AM Windsor.
Evan Stoney is joining Newcap Halifax as the new assistant producer and fill-in creative writer. Stoney was previously morning show host at 590 CJCW-AM Sussex, NB and has worked with AVR (CKEN-FM) and Magic 94.9 FM (CKWM-FM) Kentville, NS.
Franca Sperandeo has been promoted from retail sales manager of Evanov Radio Group’s Toronto cluster to general sales manager of Z103.5 (CIDC-FM) and Proud FM (CIRR-FM), as well as interim GSM of Jewel 88.5 (CKDX-FM). Sperandeo has worked in media sales over the last two decades with CTV, Astral Media and Business Television, among others.
Angie Seth, Global News weekend anchor for Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, and the Maritimes, is leaving to join the anchor desk at CTV News Channel. Seth had been with Global since 2014.
Catherine Tait began her five-year mandate as president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada on July 3. Tait is a co-founder of New York-based independent film, TV and digital content company Duopoly Inc., which she led as president from 2002-18. She also co-founded iThentic in 2006 and Hollywood Suite in 2010. She was previously president and COO of Salter Street Films from 1997 to 2001.
Tim Adams is taking a one-year hiatus from CBC Edmonton to work on developing Free Footie, the free kids soccer league he founded, full-time. Adams has a goal of expanding the free kids soccer league to cities across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and every host city of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
