Tag: Sign Offs

All things Sign Offs from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada’s broadcast industry publication of record.

The Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: First Peoples Radio, the not-for-profit operating 95.7 ELMNT FM (CFPO-FM) Ottawa and 106.5 ELMNT FM (CFPT-FM) Toronto, has made layoffs citing significant challenges...

Acclaimed filmmaker Jeff Barnaby succumbs to cancer

Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Jeff Barnaby has died after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 46. Born and raised on the Listuguj Reserve in Quebec,...

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André Chagnon, 94, on Oct. 8. Chagnon was born in Montréal in 1928. The son of an electrician, he took up the family trade,...

The Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Melissa Ridgen is joining Global News in the newly-created role of Network Managing Editor, starting Oct. 24. Arriving from APTN where she’s been...

Sign Offs

Mike Oldfield, 83, on Sept. 17, of lymphoma. Born in London, England, Oldfield grew up in North Bay, ON, starting his broadcast career at...

The Weekly Briefing

Introducing our 2022 Canadian Radio Awards jury ChiChi Liu started her career in radio in Taiwan as a program producer and marketing manager with International Community Radio...

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David Ward, on Sept. 27, of cancer. Ward, the longtime Senior Producer and Program Director at Alberta’s CKUA Radio Network, started working with the...

The Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Brad Phillips, Senior Vice-President, Corus Audio, is the new President and Chair of the Board of Directors of Radioplayer Canada (RPC). Julie Adam,...

The Weekly Briefing

The Broadcast Dialogue Canadian Radio Awards are back for 2022 and will open to submissions on Monday, Sept. 26. We want your station’s best radio...

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Bob McCord, 82, on Sept. 12, at his home in California. McCord got his start in radio at CKLC Kingston in the early 1960s....