Ten veterans of the Canadian radio and TV industry are to be inducted Oct. 21 into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention in Vancouver. Among the new entrants announced Friday are Denise Donlon, president of Sony Canada, and Trina McQueen, until recently president and chief operating officer of CTV Inc., the national TV network. The inductees also include music star Bruce Cockburn; the late Johnny Lombardi, founder of radio and TV broadcaster Chin Ltd.; and Pamela Wallin, a former CTV and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. broadcaster and currently the Canadian consul general in New York. Also on the honors list are Vision TV broadcaster Rita Deverell; Jim Robson, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Vancouver Canucks; the late Clarence Mack, a Calgary, Alberta, radio broadcaster; Atlantic Canada radio announcer Jerry Lawrence; and Liette Champagne, a senior executive at Telemedia Corp. in Montreal. The 76th annual convention of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters is set to run Oct. 20-22 in Vancouver.
- 10/5/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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