Bernie McNamee

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Bernie McNamee (born 1952/53?) is a Canadian retired radio journalist, best known as a longtime anchor of news programming, including The World at Six , The World This Weekend and The World This Hour , on CBC Radio One. [1] He has also been an occasional guest host of As It Happens . [2]

Originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, [3] he studied broadcasting at Niagara College, [3] and worked for local radio stations CHSC and CKTB before joining CKNX-TV as a reporter. [3] He later worked for CFRA in Ottawa, [3] and was an anchor for the CKO radio network. He was a reporter for CFTO-TV in Toronto in the late 1980s [4] before joining the CBC in 1989. [3]

He retired from the CBC Radio in 2015. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "CBC Radio shakes up its weekend schedules". Montreal Gazette , June 29, 1994.
  2. ↑ "How they coped when phones conked out". The Globe and Mail , July 17, 1999.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "A CBC radio news veteran comes home" Archived 2015-11-22 at the Wayback Machine . St. Catharines Standard , April 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ "CFTO union urges boycott of station by advertisers". Toronto Star , June 10, 1988.


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