Don Shafer (born May 25, 1947) is an American-born Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and radio industry executive. He has worked on the air and managed numerous radio stations in the United States and Canada for over 50 years.
Don Shafer (born May 25, 1947) is an American-born Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and radio industry executive. He has worked on the air and managed numerous radio stations in the United States and Canada for over 50 years.
Shafer was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [1] and served in the U.S. military from 1965 to 1969 as a communication specialist.
Shafer began his broadcast career at WEEP AM Pittsburgh, and also with KNAC FM Long Beach, California, and KPPC FM in Pasadena, California. [2]
In 1970, Shafer immigrated to Canada. He worked on-air with CHOM-FM (Montreal) from 1970 to 1972, [3] CHUM FM (Toronto) from 1972 to 1976, [1] and The Fox (Vancouver) from 1976 to 1986. [4]
Shafer was named Program Director at The Fox in 1980 under Moffat Communications. In 1986, he was hired as the program director for Rock 101 in Vancouver. In 1988, he moved to Toronto as the President and General Manager and WIC Director of Programming at CILQ-FM. He was Senior Vice President at Pelmorex Radio Network in Ontario from 1992 to 1997.
Shafer was hired as Torstar Media Group's Vice President and General Manager in 1997. He worked on the development of the Toronto Star TV, which extended the Toronto Star newspaper brand into television.
Shafer moved to SUN FM/AM1150/CILK FM in the BC Interior as Vice President and Regional Manager in 2003, where he remained until 2013. [5] In 2013 and 2014, he became the interim General Manager at Jim Pattison Broadcasting's Q104 and FAB 94 in Winnipeg, participating in the acquisition of the two stations. In this capacity, he oversaw 22 radio stations and two television stations in the BC Interior, as Vice-President and Regional Manager with Standard Media, [6] and took part in the transition to new ownership by Astral and then Bell Media.
In 2014 Shafer co-founded Roundhouse Radio in Vancouver, and became its President and CEO. [7] [8] [9] [10] In 2015 Shafer served as a partner in the independent ownership group of 98.3 Roundhouse Radio Vancouver, which was granted a license by the CRTC in August 2014. [11]
Shafer has served on boards and committees at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Radio Marketing Bureau, Television Marketing Bureau, the Small Market Independent Television Group, the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters and FACTOR and is a past President of the Ontario Association of Broadcasters.
Shafer has also served on the boards of Variety Club International in Vancouver and Toronto, The Canadian Culinary Championships and the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation. In 2015, he was working with PFLAG and Qmunity Vancouver, the Canadian Red Cross, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and the BC Chiefs of Police Association.
He received the British Columbia Association of Broadcasts 50 Year Certificate of Service in 2014, and was simultaneously inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. [12]
Shafer was also presented with the 2015 Allan Waters Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award. [13]
Shafer graduated from Simon Fraser University with his MA in 2018 and invited join the Social Justice Institutes PhD program at the University of British Columbia in 2019. He achieved candidacy in 2023 and currently conducting research as part of his dissertation to understand polarization and how humans talk with each other. His research explores how people talk about climate change and its interconnectedness with other social justice issues. He argues that many of these issues sit on the same foundations and that there are tipping points in conversations that open up or shut down how we talk across difference. By talking with experts from different sectors he hopes to learn how they navigate difficult conversations and how to identify these tipping points to change the way humans engage with each other. His interviews can be heard on air at [14] and online at [15]
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