Judy Maddren is a Canadian radio announcer who works primarily for CBC Radio.
She first joined CBC in 1972, and worked as a consumer affairs reporter; at that time, CBC was not hiring women as announcers. When this policy changed, in 1975, Maddren was the third woman to be hired. [1]
From 1993 to 2009, she hosted or co-hosted CBC Radio's national morning newscast, World Report.
She is the sister-in-law of Peter Elliott.
On March 17, 2009, she announced that she was retiring from the CBC; her last broadcast was on World Report on March 27, 2009. She continues to guest host Rewind on CBC Radio One for Michael Enright along with fellow guest hosts and producers Marieke Meyer and Jeff Goodes.
As It Happens is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. Its 50th anniversary was celebrated on-air on November 16, 2018. It has been one of the most popular and acclaimed shows on CBC Radio.
The National is a Canadian national television news program which serves as the flagship broadcast for the English-language news division of CBC News by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It reports on major Canadian and international news stories, airing on CBC Television stations nationwide Sunday to Friday at 10:00 p.m. local time.
CBWT-DT is a CBC Television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It has common ownership with Ici Radio-Canada Télé station CBWFT-DT. The two stations share studios on Portage Avenue and Young Street in Downtown Winnipeg; CBWT-DT's transmitter is located near Red Coat Trail/Highway 2 in Macdonald.
Barbara Budd is a Canadian actress, narrator and radio announcer. Between 1993 and April 30, 2010, she was the co-host of CBC Radio One's As It Happens.
Jan Tennant is a Canadian television journalist, news anchor, and announcer.
Peter Elliott is a Canadian priest. He is the former (retired) rector of Christ Church Cathedral and Dean of New Westminster in the Anglican Church of Canada. Elliott grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario. In 1976 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and philosophy from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Subsequently, he attended and graduated from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1981 he was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Niagara. Prior to coming to Vancouver he was Director of Ministries in Church and Society with the Anglican Church of Canada. In 1994, Elliott was made rector of Christ Church Cathedral and Dean of New Westminster. He retired in October 2019 after 25 years.
Homer Durward Kirby, was an American television host and announcer. He is best remembered for The Garry Moore Show in the 1950s and Candid Camera, which he co-hosted with Allen Funt from 1961 through 1966.
Bill Guest (1928-1985) was best known as quizmaster of the Winnipeg edition of Reach for the Top from 1962–1985 and quizmaster of the national finals between 1969 and 1985 when the show aired on CBC Television.
Daniel Shulman is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet as well as the American network ESPN.
Donald Rae Wittman was a Canadian sportscaster.
Nora Young is a Canadian broadcaster and writer. She was the first host of CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera, from 1994 to 2002. Since 2007, she has been the host of Spark on CBC Radio One.
Rosemary Thompson is Vice President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, which publishes Canadian Geographic, the country’s #1 magazine online and in print with 4.3M readers each month. CanGeo Education has built a network of 28,000 educators that work with its free learning materials in the classroom. She is a former senior executive with the National Gallery of Canada, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Canada's National Arts Centre. She worked as deputy bureau chief of the parliamentary bureau for CTV News. She was a reporter and frequent guest host on CTV programs including Question Period and Mike Duffy Live. A veteran political correspondent, she covered 7 election campaigns in the United States, Quebec and Canada.
Matt Shepard is an American sportscaster. Shepard was the television play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers on Bally Sports Detroit from 2019 to 2023. He has also covered professional, collegiate and high school sports on both television and radio in Metro Detroit since the 1990s.
Paul Romanuk is a Toronto sportscaster and writer. He was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
World Report is a Canadian radio news program, which airs weekdays at 5, 6, 7 and 8 AM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 6, 7, 8 and 9 AM, on CBC Radio One. It currently lasts 10 minutes and focuses on major national and international news, allowing the local and regional programming during those timeslots to primarily focus their content on their own regions. The program's current weekday anchor as of November 21, 2022, is Marcia Young, and the weekend anchor is John Northcott. The programme began in 1958 as The World at Eight and was called The World at Seven, The World at Eight or The World at Nine, depending on the hour and time zone in which it was heard, until October 1982 when it was renamed World Report.
Todd Harry Kalas is an American sportscaster, employed since 2017 as a television play-by-play announcer for Houston Astros baseball.
The following is a list of commentators to be featured in CBC Television's Olympic Games coverage.
Susan Ormiston is a Canadian television journalist, correspondent for CBC Television's The National and guest host for several CBC radio and television programs. She has covered prominent events including the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994 in the first free elections in South Africa.
Maggie Morris Smolensky was a Canadian radio and television personality of the 1960s best known as a panelist on the CBC Television show Flashback and as one of the first women on the CBC English language announce staff.