Sad to hear that Beverly Thomson has passed away at the age of 61. The veteran news anchor and Order of Canada recipient began her career as a local reporter at CFTO in Toronto. In 1997 she was recruited to the national desk at Global News. In 2003, CTV wanted her to replace Lisa LaFlamme
On Thursday, when the news broke, there was a temptation to blame the sudden shuttering of Canada AM to loosening Canadian content requirement requirements. These were implemented last year by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission. One of the results of that “Let’s Talk TV” pow-wow in Ottawa was a gradual reduction in the number of hours Canadian Over-The-Air
Looking good: Twelve former Canada AM co-hosts join today’s trio Got up crazy early this morning to attend a salute to one of Canada’s longest-running TV traditions–Canada AM.The series marks 40 years on the air this month. There must have been something in the water that fall of 1972: not only did Canada AM launch,