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
If you’ve got 4 minutes and 10 seconds to spare, you can check out my appearance Wednesday on CTV’s Canada AM. Please look past the bleary eyes and vacant stare; I’m fresh off a punishing winter TCA press tour crammed with “Too Much TV” that left colleagues staggering into Uber rides to the airport. I