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Jim Richards (Canadian Broadcaster)
Jim Richards (born January 11, 1966, James Richard McGorty) is a Canadians, Canadian radio personality. Richards studied radio broadcasting at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, Belleville, Ontario. In 1988 he launched his radio career at CJTN-FM, CJTN in Trenton, Ontario, close to Belleville; he also worked at CFXY-FM, CIHI in Fredericton, New Brunswick, CJCH-FM, CJCH in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He hosted a popular morning show at CFJB-FM, CFJB Rock 95 in Barrie, Ontario, north of Toronto, and was nominated for medium-market morning show of the year in 1990. From the early 1990s to 1996, he worked periodic shifts including a Saturday morning show on Toronto sports talk station CJCL (AM), The Fan. Sometime during his early days with The Fan, he was asked to change his name to something "less ethnic" and went with a derivation of his middle name, switching to Jim Richards as his on air name. At the Fan, he gave George Stroumboulopoulos his first exposure as an on-air personalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
