Arvel Gray is a Canadian-born CBC Manitoba personality who anchored the local 30 minute television news program ''News at Noon'' until January 1985, when CBC's '' Midday'' program took its place.

Biography

Gray has a sister,

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, who was a Liberal MLA in the 1980s. Gray became 24Hours' weatherperson in the summer of 1977. Previous to this she worked briefly at

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TV 4 Fargo as weather person while studying theatre and speech at

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in 1976. Arvel was news anchor for ''24Hours LateNight'' in the 1980s as alternate to

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. She left CBWT in January 1995 to become a program jockey with then fledgling WTN, returning to CBC Manitoba after WTN was sold to

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in 2001. Gray has written for ''Manitoba Gardener'', ''Ontario Gardener'' and ''Alberta Gardener''. She was host o
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s ''Math Works Tv'' for the 2003-04 television season.

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CBC Manitoba
Canadian television news anchors Living people Minnesota State University Moorhead alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women television journalists {{Canada-tv-bio-stub