Fred Richard Patterson, commonly known as Freddie P, is a
Canadian radio personality, best known as co-host with
Howard Glassman of the ''
Humble & Fred'' morning show, which had been heard on
Edge 102,
Mojo 640 and
Mix 99.9
CKFM-FM (''99.9 Virgin Radio'') is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting on 99.9 MHz in Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned by Bell Media. The station airs a Top 40/CHR format, and is the flagship of Canada's "Virgin Radio" stations. CKFM's ...
in
Toronto.
Career
Fred Patterson has been a national radio host for
CKFH (Toronto), CHIC (Brampton) and co-host of The Humble and Fred Morning Show at
Edge 102,
Mojo 640 and
Mix 99.9
CKFM-FM (''99.9 Virgin Radio'') is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting on 99.9 MHz in Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned by Bell Media. The station airs a Top 40/CHR format, and is the flagship of Canada's "Virgin Radio" stations. CKFM's ...
in Toronto. A former sports director at
Edge 102, he was heard as an occasional co-host of The Bill Watters show on
AM640
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and is a frequent guest on CH TV's Live at 5:30. He served as Program Director of Corus' Peterborough radio stations from 2008 to 2011.
Patterson's longest continuous on-air job was the ''
Humble & Fred Morning Show'' which he and
Howard Glassman started in 1989 before Glassman left
CFNY for
CKFM-FM
CKFM-FM (''99.9 Virgin Radio'') is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting on 99.9 MHz in Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned by Bell Media. The station airs a Top 40/CHR format, and is the flagship of Canada's "Virgin Radio" stations. CKFM's ...
in May 1991 (which became ''Mix 99.9'' later that year), only to return 19 months later at the end 1992. In April 2001, the team moved to
Mojo 640 before leaving for
Mix 99.9
CKFM-FM (''99.9 Virgin Radio'') is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting on 99.9 MHz in Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned by Bell Media. The station airs a Top 40/CHR format, and is the flagship of Canada's "Virgin Radio" stations. CKFM's ...
in August 2003. Patterson was relieved of his duties at Mix 99.9 in August 2005,
An Interview with Fred Patterson
/ref> though he remained under contract. Glassman hosted the show alone for only about a year before he too was let go.
On October 15, 2011 Humble and Fred began a weekday podcast. After airing all or portions of the podcast show on various terrestrial radio stations in southern Ontario between 2012 and 2015, ''Humble & Fred'' began airing in the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. slot on Sirius XM
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's newly re-branded Canada Laughs
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channel beginning May 9, 2013 in addition to still offering a podcast version of the show online.
References
External links
Humble and Fred Radio
Official site
Canadian radio hosts
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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