Ken Rockburn (born 1947) is a

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radio and television journalist and host. He is most noted for his associations with the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel ( CPAC), the

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and

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radio.

Career history

From the late 1970s until the early 1990s Rockburn served as news director at

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radio station

. As news director, he won three national radio awards from

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. He also hosted a two-hour program on arts and current affairs called ''

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'', which was widely syndicated across Canada. Rockburn's book from this period, ''Medium Rare: Jamming With Culture'' was published in 1995. During 1994 to 1997, Rockburn hosted ''Rockburn and Company'' on CBC's Ottawa television station CBOT. Contemporaneously, as of 1996, on Ottawa's

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station CBO-FM, Rockburn hosted ''

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''. Rockburn's tenure on the show continued until 2001, during which the program was consistently ranked number one in its market. Rockburn joined CPAC in 2001, and developed two shows: ''Rockburn Presents'' and ''Talk Politics''. ''Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews'' was published in 2007. Rockburn retired from CPAC in 2008.CPAC Announces Departure of Host Ken Rockburn
News Release, May 26, 2008; www.cpac.ca. In 2015, Rockburn published the book ''We Are as the Times Are'', a history of

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