Norm Perry is a retired broadcast journalist. He worked for

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affiliate CKOY in

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as a reporter and interviewer in the late 1950s with some of his work being picked up by the main network on programs such as ''Assignment''. By the early 1960s he was working for the CBC in Toronto. He moved to CKEY radio in Toronto in the mid-196

and, later in the decade, he moved to

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in Toronto where he hosted a number of programs including the 1968

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Perry's Probe ''Perry's Probe'' was a Canadian half-hour investigative journalism television series, hosted by Norm Perry, which aired on CTV in the 1968-69 television season. The show began on CFTO-TV as a local television series before going national. It aire ...

''. He is best known for having been the longest serving host of ''

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'' from 1974 to 1990. Following his retirement from ''Canada AM'', Perry moved to

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where he was a Calgary-based host.

External links

Broadcasting history.ca article about Norm Perry
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