Pay Chen (born August 12, 1976) is a Canadian television host, currently based in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada.
Chen grew up in
Halifax and
Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia
Beaver Bank is a suburban community northeast of Lower Sackville on the Beaver Bank Road ( Route 354) in Nova Scotia, Canada, within the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is about 35 kilometres from the City of Halifax.
History
Believed to be n ...
. She moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson University, later working in writing and production roles for television series produced by
Treehouse TV
Treehouse TV is a Canadian English-language specialty channel for preschoolers aged 2 to 5 that was launched in 1997. Its name comes from YTV's former preschool block, " The Treehouse". The channel is owned by YTV Canada, Inc., a subsidiary of ...
,
YTV, and
TVOntario
TVO Media Education Group (often abbreviated as TVO and stylized on-air as tvo) is a publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario ...
. She then switched to Toronto's OMNI Television, where she worked for seven years producing and hosting paid informational and lifestyle segments, as well as a series of fact segments.
In 2009, she joined
Citytv Winnipeg
CHMI-DT (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, broadcasting the Citytv network to the Winnipeg area. Owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media, the station has studios at 8 Forks Market Road (nea ...
, where she co-hosted
Breakfast Television Winnipeg. Starting alongside
Jon Ljungberg
Jon Ljungberg is a Winnipeg television personality and comedian, most known as the host of ''Breakfast Television'' (formerly ''The Big Breakfast''), on Citytv Winnipeg.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ljungberg holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Deg ...
, she replaced Heather Steele, who moved elsewhere on the station. She also wrote a food column for
Metro Winnipeg. Upon leaving Breakfast in late 2011, she moved back to Toronto, where she can now be found hosting her own radio show on Newstalk 1010.
Chen also appears on
Breakfast Television Toronto
Breakfast television (Europe, Canada, and Australia) or morning show (United States) is a type of news or infotainment television programme that broadcasts live in the morning (typically scheduled between 5:00 and 10:00a.m., or if it is a loc ...
.
Her brother is a member of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...
.
Filmography
* Host, ''bio blast'' programming block (
Biography Channel Canada)
* Poetry segment, ''4 Square''
* GNN News Anchor, ''
Dark Matter
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not ab ...
''
* ''
Hi Opie!
''Hi Opie!'' is a Canadian preschool show that premiered on September 1, 2014 on TVOKids and also airs on Knowledge Network and City Saskatchewan.
The series was renewed in 2015 for a second season. Season 2 began airing September 7, 2015 on TVO ...
''
References
External links
Official WebsiteCitytv Winnipeg: Pay Chen*
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Canadian television hosts
Living people
Canadian people of Taiwanese descent
1976 births