Sheldon Turcott (1936 – February 18, 2000) was a Canadian television journalist and news anchor, best known as a reporter and host on

CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...

for four decades. He was a frequent contributor to '' The National'', working at times as a newsreader, foreign correspondent, and executive producer of the program. From 1985 until his retirement in 1995 he was the regular newsreader on CBC's ''

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'' program.

Greg Quill Gregory Raymond Quill (18 April 19475 May 2013) was an Australian-born musician, singer-songwriter and journalist. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and was an entertainment columnist at the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper from the mid-1980s unt ...

, "Midday news show CBC's tool to grab noontime viewers". ''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...

'', January 6, 1985. For a brief period prior to that, Turcott commuted to Regina each week to anchor CBKT's 6pm newscast, an effort to boost the station's nearly non-existent ratings. He was also host of the quiz series ''

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'', and appeared in the feature film ''

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''.

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* 1936 births 2000 deaths Canadian television news anchors 20th-century Canadian journalists {{canada-journalist-stub