Tommy Schnurmacher is a
Canadian
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former
radio talk-show host,
journalist
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and political commentator. He was the host of ''"The Tommy Schnurmacher Show"'' on
CJAD-AM in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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. From 1996 to 2017 he hosted a
talk show
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airing weekday mornings from 9 o'clock until noon on CJAD, and continues to occasionally return as a guest commentator.
He won a Gold Ribbon Award in 1997 from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters for a bilingual open-line show he hosted with
Gilles Proulx.
He also has hosted a cross-country radio show with former Prime Minister
Kim Campbell
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.
References
Filmography
See also
Talk Radio Tommy
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Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian talk radio hosts
Canadian columnists
Canadian male journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Hungarian emigrants to Canada
Hungarian people of Jewish descent
McGill University alumni