Ted Roop is a Canadian radio and media personality, and one of the presenters of ''Roop, Wix and Meg In The Morning'', which has been broadcasting on ''104.1 The Dock ( CICZ-FM)'' since March 3, 2008. Roop is also Director of Programming for The Dock's parent company,

Larche Communications Larche Communications was a Canadian media company, which operated four radio stations in the province of Ontario. The company was named for its president, Paul Larche. Based in Midland, Ontario, Midland, the company began in 1997 when it acquired ...

, which has three other broadcasting licenses.

Childhood and early life

Roop began working as a

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at the age of eight, appearing in more than 30 television and radio commercials, including

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, and McCain French Fries. He also voiced several radio commercials for companies such as Esso and Big Brothers, and worked on several movies, including '' The Last Season'', '' Night Friend'' and an episode of the television series '' Friday The 13th''. Roop's family moved from the west end of Toronto to the Waterdown area when he was beginning high school. He spent his formative years at Waterdown District High School. It was through a high school co-operative education program that he developed his interest in radio, completing a placement at the Mohawk College Radio Station CIOI-FM in his fourth year of high school.

Radio career

After graduating High School, Roop began a two-year radio broadcasting program at

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in the fall of 1996. He graduated from the program in the spring of 1998 and started working for BEA-VER Communications, on CKSY FM95 CKSY-FM on March 2, 1998. He started as the Swing Announcer at CKSY-FM. At the time, BEA-VER Communications owned and operated CKSY-FM and

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, its AM Oldies sister station, from their Chatham, Kent studios, but had an application in progress to the CRTC for a third FM station. When this application was successful, the company opened CKUE-FM in November 1999, with Roop as the Afternoon Drive host, and moving to the morning show in January 2001. In June 2002, Roop was hired to work as the Afternoon Drive host in Midland, Ontario on CICZ-FM. At the time, CICZ-FM was a country music station, KICX 104 FM. In 2004

opened CIKZ-FM in Kitchener—Waterloo. At that time, the KICX 104 FM Program Director was moved to CIKZ-FM to launch the station, at which point Roop was moved to the Morning Show and given the program director title. Roop remained Morning Show host/Program Director on KICX 104 FM until March 2008. During his time in that position, he was named the

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's Music Director Of The Year in 2007, and won the

's Personality Of The Year Award in 2006 and 2007 with his co-host Carey Moran. In March 2008,

moved its country format to its newly acquired

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frequency at CICX-FM, and launched a brand new Classic Rock station on CICZ-FM, now known as 104.1 THE DOCK. Roop said goodbye to his longtime co-host Carey Moran, and moved to Classic Rock, remaining on the 104.1 frequency to launch a new morning show with Meg Whitton and Brian Wicks, both of whom had moved to Midland and decided to stay with

after the sale of CIKZ. Shortly after the launch of the Dock, Roop was named Director of Programming for

. He now oversees the programming, with the help of his KICX PD's Jack Latimer and Trinette Atkinson, DOCK Midland APD Josh Duncan, on CICZ-FM, CICX-FM,

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and Don Vail at CJOS-FM in Owen Sound.

Canadian Country Spotlight

Roop also hosts a weekly, one-hour country music spotlight program called

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, which highlights Canadian country music. It airs weekly on

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stations across Canada. The show launched on Labour Day Weekend 2011, and has since featured Jason McCoy, George Canyon,

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, Paul Brandt and various other well-known figures from Canadian Country.

Personal life

Roop lives with his wife and two children in

, Ontario.

References

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External links

Ted Roop's Official Web Site
at TedRoop.com
Official Web Site of The Canadian Country Spotlight
at canadiancountryspotlight.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roop, Ted 1977 births Canadian male film actors Canadian radio personalities Fanshawe College alumni Living people Male actors from Ontario People from Orillia