Brad Giffen is a retired Canadian news anchor who has worked on television in both Canada and the United States. Over his broadcasting career he has also worked as a radio personality, disc jockey, VJ, television reporter, television producer and voice-over artist.

Broadcasting career

Giffen studied at the Poynter Institute for Advanced Journalism Study.Brad Giffen's bio
on CTV News Channel's website Last retrieved Aug 4, 2010 In the late 1980s he was a broadcaster on

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radio station in

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, Canada. He previously was John Majhor's successor veejay on

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program '' Toronto Rocks''."Viewers invited to box with Battered Brian", ''Toronto Star'', Nov 2, 1990, pg D16 and he hosted the

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battle of the bands competition ''

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''. In 1990, Giffen pivoted to news journalism and became a reporter for CFTO's nightly news program ''World Beat News'' (later rebranded as ''CFTO News'' in early 1998, and ''CTV News'' in 2005). In 1993, Giffen moved to the

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and became co-anchor of the nightly news on the

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KSTU KSTU (channel 13) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company alongside Provo-licensed KUPX-TV (channel 16), an independent station. KSTU's stud ...

, in

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. Giffen left that post in 1995 to accept a tv news anchor-reporter position in New Orleans.Pierce, Scott D. "FOX 13 HIRES BOB EVANS AS ITS NEW CO-ANCHORMAN", ''Deseret News'', Aug 30, 1995
Last retrieved Aug 4, 2010 Giffen anchored

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until 2002. While in New Orleans he also hosted and produced the program ''ABC26 News This Week''. From 2003 to 2008 he anchored the 5:30PM newscast at ABC affiliate

WWSB WWSB (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Sarasota, Florida, United States, serving the Suncoast portion of the Tampa Bay market as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by Gray Media, WWSB maintains studios on 10th Street in the Rosemary Dist ...

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. Giffen returned to Canada in 2008 to work as a news presenter for CTV News Channel. He retired from news broadcasting in 2018 to become a full-time

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working under the professional name Brad Avenyou.

Personal life

Giffen has two children Ajala and Jordan.

Awards

Giffen was awarded "Best In-Depth News Reporting" by the Utah Broadcaster's Association and "Best Newscast with Special Distinction" by the Louisiana Broadcaster's Association.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giffen, Brad Journalists from Toronto Canadian radio personalities Canadian video jockeys Canadian television news anchors Living people 20th-century Canadian journalists 21st-century Canadian journalists Year of birth missing (living people)