George Stroumboulopoulos
Canadian broadcaster
George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos (, born August 1972) is a Canadian media personality, television host and podcaster. He is one of Canada's most popular broadcasters and best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic. He was also the host and co-executive producer of the CBC Television talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (formerly The Hour) from 2005 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Rogers. From 2009 to 2023, he was a radio host on CBC Music. In 2020, he joined Apple Music Radio as host of a Monday to Thursday live show.
Early life
Stroumboulopoulos was born in August 1972 in Malton, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, to a Greek father from Egypt and a Ukrainian mother. He was raised in Toronto, primarily by his mother and a close-knit extended family. After graduating from Ascension of Our Lord Secondary School, he graduated from the Radio Broadcasting program at Toronto's Humber College in 1993.
Career
Radio
In spring 1993, Stroumboulopoulos worked at rock radio station CKLZ 104.7FM The Lizard in Kelowna, British Columbia for a few months before getting a job offer at the Toronto radio station CJCL, working in talk radio.
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