Ken Rockburn

Ken Rockburn

Ken Rockburn is a Canadian radio and television journalist and host. He is currently the host of the nightly political newsmagazine "Talk Politics" on CPAC and is an orphan sponsor with Help Lesotho.

Career history

Before joining CPAC, Rockburn had a career in public and private radio and television broadcasting. This is where he made his mark as a public access journalist.

From the late 1970s until the early 1990s he served as news director at Ottawa radio station CHEZ-FM. As news director, he won three national radio awards from ACTRA. He also hosted a two-hour program on arts and current affairs called "Medium Rare", which was widely syndicated across Canada.

From fall 1994 until spring 1997, he hosted "Rockburn and Company" on CBC's Ottawa television station CBOT.

On Ottawa's CBC Radio One station CBO-FM, Rockburn hosted "All in a Day" from March 1996 [cite web
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