Ross Porter (Canadian broadcaster)
- Ross Porter (Canadian broadcaster)
Ross Porter is a Canadian broadcaster and music writer. Best known as the longtime host and co-creator of the highly rated jazz program "After Hours" on CBC Radio Two and pop culture reporter for CBC TV's The National and Newsworld's On the Arts, he became head of the jazz television channel CoolTV in 2001. He was voted Jazz Broadcaster of the year twice, and received the Canwest Award for Outstanding Contribution to Jazz from his friend and mentor Izzy Asper.
In 2004, he became president and CEO of JAZZ.FM91, a non-profit public radio station in Toronto devoted to jazz programming. In 2005, he created the station's major annual fund raising event, Jazz Lives. The concerts have sold out for the last three years. In the winter of 2006, he rebranded and refocussed JAZZ.FM91's, annual concert series The Sound of Toronto, to the highly popular Sound of Jazz series.
Recently, Porter was responsible for moving the station from the Ryerson campus to its current location in Liberty Village; and, in December 2007, for delivering the most successful BBM book in the history of JAZZ.FM91 (300,000 plus listeners).
Porter also published a consumer guide to jazz recordings, "The Essential Jazz Recordings: 101 CDs", in 2006. In 2007, the book - a best seller - went into its second printing.
External links
* [http://www.jazz.fm JAZZ.FM91 Website]
* [http://www.icebergradio.com/rossporter Audio interview on The Essential Jazz Recordings] recorded in April 2007, Toronto, Canada
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