- Alan Cross
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Name = Alan Cross
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URL = [http://ongoinghistory.com Ongoing History Of New Music]Alan Cross is a Canadian radio broadcaster and a writer on music. The host of 102.1 The Edge's most famous program, "
The Ongoing History of New Music ", he also served as program director of the station from 2004 to 2008.Originally from the small prairie town of
Stonewall, Manitoba , Cross began his radio career with theUniversity of Winnipeg 'scampus radio station, CKUW, in 1980. He subsequently joined radio stations in Selkirk, Kenora and Brandon before returning to Winnipeg's CHIQ. He then joined CFNY on October 3, 1986 as an overnight announcer. A point of trivia: Cross started work at the same instant as the official sod-turning ceremony for the construction of theSkyDome .In 1989, Cross became the station's afternoon
drive time host. The following year, he moved to the 10 a.m.-2 p.m. slot; in 1993, he returned to afternoon drive and remained there until 2001. Beginning in February, 1993, he also became host of "The Ongoing History" which has been running continuously ever since.Cross left CFNY in 2001 to become program director of CJXY in Hamilton (then known as Y95 and subsequently as Y108), although he continued to host "The Ongoing History". He subsequently returned to CFNY as program director in mid-January 2004, remaining in that role until moving to Corus Entertainment's interactive media division, Splice Media, in 2008.
Cross is one of the very few personalities from the 1980s, CFNY's most influential period, still heard on the station today. He married Mary Ellen Beninger, a CFNY colleague, in 1990. She is currently a morning newscaster at CFTR in Toronto.
Books
* "
The Alternative Music Almanac " (1995)
* "The Making of Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral " (1996)
* "" (1997)
* "" (2000)External links
* [http://www.edge.ca/DJsandShows/AlanCross.aspx Alan Cross at Edge 102]
* [http://www.spiritofradio.ca/Personalities.asp?Show=Cross%2C+Alan Alan Cross at SpiritOfRadio]
* [http://www.cfox.com/StationShared/OHNM.aspx Ongoing History of New Music at 99.3 CFOX]
* [http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=Aiac7UMpZxyAJH_cfVYn9GWx.Bd.;_ylv=3?show=H02FU9MKaa Alan Cross on Yahoo Answers]Persondata
NAME = Cross, Alan
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PLACE OF BIRTH = Stonewall,Manitoba ,Canada
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