....now everyone gets to hear C Gretzinger while she takes a break from
the BC 4-6 block. She's hosting The Currant ;) I'm sure she thinks
her stuttering and stumbling is her best interviewing technique
because it was on overdrive this morning. Annette
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When? I see Jim Brown for Monday Bastile Day on the
Currant Bun.
She is doing her dodging and weaving on the Saturday
The House with a supposed profile on Vancouver life.
Gretsinger should never have gone in front of the mike.
Another Rye High grad slithers up to the biggish time.
Linkname: CBC British Columbia - The Afternoon Show (Vancouver
area)
URL:
http://vancouver.cbc.ca/afternoonshow/aftshowbios.html
[kathryn.jpg] Kathryn Gretsinger:
Kathryn Gretsinger's entire journalism career has been with
the CBC. Before taking over
as host of THE AFTERNOON SHOW in February 1997 she served for
six years as a writer and
broadcaster on THE EARLY EDITION. That stint was preceded by
two years at CBC Radio in
Edmonton working as an associate producer. She began her
career as a student in Toronto
working as a Researcher for CBC Newsworld and CBC Radio.
Kathryn has also done contract
work in current affairs and on educational issues with BC's
Knowledge Network
Kathryn's documentary A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD won the 1999 Best
Network Radio Feature
category at the Radio and Television News Directors
Association awards. Presented in
Ottawa in June.
The documentary is the story of a group of Chinese soccer
players. They formed a team
in 1919, went on to play in the "mainstream" league and ended
up winning some major
tournaments. This was the Chinese boys first chance to compete
on a level playing
field. Before the team they were treated as outsiders, second
class citizens in
Vancouver.
Kathryn is most proud of the fact that the same piece won the
Jack Webster award for
Best Radio feature in 1999.
Kathryn is also known for her work detailing the lives of
British Columbia's most
disadvantaged people. An investigative series focusing on the
lives of people with
mental illness called BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS earned Kathryn
special recognition from
the Canadian Mental Health Association was a Jack Webster
Award finalist. Also in the
running for a Webster Award was Kathryn's documentary
detailing the demise of Hastings
Street in Vancouver titled VANCOUVER'S BROKEN HEART. Kathryn
has also been recognized
by the B.C. Paraplegic Association for bringing awareness to
the their concerns.
Born in Vancouver in 1964, Kathryn grew up in Tsawwassen and
graduated from South Delta
Secondary in 1982. Kathryn earned her Bachelor of Journalism
degree from Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute (now Polytechnical University) in
Toronto. She is the mother of
an "about to be four" year old daughter, Zoe. She lives in
Vancouver with her child and
partner Lionel.