John Moore (broadcaster)
Encyclopedia
John Sanford Moore better known as John Moore, is a Canadian
radio
and television
broadcaster, film critic, actor
, voice actor
and comedian
. He works for CFRB 1010
in Toronto
, Ontario
.
, and grew up in Notre Dame de Grace, a predominantly English area in Montreal
, Quebec
. He attended West Hill High School, where he served as student body president. Moore began his post-secondary studies at Vanier College
. While attending university he taught pre-school and worked in corporate public relations
. He graduated with dual degrees in Communications at Concordia University
, and from the School of Community and Public Affairs.
in Montreal. He was also active in improv, being a founding member Montreal's On The Spot players.
Since 1999, Moore has worked as an entertainment reporter and film reviewer on the morning show at radio station
CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario usually Mondays to Fridays at 7:50 a.m. Not long after the 2003 departure of John Oakley to competing station CFMJ, he began hosting The John Moore Show during afternoon drive time
. Moore is an entertainment reporter for CFRB's sister station
CJAD. In the fall of 2009 it was announced that John would replace Bill Carroll as the morning host on Newstalk 1010.
Moore in the Morning began airing on October 5, 2009. The show features a number of contributors including: sports anchor Mike Toth
, National Post
columnist Christie Blatchford
, Maclean's
National Editor Andrew Coyne
, movie critic Richard Crouse
, and business reporter Rubina Ahmed-Haq. The show is produced by Julia Franceschini and Mackay Taggart. The technical producer is Robert Turner. Moore in the Morning airs weekday mornings from 5:30am–9:00am.
He has previously worked for Radio-Canada
, French language radio and hosted a television fishing
show. Moore also hosted Mystery Ink, a show about mystery fiction
that aired frequently on the Mystery TV
specialty television channel. Moore was also the host of Escalator Movie Reviews on Global TV
. Moore is also the host of Guy Stuff, a panel discussion program on mentv
and FOX Sports World Canada
.
He has also been working as a voice artist. He has done voices for the animated television series Ripley's Believe It or Not!
, The Little Lulu Show
, Arthur
, A Miss Mallard Mystery
, Caillou
, Flight Squad
, Jim Button
, Animal Crackers
, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
, The Triplets
, Team S.O.S. and Potatoes and Dragons
and three video games including Wizardry 8
, Splinter Cell
and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Moore considers his most memorable news reporting experience to have occurred years after he had given up hard news coverage when he found himself in New York City
on September 11
. In 2006, Moore appeared as a contestant on the game show
, Jeopardy!
He placed last, finishing with a negative amount of money. On November 26, 2007, The John Moore Show did a segment in which he questioned the factual accuracy of Wikipedia
.
Moore lives in Toronto and Montreal. He has a column in the National Post
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
broadcaster, film critic, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, voice actor
Voice acting
Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...
and comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
. He works for CFRB 1010
CFRB (AM)
CFRB, Newstalk 1010, is an AM radio clear-channel station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, broadcasting on 1010 kHz, with a shortwave radio simulcast by CFRX-SW on 6.070 MHz. The station broadcasts a mix of talk and news throughout the day from its transmitter located in the community of...
in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
.
Early life
Moore was born in Montreal, QuebecQuebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, and grew up in Notre Dame de Grace, a predominantly English area in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. He attended West Hill High School, where he served as student body president. Moore began his post-secondary studies at Vanier College
Vanier College
Vanier College is an English-language public college located in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1970 as the second English-language public college of Quebec's public college system...
. While attending university he taught pre-school and worked in corporate public relations
Public relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
. He graduated with dual degrees in Communications at Concordia University
Concordia University
Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...
, and from the School of Community and Public Affairs.
Career
Moore launched his career in radio journalism as a reporter at CHOM-FMCHOM-FM
CHOM-FM is an English language radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Owned and operated by Astral Media, it broadcasts on 97.7 MHz from the Mount Royal candelabra tower, with an effective radiated power of 41,200 watts using an omnidirectional antenna.The station has a mainstream rock...
in Montreal. He was also active in improv, being a founding member Montreal's On The Spot players.
Since 1999, Moore has worked as an entertainment reporter and film reviewer on the morning show at radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario usually Mondays to Fridays at 7:50 a.m. Not long after the 2003 departure of John Oakley to competing station CFMJ, he began hosting The John Moore Show during afternoon drive time
Drive time
Drive time is the daypart analog to prime time for radio broadcasting. It consists of the morning hours when listeners wake up, get ready, and/or head to work or school, and the afternoon hours when they are heading home and before their evening meal. These are the periods where the number of...
. Moore is an entertainment reporter for CFRB's sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
CJAD. In the fall of 2009 it was announced that John would replace Bill Carroll as the morning host on Newstalk 1010.
Moore in the Morning began airing on October 5, 2009. The show features a number of contributors including: sports anchor Mike Toth
Mike Toth
Mike Toth is a Canadian sports anchor, formerly on Rogers Sportsnet Sportsnet Connected and with the Fan 590 in Toronto. He grew up in Bassano, Alberta. He was previously a sports anchor for TSN's SportsCentre...
, National Post
National Post
The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...
columnist Christie Blatchford
Christie Blatchford
Christie Blatchford is a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She has published four non-fiction books.-Life and work:...
, Maclean's
Maclean's
Maclean's is a Canadian weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.-History:Founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, a 43-year-old trade magazine publisher who purchased an advertising agency's in-house...
National Editor Andrew Coyne
Andrew Coyne
James Andrew Coyne is the national editor for Maclean's, a weekly national newsmagazine in Canada. Previously, he was a columnist with the National Post and an editor-in-chief of the University of Manitoba's newspaper, The Manitoban.-Background:Coyne was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Hope...
, movie critic Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a television personality and host on Canadian television and news. He currently hosts In Short on Bravo!, and was the host of Reel to Real, Canada's longest-running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is the regular film critic...
, and business reporter Rubina Ahmed-Haq. The show is produced by Julia Franceschini and Mackay Taggart. The technical producer is Robert Turner. Moore in the Morning airs weekday mornings from 5:30am–9:00am.
He has previously worked for Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...
, French language radio and hosted a television fishing
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....
show. Moore also hosted Mystery Ink, a show about mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
that aired frequently on the Mystery TV
Mystery TV
Mystery TV is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel which presents movies and television series of the mystery and suspense genres...
specialty television channel. Moore was also the host of Escalator Movie Reviews on Global TV
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
. Moore is also the host of Guy Stuff, a panel discussion program on mentv
Mentv
The Cave is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel dedicated to airing lifestyle and entertainment programming aimed at men. It is currently owned by Groupe TVA and Shaw Media.-History:...
and FOX Sports World Canada
Fox Sports World Canada
Fox Sports World Canada is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Shaw Media. FSWC's programming primarily features association football with select programming on other world sports such as rugby....
.
He has also been working as a voice artist. He has done voices for the animated television series Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ripley's Believe It or Not (TV series)
Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a documentary television series based on the newspaper feature that aired in three incarnations.The first Believe It or Not TV series, a live show hosted by Robert L. Ripley, premiered on NBC television March 1, 1949...
, The Little Lulu Show
The Little Lulu Show
The Little Lulu Show is an animated television series, based on the Marjorie Henderson Buell comic book character Little Lulu. The show was produced by CINAR Animation after Marge's death in 1993, and aired on HBO Family and Cartoon Network in the United States and on , CTV, and the Family Channel...
, Arthur
Arthur (TV series)
Arthur is an American/Canadian animated educational television series for children, created by Cookie Jar Group and WGBH for the Public Broadcasting Service...
, A Miss Mallard Mystery
A Miss Mallard Mystery
A Miss Mallard Mystery is an animated mystery series for children produced by Cinar and Teletoon. The premise of the series and episodes are based on the books written by Robert Quackenbush. Each show focuses on Miss Mallard and her nephew Willard Widgeon as they visit various places around the...
, Caillou
Caillou
Caillou is a Canadian children's television show based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version began with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story about the book...
, Flight Squad
Flight Squad
Flight Squad is a Canadian animated television series produced by CINAR in 1998.-Plot:A team of daredevil pilots form the Flight Squad: Dan, an ex-fighter pilot and former member of the Canadian secret service, Tina, Alex, Jeff and his sister Emma, his young teenager friends, the indispensable Max...
, Jim Button
Jim Button
Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button , is considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware . As an IBM employee, he wrote a program to help with a local church congregation. When demand for his program consumed too much of his time, he quit IBM and created Buttonware...
, Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers (TV series)
The Animal Crackers is a 1997 television series produced by Cinar, and association with Alphanim, about a group of animals that live in a fictional jungle called Freeborn. It is based on the comic strip Animal Crackers...
, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures is an animated TV series that aired on HBO from March 1, 1998 to early 2001. The show follows the adventures of two mice, Emily and her cousin Alexander, who go on adventures around the world in the early 20th century, usually to stop the evil rat...
, The Triplets
The Triplets
The Triplets are three fictional characters created by Catalan illustrator Roser Capdevila.The Triplets were created in 1983, based on Capdevila's own daughters, three actual triplets born in 1969. The stories were immediately successful and began publishing in many countries...
, Team S.O.S. and Potatoes and Dragons
Potatoes and Dragons
Potatoes and Dragons is an animated series produced by Alphanim and Canadian animation company Cinar . It was formerly broadcast in the United States until late September 2010 on This TV.- Characters :King Hugo III...
and three video games including Wizardry 8
Wizardry 8
Wizardry 8 is the eighth and final title in the Wizardry series of computer role-playing games by Sir-Tech. It is the third in the Dark Savant trilogy, which includes Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant...
, Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels. The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is presented as a highly-trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon"...
and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Moore considers his most memorable news reporting experience to have occurred years after he had given up hard news coverage when he found himself in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
on September 11
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
. In 2006, Moore appeared as a contestant on the game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
He placed last, finishing with a negative amount of money. On November 26, 2007, The John Moore Show did a segment in which he questioned the factual accuracy of Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
.
Moore lives in Toronto and Montreal. He has a column in the National Post
National Post
The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...
.