Ken Rockburn is a Canadian

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 and television journalist and host. He is most notable for his associations with the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

 and CHEZ-FM

CHEZ-FM

CHEZ-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts classic rock at 106.1 FM in Ottawa. The station uses the brand name CHEZ 106 .-History:...

 radio.

Career history

From the late 1970s until the early 1990s Rockburn served as news director at Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

 radio station CHEZ-FM

CHEZ-FM

CHEZ-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts classic rock at 106.1 FM in Ottawa. The station uses the brand name CHEZ 106 .-History:...

. As news director, he won three national radio awards from ACTRA

ACTRA

The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists is a Canadian labour union representing performers in English-language media. It has 22,000 members working in film, television, radio, and all other recorded media....

. He also hosted a two-hour program on arts and current affairs called Medium Rare

Medium Rare (radio show)

Medium Rare was a Canadian radio program, which aired from 1987 to 1993. Produced by CHEZ-FM in Ottawa, the program was syndicated to several radio stations across Canada....

, which was widely syndicated across Canada. Rockburn's book from this period, Medium Rare: Jamming With Culture was published in 1995.

During 1994 to 1997, Rockburn hosted Rockburn and Company on CBC's Ottawa television station CBOT

CBOT (TV)

CBOT-DT is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television station in Ottawa, Ontario. The station's studios are located in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre.-History:...

. Contemporaneously, as of 1996, on Ottawa's CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...

 station CBO-FM

CBO-FM

CBO-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Ottawa, airing at 91.5 FM, and serves much of Eastern Ontario through a network of relay transmitters.-History:...

, Rockburn hosted All in a Day

All in a Day (radio show)

All in a Day is a Canadian radio program, the regional afternoon program on CBC Radio One's CBO-FM in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario.The program is currently hosted by Alan Neal. Past hosts have included Brent Bambury, Adrian Harewood and Ken Rockburn. The program airs from 3 to 6 p.m...

. Rockburn's tenure on the show continued until 2001, during which the program was consistently ranked number one in its market.

Rockburn joined CPAC in 2001, and developed two shows: Rockburn Presents and Talk Politics. Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews was published in 2007. Rockburn retired from CPAC in 2008.

Since 2009, Rockburn has been collecting material and conducting interviews for a book on the history of Le Hibou Coffee House

Le Hibou Coffee House

Le Hibou Coffee House was an internationally known coffee house established in Ottawa, Canada, operating from 1960 to 1975.- History :Denis Faulkner, an Ottawa francophone, was the founding owner manager from 1960 to 1968. It was during this period that Le Hibou became established as a now famous...

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