Alan Ericson

News Department (1981-1986)
Real name: Alan Buchnea

Alan writes: (August, 2011):

I was a news reader at CFNY starting in 1981. Then the News Director at the time, Rick Charles, decided I'd be a better reporter. I took that as a kick in the face, but it turned out for the best. I left CFNY in 1986 to join CFRB, the "news voice". When I signed up I wanted to go back to using my real name, Alan Buchnea, but they said "No" we're hiring Alan Ericson, one of the best reporters in Toronto, well known as CFNY's main news reporter". So in 1989 I won the National Radio Award (radio version of a Juno) for Best Reporter/Investigative Journalist for private radio. Thank you Rick Charles/CFNY for turning me into a reporter at a station where many people thought news doesn't matter. It did! Too bad I had to go somewhere else to get the award.

My five years at CFNY were the best years of my professional career.

The baseball team, the NY Wankees, was awsome! Thanks Marg Fardella, for organising that.

Right now, I'm working in Hong Kong. After stints at CNBC and CNN, a local TV station, TVB offered me my own show, to be Executive Producer and host. Called Money Magazine. I did that for 10 years. Oh, and I won an Amnesty International Human Rights Award for a show I did in 2001.

Now I'm in charge of the Financial News at TVB. And still anchoring at the whizzened old age of 58.

Last updated: Thursday, August 25, 2011

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