Lowell Green
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Lowell Green (born 1936, is a Canadian radio personality. He hosts a conservative morning talk show on Ottawa radio station CFRA, and has also syndicated programming to several other Canadian radio stations. He has just reached 50 years of radio broadcasting.
Green was born in the United States to Canadian parents, and emigrated to Canada. He lived with his grandparents for much of his youth.
Green graduated from McDonald Agricultural College (now part of the University of Guelph in 1956. He started his radio career in Brantford, subsequently moving to stations in Sudbury and Montreal. In Montreal, Green won awards for his coverage of the Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia.
Green arrived at CFRA in 1960 as a news and farm reporter. In 1966, he began hosting Greenline, and eventually became the longest-running open line talk show host in North America. He retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.
In 1993, Green returned to CFRA, and has hosted The Lowell Green Show ever since.
Green has been controversial at times. In a 1994 [complaint] to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, listeners alleged that Green had been rude and abusive to a caller who identified herself as a Christian. Although the CBSC determined that Green's conduct had contravened CBSC guidelines around discrimination, they also decided that the station had responded appropriately, and the group did not prescribe any further action.
Green is better known for his countless achievements in the Ottawa Valley and Canada, both local and national, political and non-political.
In September of 2005, Green penned a book titled: The Pork Chop and Other Stories: A Memoir. Before the actual release of this book, pre-order sales exceeded expectations, resulting in a second printing even before the The Pork Chop hit the shelves.
External links
- [Lowell Green show discussion boards at Talk Radio Nation]
- [The Pork Chop And Other Stories: A Memoir at Chapters]
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