Bill Carroll is a Canadian broadcast personality and currently the host of The Bill Carroll show from 09:00 to 13:00 on CFRB 1010 in Toronto. He also hosts Sundays from time to time at KFI radio in Los Angeles.
Carroll was born in Scotland and grew up in Coatbridge near Glasgow. He came with his family to Canada in the late 1960s. The family first lived in Don Mills, Ontario in an apartment (later in a townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario), where he...
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Bill Carroll is a Canadian broadcast personality and currently the host of The Bill Carroll show from 09:00 to 13:00 on CFRB 1010 in Toronto. He also hosts Sundays from time to time at KFI radio in Los Angeles.
Carroll was born in Scotland and grew up in Coatbridge near Glasgow. He came with his family to Canada in the late 1960s. The family first lived in Don Mills, Ontario in an apartment (later in a townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario), where he attended Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute, a few years before Mike Myers.
Out of high school in 1980, Carroll moved to New Liskeard, Ontario. "My first job was as news director for the station CJTT. This meant I was also the morning news anchor and the news reporter — I was a one-man department. But it was a great place to learn about broadcast journalism. "I hadn't formally studied journalism, so once I got the job I bought every book on broadcast journalism I could find. At night I would study to be a broadcast journalist, and practice...
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