Neil McKenty (born 1924) is an English-Canadian radio and television broadcaster and author.
The son of a hardware store owner, McKenty was raised in Hastings, Ontario, near Peterborough. He was schooled at a Jesuit boarding school in Kingston, Ontario.
He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Canadian history, and the University of Michigan, achieving a master's in communications.
For fifteen years, he...
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Neil McKenty (born 1924) is an English-Canadian radio and television broadcaster and author.
The son of a hardware store owner, McKenty was raised in Hastings, Ontario, near Peterborough. He was schooled at a Jesuit boarding school in Kingston, Ontario.
He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Canadian history, and the University of Michigan, achieving a master's in communications.
For fifteen years, he was a teacher and ordained priest with the Jesuit order, until 1970, when he left to do public relations with the Special Olympics.
In October 1972, he moved from Toronto to Montreal to work as a talk show host for CJAD AM radio. Initially working as the station's editorialist, he later co-hosted a 60-minute phone-in show with Helen Gougeon. In 1977 he began working solo, and his two-hour morning show Exchange almost immediately became the city's top-rated phone-in program. He described Exchange as a radio "town meeting" and "people talking...
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