News1130

Born and raised on the Lower Mainland, Jill graduated from BCIT's Radio Broadcasting Program in 2007.  Soon after graduation, she finally decide to leave the Vancouver area, working as a news reporter in the Kootenays.  She joined the News1130 team as a writer in February 2008 and is glad to be back in Vancouver, despite all the rain.  On her time off, Jill loves to take advantage of the amazing snowboarding conditions offered locally.  She also enjoys all things music, including the piano, which she used to teach.

Connie joined News 1130 as mid-day editor in November 2007 following stints as an anchor, reporter and host at CKNW, CFCW Edmonton and the GoldenWest Broadcasting network in Southern Manitoba.
This prairie girl enjoys Vancouver's mild climes, and is a devotee of John Fluevog cowboy boots and vinyl records.

Erin Loxam is finishing her broadcast journalism diploma at BCIT by working at News1130. She was brought into the newsroom as an intern in late 2007 and hasn't left yet. Erin is originally from Edmonton where she has a degree in Economics from the UofA. She travelled after University before settling in Vancouver. In her spare time, Erin enjoys photography and sports of all kinds.

Jason Benner graduated from BCIT in 2003. He started off in the radio business in Kamloops and Merritt before he made his way to News1130. He likes all sports including soccer, but considers hockey to be his favorite. Besides dishing up the latest in sports news, Jason is also a trained chef.

Reporter and anchor Shane Bigham has been with News1130 since 2001. A graduate of the Columbia Academy broadcasting program in Vancouver, Shane began his career in Port Hardy in 1997.

Tom has worked in radio and TV since 1969. He has done pretty much everything in the industry, including sales. Among the highlights of his career are covering Stanley Cup finals, the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and the final journey of the Rick Hansen world tour.

Kattie left her hometown of Dawson Creek, with big dreams of appearing on Hockey Night in Canada alongside Don Cherry.  She soon found out that you needed to love ALL sports to make it in the world of Sportscasting  and she graduated from the Broadcasting Program at Mount Royal College with a new found love of radio.  Kattie has worked both on-air and behind the scenes in many different markets including Calgary, Grande Prarie, Fort Nelson, Fort St John and Olds before moving to Vancouver in 2005.  She is now the Marketing & Promotions Director with News1130.  Kattie loves trying new things and is currently training for her first ever ½ Marathon

Russ Byth has held many jobs in broadcasting since 1979, and a few times, changing them was HIS decision! Russ did the first Business Report when News1130 went on the air in 1996 and has been running with the 'bulls' and 'bears' ever since. Broadcasting from the affectionately named 'Business Hut,' he takes pleasure in breaking down so-called biz-speak to bring morning listeners the latest from around the world. Russ also handles the morning news and business updates for the 104.9 Clear FM Morning Show with Charlee Morgan, where every now and then he might even let loose with an opinion!

Ami Catriona is happy to be at News1130.  It rounds out her triple threat of storytelling.  Ami multitasks in radio, TV and film.  In addition to developing web media, Ami is currently working on her second feature documentary.  Ami loves llamas.

Afternoon drive editor Bruce Claggett is a BCIT journalism graduate and former faculty instructor who started his career as a summer announcer and feature reporter at Mountain FM in Squamish back in 1986. Since that time, he has been heard as a newscaster and reporter at CKCQ Quesnel, CFVR Abbotsford and CKNW Vancouver. He has also worked in the film industry, taught high school in Vancouver and earned degrees from UBC in Education and Geography. In 2006, he received a Jack Webster Foundation Poynter Institute Fellowship.

Our Community Reporter, Jeremy has held a variety of other positions at News1130 including technical director, entertainment specialist, and anchor. Jeremy is also a familiar face in the local world of theatre. He has earned critical acclaim in shows such as Cabaret and Miss Saigon at the Arts Club, as well as Brigadoon and The Secret Garden at the Gateway Theatre.  Join Jeremy for News1130 In The Community every Saturday and Sunday.

Richard is a veteran of the Lower Mainland radio and TV news scene, starting in the 1970s. He has been a reporter, anchor, news director, talk show host and editorialist. Richard joined News1130 when it went on the air in 1996, as an editor. He became a business editor in 1997, left broadcasting in 2000 and rejoined News1130 in the Business Centre in 2004.

Twenty-eight years ago she was sitting in a boring university lecture wondering what to do with the rest of her life. Two weeks later she was in a Radio Broadcasting course at a Community college. She found her calling! JACQUIE has worked in Calgary and Toronto as morning show co-host and news anchor. Now she's the Program Director/News Director at News1130. She says there's no shortage of stress, no day that's without challenge, and she still loves going to work every morning.

Adam is an overnight anchor who enjoys working on his communications degree during the day. He grew up in the interior of the province in the little town of Logan Lake. Adam came to the big city in 2001 to take the Broadcast Journalism program at BCIT and fell in love with Vancouver. He started out operating, producing and reporting for TV, before getting hired on as a reporter at News1130 in 2004. Adam also does some voice acting and TV commercial work. When he finds time for anything else, Adam likes to go hunting in the fall or you can find him up in the North Shore mountains snowboarding or freeride mountain biking.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Reaon came to News1130 in 2002 after studying philosophy and English at SFU, and graduating near the top of his class in BCIT's Broadcast Journalism program. After a couple of years on the weekend and evening beat, he was prodded into taking a job on the morning show and now gets up before most people his age are even going to bed. His strengths are reporting on crime, politics and international affairs, but he also does double duty as News1130's technology reporter. As well, he often fills in at the anchor desk. When he's not at the station, Reaon enjoys movies, video games, reading, biking, playing the guitar and entertaining friends at the "Chateau Ford."

Irfaan joined News1130 as a traffic anchor in 2007. He began his career working at Corus Radio and then jumped on an opening at CKWX. Irfaan attended BCIT for one year in part-time classes geared towards radio broadcasting. With hard work and a lot of patience, Irfaan hopes to fulfill his dream of becoming a sports reporter in the near future.

Jim is our midday reporter and court specialist. He covers big stories like the Robert Pickton serial trial and Air India trial. He started with News1130 when it first went on the air in 1996. Jim has won several provincial and national reporting awards for stories ranging from high speed police chases to homeless people staying in fire-prone abandoned buildings. He has been a media law instructor at BCIT and a news and sports instructor at the Columbia Academy of Broadcasting. Jim's hobbies include singing, playing guitar and driving his Porsche.

George began his career in 1972 in the tobacco country of Southern Ontario. His career has taken him to Winnipeg, Toronto and Detroit as an anchor and reporter before becoming news director in London, Ontario. He has covered legislatures, police beats, and has over 20 radio journalism awards to his credit. In 1997 he joined Rogers Broadcasting to help build what is now 570 News in Kitchener. Ontario. In 1999 he came to All News Radio, News1130 as executive editor and in 2003 he went back on air to pursue his first joy in radio. George dedicates much of his own time to Big Brothers, the BC Lung Association and other charities by emceeing and taking part in events like Climb the Wall, the Big Brothers Bowl-a-thon and Run for the Cure.

Roberta Graham is News1130's morning show technical director. After graduating from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English Literature, she earned a diploma in Broadcast Journalism from BCIT. Besides her normal audio editing duties, she enjoys writing, reporting and learning more every day. Roberta loves to figure skate, dance and ride horses.

Rob is a 2001 graduate of the Applied Communication program at Camosun College in Victoria.  After an internship at TSN in Toronto in 2002, Rob returned to BC for a job at Peace FM, an independent radio and TV station in the small, Peace-region town of Chetwynd where he garned a wealth of experience. He's now very happy to be in the Big City!

Mike's duties include Technical Director, Website editing, Writer and Reporter.  Mike couldn't resist the lure of the mountains and moved to Vancouver in 2005 after working in radio and TV sports in Toronto. Mike worked at CFNY and CFRB in Toronto, then moved to TSN, and The Weather Network as a producer and writer, before leaving the "big smoke" behind.   Mike is a competitive curler and also enjoys hiking, biking, skiing and slo-pitch.

Evan has been with News1130 for three years, previous to that he travelled the world with his wife and tried really hard to make it in the music biz!! No such luck -- news would become his next passion. He started out as an anchor with CKWX and now enjoys the editing spot. He's a graduate of BCIT's Broadcast Journalism program.

Katharine has always known that this is the job for her. After receiving her degree in print journalism, Katharine worked at several newspapers including The Abbotsford/Mission Times and The Kamloops Daily News where she covered the province's devastating forest fires in the summer of 2004. She left to work as a freelance journalist overseas and got her first taste of foreign reporting during her time at the Birmingham Post and Mail and then travelled to Turkey to report on human rights issues at the Turkish Daily News. Katharine returned home in 2005 and studied broadcasting at BCIT where she left early to join the News1130 team as a reporter. Katharine also writes for a couple of online magazines such as Smudge, which is a women's magazine based out of Halifax.

Born in Victoria, Russ is a BC native. Aside from his childhood years in New York, Russ has lived in the Lower Mainland his entire life, graduating from Prince of Wales High School before moving on to study geophysics and meteorolgy at UBC. Russ has worked in the field of meterology for nearly two decades, including stints as a weather observer at the Vancouver international Airport, a lighthouse keeper on the Queen Charlotte Islands, a forecaster for Environment Canada and now as a broadcast meteorologist for News1130. Russ lives in Surrey with his wife and two sons, and spends much of his spare time coaching minor sports.

Kim Larsen has been with News1130 since our all-news radio station began on February 8, 1996.  He's the afternoon voice of "ground control" in Vancouver's most listened-to Traffic reports.  Kim has been working in radio as an on-air personality since 1983.

This 28-year veteran comes from BCIT's Broadcast Journalism program, circa 1970-something. The pride of Richmond High School, "Donny" has been a DJ, anchor, news reporter and sports reporter. He covered the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics as well as four CFL cities, three NHL cities including radio broadcasts of the Calgary Flames, and has interviewed the likes of Pierre Berton to Frank Zappa.

A career in radio won out over art school back in the early 1970s. After training at CKLG in Vancouver, ROBERT disc jockeyed at CJIB in Vernon, switched to news reporting at CFCW in Camrose, Alberta and finally landed a job in the CKWX newsroom in Vancouver in 1979 until 1987. Robert was the news director of the Satellite Radio Network from 1987-89; Western Canada Manager of Standard Broadcast News from 1989-91; was a member of the National Board of Directors of the Radio-Television News Directors Association 1989-91; joined Fraser Valley Broadcasters in 1992, leaving as News Director in 2001 to rejoin CKWX, now News1130, as morning show editor. Robert became Assistant News Director in 2005.

Mike has been with News1130 since 1997. He started in radio co-producing a live national talk show about sex, love and relationships. He also had a stint as news anchor and co-host up at our sister-station Mountain FM in Squamish and Whistler. After dealing with the lovelorn, the weird, and the dysfunctional, he says he naturally drifted into the newsroom. Born in Vancouver and raised on Vancouver Island, he has a love for the rugged beauty of the West Coast and its people. Mike also loves to put a human face on the stories of the day, talking to people, and giving listeners a smile, chuckle or pause for thought. He says the insights, comments and stories he gets from people on the street never cease to amaze him.

Alex Lyons joined the News1130 team as an evening traffic anchor in 2007.  Alex began his broadcast career in 1997 as a news anchor and reporter at CKRX-FM in Fort Nelson.  He returned to Vancouver late in 1998 and was hired by AM 1040 radio. After two years of technical production and on-air duties, Alex moved on to Corus Entertainment in Vancouver, where he was part of the traffic team for almost seven years, providing studio and airborne traffic reports for both CKNW and brother station AM730.  Born in New Westminster and raised in Surrey, Alex is a proud graduate of the BCIT broadcast program.

After attending BCIT in Burnaby, Andrea Macpherson began working in radio in 2005 as a Swing DJ, News Reporter, and did a fair amount of production at CKCQ Quesnel. In 2006 she became the afternoon anchor/reporter at CIGV Penticton, and in May 2007 moved back home to the Lower Mainland where she's currently an Anchor/Reporter at News1130 here in Vancouver.

Pamela's career spans three continents and has garnered North America's top broadcast journalism awards.  She has covered the last three Olympics for NBC Radio, anchored for the BBC World Service and was an eye witness to the collapse of the World Trade Centre on 9/11 as a CBS News Radio Correspondent.  Her 9/11 coverage earned her an Edward R. Murrow Award and an American Women in Radio and Television Award.  Most recently, she anchored at KOMO 1000 News in Seattle but is ecstatic to be back in Vancouver to pursue her love of radio and skiing at Whistler.

Yes, she's that Dianne Newman.
Born and raised on the Lower Mainland, performance has played a big part her life.  Following years of roaming, singing and acting, she danced into a career in radio in at Mountain FM in Squamish in 1986, spinning 'records' and reel to reels.  Dianne decided to concentrate on news and the next stop was 1040-KICKS in Vancouver.  She joined the Rogers family in 1992, first as a beat reporter and news anchor for CKWX and KISS-FM.  When NEWS1130 was launched in 1996, Dianne was part of the team and currently co-anchors the morning show.  Off the air, she spends a lot of time working out, volunteering, is a big supporter of the Royal Canadian Legion and especially enjoys karaoke.

While backpacking around the world, Tamiko was bitten badly by a writing bug. She decided to come back to BC to study journalism at Langara College where she happily immersed herself in the world of words. She has worked at News1130 for five years as a writer, in-house reporter and technical director.

A graduate of the BCIT Broadcast Communications program, Garry Raible is in his 34th year in the Vancouver market. He was one of the 'original' staffers when News1130 signed on in February of 1996. Career highlights include covering the two Canucks Stanley Cup runs, the 1979 Whitecaps Soccer Bowl championship and five Olympic Games.

Geoff Rohoman comes to News1130 fresh out of Toronto, where he's spent time at The Fan 590 and AM640 Toronto, after completing the journalism program at Humber College. An avid sports fan, Geoff loves everything that isn't the Canucks, especially his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. Geoff can be heard reading the news and also fills in for the sports department.

Born in Vancouver, and raised in East Van and Gibsons, Scott began his broadcasting career in Williams Lake in 1979 and after stops up and down the radio and T.V. dial in Kamloops, Vernon , Kelowna, Saskatoon, Victoria, Sechelt and Nanaimo, Scott couldn't be happier to return home to News 1130. Scott was once a stunt double for Robert Clothier's character "Relic" on the old Beachcombers T.V. show but says his strangest sports experience was broadcasting rodeo live on the radio at his first radio station in the Cariboo.

Since 2003, airborne traffic reporter Kim Seale has been working double duty doing weekday mornings and afternoons on News1130 and Jack FM.  Kim took her first steps in radio between 1990-1992 at Vancouver's CKXY AM 1040.  Then, for 11 years, she could be heard on interior radio stations talking about road conditions and closures from the BC Highways emergency radio room.  She lives with son Troy, dog Ayla and cat Gin Gin.

Tamara’s favourite stories to tell are those that explore how real people are affected by events, trends, and government decisions. She studied urban geography at UBC where she became fascinated by the social, economic and environmental issues that help determine a city’s liveability. Today she honours her love for storytelling as a reporter with News1130's morning show. She is also a proud Big Sister with Big Sisters of BC.

A proud graduate of BCIT's Broadcast Journalism program, John began his career in 2001 at CJIB in Vernon as news anchor and reporter. He also provided colour commentary for Vernon Vipers hockey broadcasts. Later that year, John moved back to his hometown of Vancouver, accepting a position as evening/overnight anchor at News1130. John is currently the evening editor.

Karen was born in Southern England and moved to Canada with her family at the age of four, where her mom, dad, sister and she moved around quite a bit before finally settling down in Port Moody. Karen is a huge sports fan(GO Canucks!)and she loves to play softball every summer and fall. Karen says “All of her friends and family are not surprised that she’s in the 'radio business' as she really likes to talk- A LOT!”

Andy has been in broadcasting for 56 years, starting out in Cornwall, Ontario, at CKSF in 1951. There were stops in Sault Ste. Marie and Ottawa, before heading to Montreal, his home town, where he spent 15 years at CJAD. In 1969 Andy had an opportunity to go to Vancouver, BC, as news announcer for CHQM-AM-FM. Packing the family treasures, along with six kids and wife Bea, the family settled down to west coast living, in Richmond, and has never looked back. Andy took over News Director duties, shortly after his arrival and spent 25 years at CHQM. He can be heard on the weekend as morning News Anchor at News1130, and has been at it for the past ten years.

Amanda has been at News1130 since February 2007. She previously spent time at CHUM Radio Vancouver, while attending Columbia Academy. She is working at News1130 as a news anchor, and does traffic reporting as well.  When she's not at work, you can find her spending time with friends and her two dogs, Madison and Mikey!

Paul is the evening sports anchor at News1130. He started the job straight out of BCIT in 2000. Paul loves hockey and the Canucks like any good Canadian kid, but he takes plenty of flack for being the department's token Major League Baseball fan.

Bruce was born and raised in greater Vancouver. He started in radio back in 1979 and after a short time in some small markets, Bruce made the move back to Vancouver in 1981. He worked at CKLG, CFMI and JR-FM. In 1996, Bruce was already working at CKWX when it switched formats from country to all news, and he stayed on as a traffic reporter. Bruce makes attempts at golf(that doesn't mean he enjoys it)and also likes Nascar, NFL, and hockey. He also has a secret desire to be a part-time donkey salesman.

Ben Wilson has been an anchor at News1130 since February 2001 after leaving BCIT's Broadcast Journalism program. Ben reads the news on weeknights with Tom Bricker and is a backup anchor for the midday and afternoon shows. When not at work, Ben is usually golfing or chasing the roulette ball at River Rock.

Treena has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from UBC and her diploma in Broadcast Journalism from BCIT. Treena signed on to News1130 when it was created in 1996 and has since worked as an anchor, editor, reporter, business editor and writer. Treena spends her free time shopping, going to movies and volunteering with Girl Guides of Canada, leading the 1st Como Lake Sparks. She loves reading and hates raisins and olives. She lives in Port Moody with her husband, daughter and two cats.