Ken Rockburn

{{Short description|Canadian radio and television journalist and host}} '''Ken Rockburn''' (born 1947) is a Canadian radio and television journalist and host. He is most noted for his associations with the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CHEZ-FM radio.

==Career history==

From the late 1970s until the early 1990s Rockburn served as news director at Ottawa radio station CHEZ-FM. As news director, he won three national radio awards from ACTRA. He also hosted a two-hour program on arts and current affairs called ''Medium Rare'', which was widely syndicated across Canada. Rockburn's book from this period, ''Medium Rare: Jamming With Culture'' was published in 1995.<ref name = Laroquebio/>

During 1994 to 1997, Rockburn hosted ''Rockburn and Company'' on CBC's Ottawa television station CBOT. Contemporaneously, as of 1996, on Ottawa's CBC Radio One station CBO-FM, Rockburn hosted ''All in a Day''.<ref name = Laroquebio>{{ cite web | last = Larocque | first = Louis | title = The Larocque Who's Who | date = April 6, 2007 | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~louislarocque/canadae.htm | accessdate = 2007-05-20 }} </ref> Rockburn's tenure on the show continued until 2001,<ref>{{ cite news | title =All in a Day gets new host | publisher = CBC News | date = January 15, 2002 | url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/all-in-a-day-gets-new-host-1.343158 | accessdate = 2007-05-20 }}</ref> during which the program was consistently ranked number one in its market.

Rockburn joined CPAC in 2001, and developed two shows: ''Rockburn Presents'' and ''Talk Politics''. ''Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews'' was published in 2007. Rockburn retired from CPAC in 2008.<ref>[http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&section_id=21&template_id=1145&lang=e CPAC Announces Departure of Host Ken Rockburn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922090055/http://cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&section_id=21&template_id=1145&lang=e |date=2010-09-22 }}; News Release, May 26, 2008; www.cpac.ca.</ref>

In 2015, Rockburn published the book ''We Are as the Times Are'', a history of Le Hibou Coffee House.<ref name=book >{{cite news |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/books/coffeehouse-nights-new-book-remembers-le-hibou |title=Coffeehouse nights: New book remembers Le Hibou|date=September 11, 2015 |newspaper= Ottawa Citizen |accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref>

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