# Ken Rockburn

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

==Career history==

From the late 1970s until the early 1990s Rockburn served as news director at [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa) radio station [CHEZ-FM](/source/CHEZ-FM). As news director, he won three national radio awards from [ACTRA](/source/ACTRA). He also hosted a two-hour program on arts and current affairs called ''[Medium Rare](/source/Medium_Rare_(radio_show))'', 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](/source/CBOT_(TV)).  Contemporaneously, as of 1996, on Ottawa's [CBC Radio One](/source/CBC_Radio_One) station [CBO-FM](/source/CBO-FM), Rockburn hosted ''[All in a Day](/source/All_in_a_Day_(radio_show))''.<ref name = Laroquebio>{{
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| last = Larocque
| first = Louis
| title = The Larocque Who's Who
| date = April 6, 2007
| url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~louislarocque/canadae.htm
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</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](/source/CPAC_(TV_network)) 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](/source/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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