{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person |name = Murray Chercover |image = |caption = |birth_name = Murray Howard Chercover |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|8|18}} |birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2010|7|3|1929|8|18}} |death_place = Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada |death_cause = |education =Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts |other_names = |employer = |occupation = |years_active= |spouse =Barbara Chercover |partner = |parents = |children = 2 |relatives = |website = |known_for = |awards = }} '''Murray Howard Chercover''' (18 August 1929 – 3 July 2010) was a Canadian television producer and executive, particularly known as the president of the CTV Television Network from 1967 until 1990.
==Early life== Chercover was born in Montreal, Quebec, but moved with his family to Port Arthur, Ontario in his youth.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pyckAQAAIAAJ&q=murray+chercover+1929 | title=Who's who in Canada | volume=80 | year=1989 | isbn=978-0-7715-3961-9 | publisher=International Press Limited | accessdate=6 July 2010 }}</ref><ref name=CCF1>{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/personalities.php?id=235 | title=Chercover, Murray (1929-2010) | first=Pip | last=Wedge | date=April 2007 | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=6 July 2010 }}</ref> There in 1944, his first broadcast job was with radio station CFPA.<ref name=CTVObit>{{cite news | url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/broadcasting-pioneer-murray-chercover-dead-at-80-1.529096 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021132319/http://www.ctvnews.ca/broadcasting-pioneer-murray-chercover-dead-at-80-1.529096 | url-status=dead | archive-date=21 October 2012 | title=Broadcasting pioneer Murray Chercover dead at 80 | date=4 July 2010 | publisher=CTV News | accessdate=6 July 2010 }}</ref>
==Career== From the late 1940s, Chercover worked in New York on various theatre and television projects. When CBC Television began in 1952, he returned to Toronto to produce and direct various programmes there including ''Space Command'', ''General Motors Presents'', ''On Camera'' and Ford's ''Playbill''.<ref name=CCF1 />
Chercover left CBC for CFTO-TV in 1960 which became the flagship station for CTV when the network began in 1961. He became the network's president in 1967. He also served as its chief operating officer in 1967, its managing director from 1968, then chief executive officer from 1986. Chercover resigned from CTV in 1990.<ref name=CCF1 /><ref name=CCF2>{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_CTV_Television.html | title=CTV Television Network (summary) | first1=Ross | last1=McCreath | first2=Pip | last2=Wedge | date=June 2007 | accessdate=6 July 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707112545/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_CTV_Television.html | archivedate=7 July 2010 }}</ref>
He died from pneumonia complications on 3 July 2010 at Hill House Hospice in Richmond Hill, Ontario.<ref name=CTVObit /><ref>{{cite news | url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20100707.93236532/BDAStory/BDA/deaths | title=Deaths: Murray Chercover (1929-2010) | newspaper=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto | date=7 July 2010 | accessdate=8 July 2010 }}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== * 1986 - Canadian Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Gold Ribbon<ref name=CTVObit /> * 1988 - Canadian Film and Television Association Lifetime Achievement Gold Medal<ref name=CTVObit /> * 1990 - Banff World Television Festival Rockie Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name=CTVObit /> * 1991 - Broadcast Executives Society Achievement Award<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bes.ca/besawards.html | title=BES Achievement Award | publisher=Broadcast Executives Society | accessdate=8 July 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516034914/http://www.bes.ca/besawards.html | archive-date=16 May 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0155752}}
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