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radio personality, who has hosted the internationally syndicated ''The Greg Beharrell Show'' since 2020.Lance Venta
"YEA Networks Launches The Greg Beharrell Show"
''RadioInsight'', August 3, 2020.
Originally from
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,
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, he was educated at the
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.Patrick Maloney
"A Londoner who got his start in local radio is now on the air in the San Francisco TV market"
''
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'', August 12, 2016.
He started his career as a technician for London's talk radio station CFPL, before debuting as an on-air personality on sister station CFPL-FM. He then spent a number of years as a host on CFEX-FM in
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,
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, before joining
CFNY-FM CFNY-FM (102.1 Hertz, MHz, "102.1 The Edge") is a radio station city of license, licensed to Brampton, Ontario. Owned by Corus Entertainment, the station broadcasts a modern rock format serving the Greater Toronto Area. Its studios are in Downtow ...
in
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,
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, in 2013. After about a year on the evening shift at CFNY, he moved to mornings in March 2014 as cohost with Dominik Diamond and Josie Dye; however, the new program lasted only a few months due to poor listener reaction, and by July Beharrell had been reassigned as the afternoon drive host on
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in
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,
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. In 2015 he joined
KITS KITS (105.3 FM broadcasting, FM, "Live 105") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock radio format known as "Live 105". The studios ...
in
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,
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, remaining with the station until joining
KLOS KLOS (95.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "95-5 KLOS") is a commercial radio station City of license, licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Meruelo Group, Meruelo Media. KLOS airs a mainst ...
in
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in 2017."KLOS/Los Angeles Adds Night Version Of Frosty, Heidi & Frank, Taps Greg Beharrell To Join Staff"
''All Access'', January 10. 2017.
Although now based in the United States, he was still heard in some Canadian radio markets as a
voice-tracking Voice-tracking, also called cyber jocking and referred to sometimes colloquially as a robojock, is a technique employed by some radio stations in radio broadcasting to produce the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the radio stu ...
host, including as the imaging voice for all of Canada's
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-branded radio stations. In 2021 he won a Canadian Radio Award as Best Imaging Voice, Large Market for his Jack FM work. His syndicated show was launched in 2020 through YEA networks, and has since been picked up by many rock-formatted radio stations in both the United States and Canada."Revolving Door"
''Broadcast Dialogue'', September 29, 2022.
The program is recorded by Beharrell as a mixture of standard radio jock talk and comedy segments, but allows individual stations to program their own musical selections and schedule the program wherever they want, and has thus been marketed to rock stations regardless of their formatting as classic, modern, mainstream or active rock.


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