Linden Soles (born October 26, 1956, in

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television journalist, best known to international audiences as an anchor on

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'', January 17, 1998. He was known for reporting the death of

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on CNN. His employment was terminated by the network in 1998 in a management shakeup by

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, after Kaplan concluded that the network had too many anchors for viewers to keep track of. Prior to joining CNN in 1993, Soles worked for Canadian radio stations including CHIQ-FM Winnipeg and television stations including

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in Winnipeg, and both CKVU-TV and CHAN-TV in

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, British Columbia. Soles also served for a time during the late 1970s as host of the CBC Radio program "90 Minutes With A Bullet".

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