Terry Matte (c. 1943 – December 28, 2009) was a news producer for

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's ''24Hours'' program in

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in the 1980s before moving to

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where he was senior producer for "Newsday", CBC Ottawa's supper-hour, television newscast. Previous to that, he was The National's Manitoba correspondent responsible for coverage of

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and Canada's North.

Life

Matter was born in Victoria, B.C. and graduated from the

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. He has a son, Andrew Matte, who works as an editor for

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Career

He started his career in newspapers in the late 1960s, and was a reporter and assistant city editor at the

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at the time of the newspaper's demise in 1971 when he started his career at the CBC. At the time of his retirement in 1997, he was a producer and host of The Money Report, a widely popular consumer segment on CBC's Newsday. He died December 28, 2009, in Ottawa of cancer. He had been diagnosed in February and was 66 years old at the time of his death.

References

External links

CBC Archives - Anti-government backlash
- Provincial Election Night results in 1981.
Obituary
Canadian television reporters and correspondents 1940s births 2009 deaths {{Canada-tv-bio-stub