Bill Good Jr. (born 1945) is a Canadian

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and host of

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shows, all in the province of

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. After 21 years with the

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, first doing radio before moving to Television news, he hosted talk radio at

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for 26 years. He also anchored evening news broadcasts on BCTV and CIVT between 1993 and 2010.

Career

He worked for CFPR in

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. That led to a permanent job at a newly opened station CHTK-FM in the same city. After a year he went to CFAX in Victoria and joined the CBC in 1967. In the 1970s, he worked for

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, where one of his duties was hosting ''

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'' broadcasts originating from Vancouver. In 1978, he moved to CBUT in Vancouver, where he anchored ''NewsCentre'' until 1988 when he joined CKNW. From 1993 to 2001, he anchored the Vancouver edition of '' Canada Tonight'', broadcast on BCTV (then Vancouver's CTV affiliate). He moved to CTV Vancouver in 2001 after that station became Vancouver's CTV O&O. He formerly co-anchored the 6:00pm newscast on CTV Vancouver alongside Pamela Martin. In July 2014, Good announced he would retire on 1 August after 26 years at CKNW. He returned to the airwaves on 8 September 2015 as host of a daily editorial commentary feature, ''A Minute with Bill Good'' on NEWS 1130. He also previously appeared in television advertisements for the home lending company Capital Direct.

Family broadcasting history

His father, Bill Good Sr., was also a well-known

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and

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in Vancouver, known as "Breathless Bill" for his four- to five-hour commercial-free broadcast coverage of Canadian Open and Amateur golf championships. His brother, John Good, also worked in radio and television, mostly in Toronto and eastern Canada before returning to Vancouver as part of the on-air talent during the launch of CKVU, a new TV station in the late 1970s. He helped create '' Sports Page'', a longstanding sports program. John Good retired from TV work to enter private business in 1980 and went on to become a successful mining promoter, but not before he created the business program ''Venture''. John Good resides in

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and

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Awards

* Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award - Jack Webster Foundation *

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* RTNDA Canada

References

External links

CTV BC biography of Bill GoodRavi Baichwal / Bill Good 9/11 interview with Paul Kavanagh
{{DEFAULTSORT:Good, Bill Canadian television news anchors Canadian sports announcers National Hockey League broadcasters Mass media people from Vancouver Living people 1945 births Canadian talk radio hosts CTV Television Network people Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award winners