Wei Chen is a Canadian television and radio journalist. Born in Taiwan, she started her career with stations in London and Hamilton.[1] She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before moving to Canada AM, the morning show at the CTV Television Network.[1] She was also an anchor on CTV News Channel[2] and a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine series W5, receiving Gemini Award nominations in 2000 and 2002 for her work with W5.[3]

In 2003, Chen left CTV to work for independent station CKXT-DT as anchor of its daytime news program Toronto Today.[4] The program was cancelled after only eight months on the air,[5] and Chen was reassigned as a reporter for the primetime magazine program Toronto Tonight until that program was also cancelled in 2005.[6]

She then joined CBC Television and worked at TV stations in Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto until January 2007, when she became the new host of CBC Radio One's Ontario Morning, the network's local morning show for non-metropolitan markets in Southern Ontario, until 2022.[7] She lives in Toronto with her husband Michael Pollard and daughter (Jensen), who she adopted in 2003.[8][9][10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Wei Chen quits CBC for Canada AM". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 20 August 1993. pp. C1. ProQuest 385233290.
  2. ↑ "CTV News One all set to begin cable operations". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, August 14, 1997.
  3. ↑ "Here are the nominees for the 15th annual Gemini Awards". Canadian Press, September 19, 2000.
  4. ↑ Ross Oakland, "New channel takes to the airwaves; Station has been built from the ground up Launch gala with 1,500 goes on despite the rain". Toronto Star, September 20, 2003.
  5. ↑ Michelle DaCruz, "Craig Media cuts shows, jobs at Toronto 1: Channel tries to stem losses of $1-million a week". National Post, May 19, 2004.
  6. ↑ Gayle MacDonald, "Troubled station backs off local news". The Globe and Mail, May 27, 2005.
  7. ↑ "Mother's last goodbye haunts her still; Wei Chen's family didn't talk about her mom's cancer, so her death was harder still". Toronto Star, September 24, 2009.
  8. ↑ Infantry, Ashante (13 October 2003). "TV host takes special delivery". Toronto Star. p. A3. ProQuest 1441445340.
  9. ↑ "Adoption Diary - 'I will take care of you forever'". Toronto Star. 20 October 2003. p. A4. ProQuest 144144371.
  10. ↑ Infantry, Ashante (13 December 2003). "TV anchor, husband celebrate little one". Toronto Star. p. H3. ProQuest 1349947990.


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