Jeffrey Lyndon Orridge is the chief executive officer of TVOntario, the provincial educational television network. He was appointed effective November 30, 2020. Previously he served as 13th Commissioner of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and was the first African-American chief executive of a major North American sports league. Earlier in his career, Orridge served as COO of Right to Play and executive director of CBC Sports Properties.
Orridge during first year as CFL Commissioner
TVO, formerly known as TVOntario, is a publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It operates flagship station CICA-DT in Toronto, which also relays programming across portions of Ontario through eight rebroadcast stations. All pay television providers throughout Ontario are required to carry TVO on their basic tier, and programming can be streamed for free online within Canada.
TVO staff shuttering Sudbury analogue antenna