Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician, producer and former CBC personality. From 1990 to 2000, he was a vocalist and drummer in the Thornhill-based folk-pop band Moxy Früvous. In the 2000s, he became a television and radio broadcaster. He hosted, among others, the CBC Newsworld program Play (2002–2005), the CBC Radio One program The National Playlist (2005–2006), and the CBC Radio One program Q, which he co-created and hosted from 2007 to 2014, until he was fired by the CBC.
Ghomeshi hosting his radio show Q in 2009
Moxy Früvous in 1993 (left to right: Dave Matheson, a long-haired Jian Ghomeshi, Murray Foster, Mike Ford)
Ghomeshi interviewing Brent Butt on Q in 2010.
Ghomeshi hosting a Canadian Film Centre event on May 8, 2014.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.
CBC Headquarters in Ottawa in 2019
Journalists in a CBC newsroom in Montreal in November 1944
A CBC satellite truck, used for remote television broadcasts
CBC North studios in Iqaluit in 2011