Brian DePoe

Brian DePoe is a Canadian radio personality and program director. His father is Norman DePoe, a Canadian broadcast journalist at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation until 1976.

Biography

DePoe graduated from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1983. He started his radio career at CJAX-FM in Edmonton, Alberta, before moving on to CKRY-FM in Calgary, Alberta. After a brief stint at CJJR-FM in Vancouver, British Columbia, DePoe became Afternoon Drive host and Program Director of CKWX Vancouver. He was Operations Manager and Program Director at 97.3 E-Z Rock, owned by Astral Media.

DePoe has been president of the British Columbia Country Music Association and a member of the Board of Directors for Canada's Factor Program [1] He has also won the Program Director of the Year award at Canadian Music Week.[2]

In addition, DePoe is Program Director of Corus Montreal's English-language station, CFQR . He held the same title at CINW , a second English-language station in Montreal, until it ceased operations on January 29, 2010. [3][4][5]

gollark: I lost a data by accident and I need an old copy of it. Well, "need" is strong, but I would have to spend AT LEAST two minutes replacing it if I can't get it.
gollark: Which improves compression ratios thus good.
gollark: zstd *happily* runs at a few hundred MB/s decompression on modern devices, the issue is with the slow external HDD.
gollark: I SHOULD REALLY HAVE TESTED RESTORES AT REALISTIC SIZES ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ
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References
  1. Factor Canada Archived December 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. CMW Industry Awards Archived January 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. CTV Montreal
  4. AM Info690 Montréal and AM940 Montreal's Greatest Hits to cease operation on January 29, 2010, Corus press release, 2010-01-29
  5. CTV Montreal -- Two stations in Montreal going off the air Friday -- CTV News, Shows & Sport -- CTV Montreal (Received January 29, 2010)


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