Josie Dye

Joscelyne "Josie" Dye (born April 5, 1978) is a Canadian radio and television personality, currently the morning host on CIND-FM (Indie88) in Toronto, Ontario.[1] Prior to joining Indie88, she was a longtime personality on CFNY-FM (102.1 The Edge) in the same market, and worked in television at Corus Entertainment for both W and CMT Canada.[2]

Josie Dye of Indie 88

Her first professional role was Amaryllis in Limelight Theater's production of The Music Man at age 9 and played an orphan at Young People’s Theatre in Jacob Two Two.

Background

Raised in the Toronto suburb of Pickering, she attended Ryerson University from 1998 to 2001, graduating from the Radio and Television Arts Program. She was married on July 24, 2010 to Dine Alone Records founder Joel Carriere.

Career

Dye currently hosts The Josie Dye Show on Indie88 and Josie's Top 20, which is syndicated across Canada, and has hosted Oh So Cosmo on Cosmopolitan TV and Hit or Miss on CMT Canada.

Dye has also hosted the Cutting Edge Music Festival, Wakestock, Edgefest, and the CASBY Awards. An avid runner, she has endorsed Nike[3] and Apple since 2006. She has been involved with the Easter Seals charity since 2002, hosting and attending many of their events.

Dye is a prolific public speaker,[4] giving career, motivational and educational speeches to high school and university students as well as to women's groups, Toastmasters International and the workplace.

Despite her extensive experience as a public speaker, Dye had a notorious experience in March 2012, when she attempted to sing the Canadian national anthem at a Toronto Rock lacrosse game and, in her nervousness, forgot the words.[5]

gollark: Though at least *it* has generics!
gollark: Same problem as Go, except instead of simplicity they went for overcomplicated crazy syntactical whatsits.
gollark: No.
gollark: Well, you might write less code if you're busy staring at blurry text.
gollark: Let us all configure our IDEs to blur text annoyingly.

References
  1. "New morning show for Toronto’s Indie88". Media in Canada, March 16, 2017.
  2. "Cosmo bride has the edge". Toronto Star. 2010-02-13. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
  3. "Nike". Inside.nike.com. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
  4. "UW Daily Bulletin, November 30, 2006". Bulletin.uwaterloo.ca. 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
  5. "Josie Dye National Anthem". Huffingtonpost.ca. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
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