Peter Jordan (presenter)

Peter Jordan (sometimes known as Rocki Rolletti) is a Canadian actor and television presenter.[1] He is best known for the work series It's a Living, which aired on CBC Television from 1989 to 2003.[2]

Peter was also a regular contributor to CBWT's 24Hours LateNight program in the 1980s.

Peter has won two Gemini Awards for Best Host Lifestyle or Performing Arts Program or Series for the It's a Living series (1998 eps. 1 & 5, and 2000 season) and was a four-time nominee in the same category.

When the full hour of news returned to CBWT in Winnipeg on February 19 [What year?], it was announced that Peter would host a new segment called W6 (Who, What, When, Where, Why, Winnipeg).

In 2008, he acted in the romantic comedy New in Town, with Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr., filmed in Selkirk, MB.[3]

Cultural Impact

In the 1980s, Jordan helped to forge a cultural link between flamingos and Transcona, a working class suburb of Winnipeg with his satirical song Transcona Anthem[4]

gollark: Neural networks. So buzzword.
gollark: Why is my documents folder 25GB?
gollark: Apparently my `.config` folder is 1GB.
gollark: ```Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted ondev 4049896 0 4049896 0% /devrun 4093740 1156 4092584 1% /run/dev/mapper/arch-root 62914560 36713744 25937136 59% /tmpfs 4093740 32672 4061068 1% /dev/shmtmpfs 4093740 0 4093740 0% /sys/fs/cgrouptmpfs 4093740 8236 4085504 1% /tmp/dev/sda1 1046512 72504 974008 7% /boot/dev/mapper/arch-home 163371072 142836388 20534684 88% /hometmpfs 818748 32 818716 1% /run/user/1000```
gollark: Well, my server holds other stuff, and it has 1TB.

References
  1. Sanderson, David (2010-05-15). "Ain't no party like a Manitoba party..." Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  2. "It's Not a Living anymore for CBC's Peter Jordan". Winnipeg Free Press. 2003-10-31. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095174/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
  4. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cbc-archives-1986-rocki-rolletti-s-transcona-anthem-1.3308531


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