George Stroumboulopoulos

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George Stroumboulopoulos
Birth name George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos
Born August 16, 1972
Malton, Ontario
Other name(s) Strombo

George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos (born August 16, 1972 in Malton, now part of the City of Mississauga, Ontario), commonly nicknamed Strombo, is a Canadian television and radio personality of Greek and Ukrainian descent.

Stroumboulopoulos studied radio broadcasting at Humber College. He was a board operator at Toronto sports radio station The Fan 590 when he first emerged as an on-air personality, doing segments with host Jim Richards and Spider Jones. Stroumboulopoulos became a full program host at the Fan in his own right (entitled Game, with Bob Mackowycz Jr. and Jeff Marek), then a disc jockey at the 102.1 The Edge modern rock radio in Toronto, starting in 1997. His move to television as a VJ and entertainment journalist at MuchMusic and Citytv Toronto made him a national celebrity. (A memorable 25-minute interview with U2's Bono ended with Bono stating “George, I am a fan.”)

In 2004, he was featured on CBC television's The Greatest Canadian series as the advocate for Tommy Douglas. His case proved persuasive; Douglas (whose profile was shown first) started the contest in first place and remained there.

In December 2004, Stroumboulopoulos left MuchMusic to host a new live prime time news program on CBC Newsworld: The Hour. He also co-hosts a Sunday night talk radio show, The Strombo Show, on CFRB in Toronto and CJAD in Montreal.

In July 2006, Stroumboulopoulos signed on to host the American version of The One: Making a Music Star, aired on ABC and CBC [1]. However, due to abysmal ratings, the show was cancelled after just two weeks[2]. Stromboulopoulos stated that he was only taking on the show as a “summer job,” and did not plan to stop hosting The Hour. As well, he has stated that he will not host a proposed Canadian version of that show if it comes to fruition.[citation needed]

Stroumboulopoulos was nominated for the 2007 Gemini Viewers Choice Award. He ended up losing the award to Marilyn Denis, the host of Cityline.[3] Stroumboulopoulos did however win the Gemini for Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series.[4]

Stroumboulopoulos has also been involved with numerous charitable initiatives, such as hosting the 'HipHop4Africa' Mandela Children's Fund Canada and CapAids Toronto benefit which featured Canadian musicians Melanie Durrant, Citizen Kane, and Gurpreet Chana among others. Deejay Ra also did a live reading at the sold-out event as part of his 'Hip-Hop Literacy' program, distributing Mandela and Tupac books to the students in attendance.

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  1. ^ "Stroumboulopoulos to host music search show The One", CBC Arts, 2006-07-10.
  2. ^ "Music reality show 'The One' cancelled by ABC a week after its debut", Wikinews, 2006-07-28.
  3. ^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini21/vca/index.cfm
  4. ^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini21/noms.cfm?catid=9520&gemnig=2

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