Lowell Green

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Lowell Green (born 7 July 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States)^[1] is a Canadian radio personality. He hosts a morning talk show on Ottawa radio station CFRA, and has also syndicated programming to several other Canadian radio stations. He has just reached 50 years of radio broadcasting.

Green was born in the United States to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada. He lived with his grandparents for much of his youth.

Green graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College near Montreal in 1956. He started his radio career in Brantford, Ontario, subsequently moving to stations in Sudbury and Montreal. In Montreal, Green won awards for his coverage of the Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia.^[2]

Green arrived at CFRA in 1960 as a news and farm reporter. In 1966, he began hosting Greenline, and eventually became the longest-running open line talk show host in North America. He retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.

In 1984, Green ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in a provincial by-election (December 13) in Ottawa Centre. He came third, behind the NDP and the Progressive Conservative candidates, with 26.6% of all votes cast.

In 1993, Green returned to CFRA, and has hosted The Lowell Green Show ever since.

In early 2007, CHUM, which owns CFRA where Green works, applied to send him to France for the 90th Anniversary ceremonies of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the re-opening of the Vimy Ridge Memorial. Veterans Affairs Canada turned down the request. However, at the end of Green's Call-in show on April 2, 2007, John Baird, Member of Parliament for Ottawa West-Nepean and Minister of the Environment, as well as loyal fan, phoned in and notified him that Green would be going to France for the ceremonies.^{[citation needed]}

1 Controversy
2 Authored works
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Controversy

Green has been the subject of at least nine complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.^[3]

[edit] Authored works

Green, Lowell [September 2005]. The Pork Chop and Other Stories: A Memoir. Carp, Ontario: Creative Bound Resources. ISBN 1-894439-19-8.
Green, Lowell [November 1, 2006]. How the granola-crunching, tree-hugging thug huggers are wrecking our country!. Carp, Ontario: Creative Bound Resources. ISBN 1-894439-30-9.