Ross Porter (Canadian broadcaster)

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Ross Porter is a Canadian broadcaster and music writer. Best known as the longtime host of the jazz program After Hours on CBC Radio Two, he became head of the jazz television channel Cool TV in 2001. In 2004, he became president and CEO of JAZZ-FM, a non-profit public radio station in Toronto devoted to jazz programming.

Porter also published a consumer guide to jazz recordings, The Essential Jazz Recordings: 101 CDs, in 2006.