Lynne McNamara
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Lynne McNamara is a Canadian journalist. She was born in Duncan, British Columbia. As a young girl in the 1950s, inspired by the actress Betty Hutton in the Cecil B. DeMille epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, Lynne dreamed of becoming a movie star when she grew up. But, as the peripatetic daughter of a Mountie, often posted to such small B.C. towns as Pouce Coupe and Campbell River, that vocation seemed unlikely.
After attending the University of British Columbia, Lynne taught elementary school for two years before leaving the profession for a career in television and radio.
She started out at BCTV News as a script assistant, worked at CBC TV Toronto as a script assistant and floor director, At CKVU's Vancouver Show as A talent co-ordinator and as a program co-ordinator at the Provincial Educational Media Centre.
She has been a producer and replacement host at radio station CJOR, fashion reporter for the CBC Television show, Midday, host of the local CBC Radio show, ArtBeat, and co-host of the local CBC TV nostalgia series, Then & Now.
Lynne wrote the column, On Location for The Province newpaper for nine years while she wrote, produced and introduced weekly behind-the-scenes movie set stories for BCTV's Early News. She also wrote, produced and voiced daily items on the local movie scene for News 1130 Radio for several years.
Until recently, Lynne wrote a thrice-weekly column in The Vancouver Sun. Currently, she maintains a blog, works as a film extra and is getting back into retail display design work.
