McQueen to receive lifetime achievement award at Banff

TORONTO - One of Canada’s best-known broadcast executives and “industry trailblazer”, Trina McQueen, will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Banff Television Festival on June 8, 2009. The Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges outstanding and unique contributions to the broadcasting industry throughout an individual's career. McQueen’s career of achievements extends to both private and public television as president and COO of CTV, founding president of the Discovery Channel Canada, and head of news, current affairs and Newsworld at CBC. McQueen is currently on the board of the CBC and is an adjunct professor of broadcast management at the Schulich School of...