MARKHAM – The Ontario Association of Broadcasters held its 11th annual Career Development Day on March 7, with some 350 students from 10 post-secondary broadcast schools registering for the event.
Career Day allows soon-to-be graduating broadcasting students to meet with professionals in their field to talk candidly and ask questions. The event’s ever popular round-table discussions featured hosts from all areas of broadcasting and included: (alphabetically) John Arruda, Mora Austin, Shelley Barry, Julie Borthwick, Ron Brown, Dave Budge, Candice, Lynn Chambers, John Coldwell, Bruce Cowan, Ron Dann, Navi Dhanoa, Erica Diamond, Dale Fallon, Tara Fehertoi, Christina Fitzgerald, Jonathan Green, Diana Hansen, Jennifer Howe, Mike Katrycz, Shannon Kelly, Chris Lapp, Anne Lavrih, Veronica Low, Ross Macleod, Melani Mariani, Troy McCallum, Buffy McGaw, Scott Metcalfe, Matt Mise, Tyler Mountain, Evanka Osmak, Shem Parkinson, John Perras, Chris Pottage, Ken Reid, Dan Riccio, Steve Saylor, Stephanie Shaughnessy, Helena Shelton, Chris Sisam, Nathan Smith, Ian Solecki, Brittany Sprung, Andrew Taucar, Kyle Taylor, Andrew Thomas, Glenn Torrence, Maggie Tulecka, John Van Driel, Adriane Vogel, Dave Welch, Rob Wong, Dan Wylie, and Michael Zitney.
Career Day sponsors have enabled the OAB to continue hold this event each year at no cost to individual students. This year’s sponsors include: Host – Corus Entertainment, Platinum; Humber College and Seneca College, Gold; Applied Electronics Ltd., Durham Radio, MZ Media, and National Captioning Canada, Silver; Broadnetworx and Durham College, Bronze; Fanshawe College, NLogic and Broadcast Dialogue.
The Ontario Association of Broadcasters' Education Liaison Committee is: Neil Mathur (Chair), Mora Austin, Lisa Bowditch, John van Driel, Andrew Forsyth and Chris Sisam.
