TORONTO – Andy Mendham and David Craig will be honoured with 2010 RTNDA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards in the Central Region.
The awards will be presented at the RTNDA Central Regional Awards Banquet in Toronto on May 15, 2010.
Mendham retired from CFPL-TV at the end of August 2009, ending a career that covered almost the entire span of television broadcasting in Canada…from film to digital, sys the RTNDA release. He has shot interviews with every Canadian Prime Minister since Pierre Trudeau, not to mention such international figures as Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth and Jimmy Carter and celebrities like Johnny Cash, Tony Bennett and many, many more.
Craig started his career in 1959 in Woodstock, New Brunswick "doing everything including sweeping the floors," he says. He was the farm editor, the rock and roll disc jockey and a newsman. In 1967, he was hired by CFRB Toronto where his responsibilities included anchoring, reporting and writing. He was even the station’s Queen’s Park bureau chief for one year before settling into a 22-year stretch as the morning news editor. After CFRB, David did a stint at CJEZ-FM and later became the first news director at CFTR Toronto when it switched to 680 All News Radio. Most recently, he worked as a weekend announcer for CBC before deciding at age 68 it was time to retire. David says the attraction of news is "the constant adventure of life" it provides, reads the release.
