Former cbc journalists still alive

Canadian radio and television personality

Stuart Robert (Stu) Jeffries (born May 10, 1960)^[1] is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster.^[2] Best known as the host of CBC Television's Good Rockin' Tonite from 1986 to 1993,^[3] he is currently the morning host on CHBM-FM (Boom 97.3) in Toronto, Ontario.

Born in Richmond, British Columbia,^[1] and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba,^[4] Jeffries worked in radio as program director and midday announcer at CJME in Regina, Saskatchewan, when he was first hired as host of Good Rockin' Tonite.^[3] Initially he kept both jobs, flying to Vancouver weekly to tape the television show,^[4] but later gave up the Regina position and moved to Vancouver.

He also later became host of the CBC's teen series Switchback.^[1] By 1989, he was also a radio host on Vancouver's CKXY concurrently with his CBC Television work,^[1] and later moved to CKLG