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Heather Hiscox | |
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Hiscox in 2013 | |
Born | (1965-11-18) 18 November 1965 (age 59) Owen Sound, Ontario |
Alma mater | University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario |
Occupation | News presenter |
Employer | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Spouse | Dr. Martin Goldbach |
Heather Hiscox (born 18 November 1965) is a Canadian news anchor and the host of CBC Morning Live with Heather Hiscox from 6 to 10 a.m. during weekdays on CBC News Network. She has also hosted CBC's former flagship morning television program CBC News: Morning which became part of CBC News Now when the network re-branded itself in 2009.
Biography
Hiscox was born in Owen Sound, Ontario and grew up in a medical family. She graduated in 1986 from the University of Toronto, with a B.A. in French language and literature and from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 with a master's degree in journalism. She has previously worked for CFPL-TV, CBC Montreal, the Global Television Network, ASN and CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario, before returning to the CBC at the network level. She also co-hosted a morning show on 1290 CJBK in London, Ontario with Steve Garrison from 1990–1991. In 1988–89, she did a variety of radio shifts at London's Rock FM96 CFPL-FM including afternoon drive and evenings. She began her broadcasting career in her hometown of Owen Sound at radio station CFOS/CFPS. In 1997, she appeared on the CIQC AM 600 Montreal program Travel World as part of a feature headlined as "The Hidden Holiday Hide-away Haunts of Heather Hiscox".
Hiscox won the Miss Teen Canada pageant in 1981 when she was 16 years old. She is married to a heart surgeon, Martin Goldbach.
Honorary titles | ||
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Preceded byClara Jean Howard | Miss Teen Canada 1981 | Succeeded byEmily Sertic |
References
- ^ Lennon, Frank. "Miss Teen Canada: Heather Hiscox, 16, of Owen Sound, won title and scholastic award with beauty, brains and bunions". Toronto Library.
- "CBC Media Centre - Heather Hiscox". CBC.ca.
- Martin, Chip (September 23, 2010). "The inductees". London Free Press. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017.
External links
- CBC News Morning: Heather Hiscox, profile
- CBC News Now with Heather Hiscox, her titular program
- Heather Hiscox on Twitter
- digitaljournal.com
- pageantopolis.com
- lfpress.com Archived 2017-08-01 at archive.today
- 1965 births
- Canadian television news anchors
- Living people
- People from Owen Sound
- University of Toronto alumni
- University of Western Ontario alumni
- CBC Television people
- Canadian women television journalists
- Canadian beauty pageant winners
- 20th-century Canadian journalists
- 21st-century Canadian journalists
- 20th-century Canadian women journalists
- Canadian Screen Award winning journalists
- 21st-century Canadian women journalists