Jay switzer biography

Jay Switzer CM (July 11, 1956 – January 29, 2018) was a.
Jay Switzer CM was a Canadian television executive, most noted as a longtime senior executive of CHUM Limited.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Died.

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Jay's first introduction to the business came when his mother Phyllis asked her 13-year-old son to attend a CRTC hearing in Trois Rivieres and bring back a report for her regulatory newsletter. When Phyllis co-founded Citytv in September 1972, 16-year-old Jay's first full-time job was on the station's switchboard. This was followed by regular Saturday nights as floor director assembling the boxing ring with his high school classmates on Citytv's live "Fight Night" broadcasts. The pay was $1.50 an hour but he got to clean George Chuvalo's spit cup. After getting his MBA from the University of Western Ontario, Jay returned to Citytv on a full-time basis as Program Manager, the job that was truest to his calling, and one he never really let go of. His passion for great TV and movies was contagious, and led to Citytv, and its offspring MuchMusic, Bravo!, Fashion Television and many other channels, expanding across Canada and around the world. Jay rose through the ranks at CHUM over the years, ultimately being appointed CEO in 2002. Under Jay's lead

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Year Born: 1956Year Died: 2018

Switzer, Jay (1956- )

The son of cable pioneer Israel (Sruki) Switzer and CITY-TV co-founder Phyllis Switzer, Jay was born in Calgary in 1956. After residing for brief periods in Estevan and Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and Lethbridge, Alberta, where Sruki was building Cablesystems while Phyllis raised a family of three kids and completed a post-graduate degree in psychology, the Switzers arrived in Toronto in 1967, when Sruki joined Maclean-Hunter.

Jay’s first introduction to the business of broadcasting came when Phyllis asked her 13-year-old son to attend a CRTC hearing in Trois Rivieres and bring back a report for her regulatory newsletter. Then, when CITY-TV went on the air in September 1972, 16-year-old Jay’s first full-time job was on the station’s switchboard. He later worked for the Financial Post, before studying for and obtaining his MBA at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. While still working on his MBA, Jay worked part-time in 1981 on the financia

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Jay Switzer

Canadian television executive (1956–2018)

For the American chemist, see Jay Switzer (chemist).

Jay SwitzerCM (July 11, 1956 – January 29, 2018) was a Canadian television executive, most noted as a longtime senior executive of CHUM Limited.^[1]

Born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Lethbridge, he was the son of broadcast executives Israel Switzer and Phyllis Switzer.^[1] He had his first job in broadcasting as a weekend switchboard operator for Citytv, and then worked as a cable installer for Maclean-Hunter, a director of television pilots and a research analyst for the Financial Post. He attained an MBA from the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School,^[2] before rejoining Citytv as director of programming in 1983.^[1] In that role, he also oversaw the launch and development of MuchMusic, the first of CHUM's forays into ownership and operation of cable channels.^[2]

In March 2000, he was named senior vice-president and general manager of the company, before being promoted to president and chief execu