10 Facts About Daniel Richler

Daniel Richler was born on 1957 and is a Canadian arts and pop culture broadcaster and writer.

Daniel Richler became a punk rocker as a teenager and was lead singer of the punk rock band Alpha Jerks.

Daniel Richler joined the Ontario biker gang The New Hegelians as an honorary member, despite not actually owning a motorcycle.

From 1977 through the early 1980s, Daniel Richler was a deejay, presenter and critic on a variety of major market radio stations including CHOM-FM in Montreal, and CJCL and CFNY-FM in Toronto.

Daniel Richler joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he was a cultural commentator on CBC Radio's Morningside with Peter Gzowski.

Daniel Richler moved to CITY-TV in 1985, becoming co-host and eventually producer of The NewMusic, the internationally syndicated, pioneering weekly rockumentary show that pre-dated MTV and later gave rise to MuchMusic.

In 1987 and 1988 Daniel Richler was chief arts correspondent on The Journal, CBC's national news program.

Daniel Richler subsequently moved to TVOntario where he became creative head of arts programming, and launched the long-running literary program Imprint, which he later served as host and executive producer.

At that time Daniel Richler oversaw the schedule, acquisitions, commissioning and original programming of the channel's arts sector.

Daniel Richler left BookTelevision in 2004 to move to London, after his wife Jill Offman accepted a senior position with Discovery Channel UK.