1. George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canadian media personality, television host and podcaster.
28 Facts About George Stroumboulopoulos
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George Stroumboulopoulos is one of Canada's most popular broadcasters and best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic.
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George Stroumboulopoulos was the host and co-executive producer of the CBC Television talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight from 2005 to 2014.
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From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Rogers.
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George Stroumboulopoulos was born in Malton, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, to a Greek father from Egypt and a Ukrainian mother.
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George Stroumboulopoulos was raised in Toronto, primarily by his mother and a close-knit extended family.
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In spring 1993, George Stroumboulopoulos worked at rock radio in Kelowna, British Columbia for a few months before getting a job offer at the Toronto radio station Fan 590 AM, working in talk radio.
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George Stroumboulopoulos then moved to CFNY-FM to host various shows including Live in Toronto.
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From 2000 to 2004, George Stroumboulopoulos worked at MuchMusic as producer and host of The Punk Show, then host of The NewMusic, MuchLOUD and MuchNews.
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In 2004, George Stroumboulopoulos was featured on CBC television's The Greatest Canadian series as the advocate for Tommy Douglas, former Saskatchewan premier and regarded as Canada's "Father of Medicare".
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George Stroumboulopoulos made a personal and passionate case for Tommy Douglas, who was named the winner of the contest.
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George Stroumboulopoulos hosted a long-running Sunday night talk radio show, The Strombo Show.
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George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight was a hybrid of news and celebrity and covered everything from politics, pop culture, the environment, human rights, entertainment, sports and more.
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In July 2006, George Stroumboulopoulos hosted the American reality television talent show, The One: Making a Music Star that aired on ABC in the United States, and CBC Television in Canada.
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George Stroumboulopoulos' hour-long talk series for CNN, George Stroumboulopoulos, aired during the late spring and the summer of 2013.
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On March 10,2014, Rogers Media, which had acquired exclusive national media rights to the National Hockey League, officially announced that George Stroumboulopoulos would serve as the main host of Hockey Night in Canada, beginning in October 2014, replacing Ron MacLean.
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Viewers surveyed upon his introduction felt that he was not a "credible" successor to Ron MacLean, In a move which the Toronto Star speculated was meant to help re-gain viewership lost over the first two seasons of the contract, Sportsnet announced on June 27,2016, that George Stroumboulopoulos had been let go from Rogers, and that Ron MacLean would be reinstated.
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George Stroumboulopoulos recently partnered with Apple Books to launch the book club "Strombo's Lit".
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George Stroumboulopoulos is a strong advocate of social issues and has been actively partaking in many global initiatives and involved with numerous charitable initiatives, such as hosting the 'HipHop4Africa' Mandela Children's Fund Canada and CapAids February 2006 Toronto benefit.
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George Stroumboulopoulos has traveled to the Arctic for a special on literacy, youth culture and the loss of Inuit identity.
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George Stroumboulopoulos has been to Sudan with War Child Canada, and Zambia for a World AIDS Day special documentary.
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George Stroumboulopoulos joined other prominent Canadians in sharing views on global issues in the March 2010 issue of Upstream Journal magazine.
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George Stroumboulopoulos was executive producer and co-host of Canada for Haiti television with Cheryl Hickey and Ben Mulroney to help the humanitarian crisis in Haiti after a devastating earthquake.
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George Stroumboulopoulos managed to raise over $27 million for the victims of Haitian earthquake.
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George Stroumboulopoulos presented at Vancouver's EPIC Expo in May 2011 where he showed support for Fair Trade and the work of Fair Trade Vancouver.
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George Stroumboulopoulos was selected by the United Nations World Food Programme as an official ambassador in March, 2011, thus being named the first Canadian National Ambassador Against Hunger.
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George Stroumboulopoulos is a fan of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
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George Stroumboulopoulos received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for his role in the comedy web series The Communist's Daughter.