Keith Morrison was born on July 2,1947 and is a Canadian broadcast journalist.
13 Facts About Keith Morrison
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Keith Morrison joined CTV's Canada AM in 1973 as a newsreader and worked as a reporter and weekend anchor as well as a producer.
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Keith Morrison joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1982 as substitute anchor and Chief Political Correspondent for The Journal, the network's nightly public affairs program, remaining until 1986.
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Keith Morrison co-hosted Midday, the network's noon-hour newsmagazine that he helped to create, from 1984 to 1985.
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Keith Morrison moved to Los Angeles in 1986 as the 5 pm and 11 pm news anchor for KNBC-TV.
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Keith Morrison covered the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and later contributed highly acclaimed hour-long documentaries and magazine segments to various NBC programs while concurrently continuing as KNBC's anchor.
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Keith Morrison returned to Canada in 1992 to become co-anchor of the leading national morning news program, Canada AM on CTV.
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Keith Morrison was the substitute anchor for CTV National News and the heir apparent to anchor Lloyd Robertson until 1995, when he was ousted in a network shakeup.
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Keith Morrison returned to NBC in 1995 as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, his position as of 2023.
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Keith Morrison appeared as a newscaster in an episode of Seinfeld, "The Trip".
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In 1981, Keith Morrison married Suzanne Perry, a writer, consultant, one-time news anchor and political fundraiser who was press secretary to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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Keith Morrison has a son, from a previous marriage and was the stepfather of actor Matthew Perry, Suzanne's son from a previous marriage to actor John Bennett Perry.
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Keith Morrison's reporting style has been parodied on Saturday Night Live by cast member Bill Hader.