1. Lloyd Robertson was born on January 19,1934 and is a Canadian journalist and former news anchor who is special correspondent on CTV's weekly magazine series, W5.
21 Facts About Lloyd Robertson
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Lloyd Robertson's name was the basis for the satirical news anchor character Floyd Robertson, portrayed by Joe Flaherty on the Canadian TV comedy series SCTV.
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Lloyd Robertson was born in Stratford, Ontario, the son of Lillie Francis and George Henderson Lloyd Robertson.
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Lloyd Robertson's father had eight children with his first wife; after she died, he remarried and had two sons, Gordon and Lloyd; Lloyd was the youngest child.
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Lloyd Robertson's father worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, while his mother was a homemaker.
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Lloyd Robertson's father was of Scottish descent, while his mother emigrated from England.
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Lloyd Robertson started his broadcasting career in 1952 at CJCS radio.
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Lloyd Robertson started working after school on Saturdays as an operator, spinning 78 rpm records, and read the news at midnight before he signed off.
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Lloyd Robertson completed high school and continued to work at CJCS until he moved to CJOY in Guelph in 1954.
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Lloyd Robertson applied for CBWT-TV in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1956, his first-ever TV job.
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Lloyd Robertson mostly did local television until December 25,1956, which was his first national broadcast.
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From 1976 to 1984, Lloyd Robertson co-anchored the CTV National News with Harvey Kirck.
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When Kirck retired from the anchor desk in 1984, Lloyd Robertson became the senior news anchor for CTV.
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Since 2004, Lloyd Robertson has served as one of the hosts of CTV's current affairs program W5, alternating with CTV's lead weekend anchor Sandie Rinaldo.
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In February 2010, Lloyd Robertson denied rumours of his impending retirement as a "work of fiction" during an appearance on Vancouver talk radio station CKNW.
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However, on the CTV National News broadcast of July 8,2010, Lloyd Robertson officially announced he would be leaving the anchor chair in the latter half of 2011.
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Lloyd Robertson has stated that he will continue on in various capacities at the network and in public life including being host of W5.
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On September 1,2011, after 41 years as a national news anchor at both the CBC and CTV, Lloyd Robertson anchored CTV News for the last time.
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Lloyd Robertson married his high school sweetheart, Nancy Barrett, in July 1956.
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On March 29,2018, Lloyd Robertson was involved in a multi-vehicle collision on the Don Valley Parkway.
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Lloyd Robertson, who was 77 years old at the time of his retirement from the CTV News team, holds the record of being the oldest TV news anchor in network television and the oldest news anchor in Canada.