Percy Saltzman hosted numerous public affairs programs on CBC and, in 1969, along with Lloyd Robertson, he hosted ten days of coverage of the first Moon landing for CBC Television.
15 Facts About Percy Saltzman
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Percy Saltzman was the eldest of four children of Solomon and Elizabeth Saltzman.
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Percy Saltzman was a good student and won the Governor-General Lord Willingdon's Silver Medal for coming in first in the province in his final high school exams.
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Percy Saltzman was an armchair socialist, but that didn't translate into action.
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Percy Saltzman moved to Montreal and studied medicine at McGill University School of Medicine until 1935 when he met and married his first wife, Rose Kogan, in 1935.
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Percy Saltzman dropped out of medical school around this time and took a series of odd jobs such as working in a clothing store, an envelope opener in a puzzle contest and as a waiter before entering the printing business.
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Percy Saltzman then moved with her to Toronto in 1937 where he worked as a Linotype operator at Eveready Printing for several years.
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Percy Saltzman would retain his position with the Dominion Weather Service for 25 years.
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Percy Saltzman was the first person to appear on CBC Toronto English-language television when the service was launched on September 8,1952.
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Percy Saltzman was a staple at CBC through the following decades and was initially paid $10 for each appearance.
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Percy Saltzman left the network in 1972 to become a co-host of CTV's new morning show Canada AM.
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Percy Saltzman used no notes or teleprompters relating his forecasts entirely from memory.
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Percy Saltzman's grandson Aaron Saltzman is a reporter, first with CBC Television in Calgary and now in Toronto.
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Paul Percy Saltzman is an Emmy Award-winning film and TV producer and director whose most recent film was the documentary Prom Night in Mississippi, featuring actor Morgan Freeman.
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Percy Saltzman was the nephew of Communist Party of Canada organizer Sam Carr.