The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Valerie Pringle Retires

**Posted by SpinningWheel** April 3, 2025 5:48 pm

I landed on her Facebook page today and it says she'll be on The Agenda with Steve Paikin @ 8pm tonight to talk about her 5 decade broadcasting and journalism career. Lately she's been hosting a program called 'Canada Files' on PBS

Tune in to find out more!

Last edited by SpinningWheel (April 3, 2025 5:52 pm)

**Posted by newsguy1** April 3, 2025 9:23 pm

When I first came to Toronto I heard and saw her and could not figure out what appeal she had.
She seemed quite so-so and mediocre.
It always surprised me that she moved up and up into better and better gigs while still presenting as unremarkable and nondescript.
But then this was also the era in Toronto broadcasting when news anchors were predominantly bland and blue eyed (like CFTO at the time).
I was used to Vancouver radio and TV which was always full of hosts and news anchors who had some oomph to them.
Never met Ms Pringle and I'm sure she is a nice person, never heard a bad word about her.
She's just a sort of nobody to me.

**Posted by paterson1** April 3, 2025 10:36 pm

Thanks for posting about Valerie Pringle's interview tonight on TVO. Really enjoyed it, she has interviewed a lot of people over her long career. Interesting that she started at CFRB at 19 while at university as a Good News Reporter. She worked with all of the greats at RB. She even worked briefly with Steve Paikin while at CBC.

**Posted by turkeytop** April 4, 2025 12:38 am

Now I feel old. I remember when she was just a broadcasting student and doing guest spots on CFRB, back in the early 70s.

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**Posted by AspectRatio** April 4, 2025 8:00 am

Congrats to Valerie on a long career. Here's a June 1973 ad in The Toronto Star from CFRB, with Valerie listed under her maiden name, Valerie Whittingham.

**Posted by paterson1** April 4, 2025 8:30 am

That photo says a lot. CFRB hiring 8 student reporters for the summer in 1973. How many radio newsrooms have even one reporter now?

**Posted by mace** April 4, 2025 9:23 am

AspectRatio wrote:
Congrats to Valerie on a long career. Here's a June 1973 ad in The Toronto Star from CFRB, with Valerie listed under her maiden name, Valerie Whittingham.

I wonder how many of the other seven reporters ended up having a successful broadcast career.

**Posted by AspectRatio** April 4, 2025 9:35 am

mace wrote:
I wonder how many of the other seven reporters ended up having a successful broadcast career.

I recognized Terry Glecoff's name from his CBC association - he passed in 2014:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/terry-glecoff-former-cbc-calgary-anchor-dies-of-cancer-1.2872827

And Sue Prestedge did well with the CBC herself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Prestedge

**Posted by RadioActive** April 4, 2025 9:58 am

SpinningWheel wrote:
I landed on her Facebook page today and it says she'll be on The Agenda with Steve Paikin @ 8pm tonight to talk about her 5 decade broadcasting and journalism career. Lately she's been hosting a program called 'Canada Files' on PBS

Tune in to find out more!

If you missed it and are interested in seeing this, the entire 27 minutes is on the TVO website here.

**Posted by mace** April 4, 2025 10:54 am

RadioActive wrote:
SpinningWheel wrote:
I landed on her Facebook page today and it says she'll be on The Agenda with Steve Paikin @ 8pm tonight to talk about her 5 decade broadcasting and journalism career. Lately she's been hosting a program called 'Canada Files' on PBS

Tune in to find out more!
If you missed it and are interested in seeing this, the entire 27 minutes is on the TVO website here.

Wonderful Interview. Thanks for posting the link.

**Posted by RadioActive** April 15, 2025 9:49 am

Her final on camera appearance and interview comes with a very familiar face - and not from a Canadian source.

Valerie Pringle is signing off for good - but not before one last interview with Justin Trudeau