Thanks for stumbling onto my site and clicking on my bio… I’m surprised you’d even click on this page cause my story really isn’t that exciting. However, if you found your way onto my page, saw my picture, and said “Hey! I know that guy from somewhere!” or “Why does this geek look so familiar?”, the answer you’re looking for is probably somewhere below.
I’m a Canadian born radio and television, producer, host and writer. I attended the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University, and got my start in broadcasting while still in school by volunteering in the world of radio for a wrestling & mixed martial arts program called The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling on The FAn 590. I was a part of The LAW for nearly 20-years, moving up from intern to Executive Producer and host of the show, a position I held until the show’s cancellation in 2017, which then prompted me to create my own wrestling radio show Sunday Night’s Main Event.
Along with spending my weekends working in radio, my weekday work took me to the world of television. After graduating from Ryerson, I also landed a gig as the host and producer of Global Television’s BANG TV; a guy-geared weekly look at the world of music and extreme sports.
From there, I worked as a host and producer for a variety of TV programs such as Teens Dating on Global Television, Summit of Life on MenTV, and Tuner Transformation on Fox’s SPEED Channel, but it was in the spring of 2005 that I lucked into an amazing opportunity as the Executive Producer and first ever host of BITE Television.
BITE launched in May of 2005 evolving from a short form programming channel into what was described as Canada’s version of SPIKE TV, using the slogan of “Where A.D.D is A-OK!” I got the opportunity to craft an entire network that aimed at guys like me… it was like SCTV, but it was real.
For 7-years I was the “BITE TV guy”, both on and off camera… and I think it went pretty well, oh and so did the Emmy people when the station caught some attention in 2007 winning an Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Channel!
BITE also happened to be the place where I met an intern by the name of Matt Chin. Little did I know Matt would become my on-screen partner for more than a decade.
It wasn’t long before that intern turned into my co-host and together we created, produced, edited and hosted (remember, the station had very tiny budgets, so we did it all) BITE’s first ever half-hour series The Conventioneers. The show debuted in January of 2006, and we produced over 100 episodes and also got the chance to travel all across North America to some very very bizarre conventions.
During my time at BITE TV, I also managed to find my way back to my previous broadcast home at Global Television and but this time as the host of the national Canadian game show Brain Battle!
Brain Battle was a one hour long, LIVE, daily game show that aired nationally across Canada, 5 days a week! The show prompted callers to “call in to win” money and prizes.
From the su
ccess of Brain Battle, I found a niche as Canada’s Game Show Guru and also hosted several other game shows such as PopQ on E! Network, Think You Know $oaps and Time Shift Trivia on Global, and Door to Door on the Travel Channel.
In the fall of 2010, all the game show practice came in handy as myself and my long-time comedy partner Matt Chin were chosen to be the hosts of the Nickelodeon & YTV competition show SPLATALOT!
After two seasons of Splatalot, my work in youth tv continued as I had the good fortune of being cast of the host for the reboot of one of Canada’s longest running and most beloved television programs Tiny Talent Time.
You can now hear me every week as the host of Sunday Morning Trivia on Newstalk 1010 and Sunday Night’s Main Event on TSN 1150, and keep an eye out while you’re watching TV as I tend to pop up in a commercial or two.
Thanks for reading (and clearly having too much time on your hands)
Jason
