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Robert Hurst is a Canadian newscaster, television executive, and former president of CTV News.

Biography

Hurst was raised in Cooksville, Mississauga. He began to attain an interest in politics in 1960 whilst watching coverage of the nominating conventions during the 1960 United States presidential election campaign. At the University of Western Ontario, Hurst pursued a degree in liberal arts and graduate studies in journalism.^[1] He also became the school's head cheerleader, after neither their basketball and football teams invited him to tryouts.^[1]

One of Hurst's first forays into broadcasting was a segment for a local radio station, focusing on campus news. Hurst began working for CTV in January 1973, initially as a writer for its recently introduced morning showCanada AM. Later that year, he stepped down from the position, and became a city hall correspondent for CTV's Toronto station CFTO-TV. At the age of 26, fo