Brent Bambury

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Brent Bambury (born 1960) is a Canadian radio and television personality. He has hosted a number of radio and television programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since the 1980s, including Brave New Waves, Midday and Day 6. A native of Saint John, New Brunswick, Bambury began his career with the CBC in 1979 as a reporter for CBD-FM in Saint John, later moving to the station in Halifax as a reporter while studying English at Dalhousie University. He then moved to Montreal, becoming a correspondent for CBC Stereo's Brave New Waves while pursuing a master's degree at McGill University, but dropped his studies when he was offered the job of permanent host in 1985. The show, which aired nightly at 11:00 pm, was one of Canada's leading outlets for alternative rock and other countercultural programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the early 1990s, Bambury was also an entertainment reporter for CBC television's Midday. In 1995, Bambury became the show's cohost, replacing Kevin...

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