Alex Pierson
{{short description|Canadian broadcaster (born 1971)}}
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Alex Pierson (born October 17, 1971http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1222202720001 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612010405/http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1222202720001 |date=2014-06-12 }} Sun News Network video in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian broadcaster.
Biography
She began working in television in 1995 at CHCH-TV in Hamilton, and later became an employee of CKAL-TV in Calgary. A few years later she returned and began working at CKVR-TV in Barrie, followed by her joining CITY-TV in Toronto.
For a few years she was the co-anchor of Toronto's 11 p.m. CityNews with Mark Dailey, as well as a reporter for CityNews at Six and cp24. She left Citytv in September 2006. After a hiatus from television news, she returned and joined CIII-TV as a reporter. After 4 years reporting on courts and crime and anchoring the weekend news, Pierson left to take an anchor position with Sun News Network.
In 2011, the Sun News Network announced Pierson would be co-host of The Roundtable, the network's morning show, along with Pat Bolland and Andrea Slobodian.{{cite web | date = | url = http://www.hamiltonmagazine.com/sitepages/?aid=3749&cn=About%20Face&an=ABOUT%20FACE%20%7c%20Morning%20Sun | title = Morning Sun: Alex Pierson | work = HamiltonMagazine.com | publisher = Sun Media | accessdate = 2011-12-12 }}{{cite news | url = http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/24/17744491.html | title = The Roundtable: 'A breakfast show with bite' | work = Toronto Sun | publisher = QMI Agency | date = 2011-03-24 | accessdate = 2011-12-12 }} and subsequently hosted AM Agenda and was host of Straight Talk until Sun News Network closed in early 2015.http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/shows/am-agenda.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510120501/http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/shows/am-agenda.html |date=2013-05-10 }} AM Agenda on Sun News Network.
Pierson works as a radio personality on 640 Toronto. She hosted an evening talk radio show, ON Point with Alex Pierson which was also syndicated for broadcast on Global News Radio 980 CFPL in London, Ontario and Global News Radio 900 CHML in Hamilton, Ontario. In 2024, she moved to afternoons.
References
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External links
- [https://globalnews.ca/author/alex-pierson/ GlobalNews bio page]
- [https://globalnews.ca/toronto/program/on-point-with-alex-pierson/ ON Point with Alex Pierson (Blog & Podcast page)]
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Category:Canadian television news anchors
Category:Mass media people from Hamilton, Ontario
Category:Canadian women television journalists
Category:Canadian talk radio hosts