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Barrie Ward Saskatchewan Writer and Broadcast Instructor

Barrie O. Ward Canadian Broadcaster and Writer/Teacher is a professional communicator and trainer in both the public and private sectors of Radio & TV.

Barrie has long been one of the most easily recognized voices on the Saskatchewan radio scene, He started his broadcasting career with CFQC radio in Saskatoon in 1968 where he hosted the “Waxworks” program at age 19. He was hired cold off the street the day he finished his final exams at the University of Saskatchewan and found himself on-air just 6 hours later. This was an introduction to radio that ’shocked’ him into a quick understanding of the ‘timeliness’ of the business and what skills it called for. He worked at CFQC Radio/TV up to 1972 polishing his skills in all professional, technical and social aspects of broadcasting fundamentals and honing his media writing and reporting capabilities.

After serving a brief stint as the program manager and news director of CFMC-FM Saskatoon in 1972 , he became an announcer/host at CBKST - TV (CBC) Saskatoon. Barrie then moved to La Ronge in Northern Saskatchewan in 1973 where he hosted and produced ‘Northern News’ for the Government of Saskatchewan in the early 1970’s. He was also wrote a weekly newspaper column for the La Ronge Northerner and delivered a weekly local/cable TV newscast.

He took a hiatus from broadcasting and moved back to Saskatoon in 1976 to work for the Saskatchewan Council for Crippled Children and Adults (SCCCA) for three years as a rehabilitation counsellor and vocational evaluator. He returned to his broadcasting roots in 1979 at the invitation of Roy Currie (the then manager of CJWW Saskatoon) an adult contemporary radio station. Barrie quickly found himself hosting shows around the clock and started the stations first regular country & western music show prior to the station changing its format to Country 24/7. Barrie became a mentor to younger broadcasters and started his own communications company shortly afterward with a focus on training. He relocated to Weldon Saskatchewan in the early 1980’s and renewed his work for the fledgling aboriginal broadcast industry when he began working for Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. He has continued as a communications mentor to dozens of individuals over the past three decades.

Barrie has been a Writer and Teacher in radio/TV arts since the early 1980’s and has helped to develop and advance aboriginal radio and in particular MBC Radio over the last couple of decades. He has been professionally and publicly recognized with four different major awards for his lifetime contributions to Aboriginal Broadcasting.

== Personal Life ==

Barrie’s personal life saw him married in 1971 and he and his wife Elisabeth (a teacher) have two grown and married children - both with successful professional careers.

Barrie served three terms as the Mayor of his small residential community and has served multiple terms as an executive on the Boards of Directors of various civic organizations. He has on occasion taken a few breaks from the media over the past four decades to continue work as a vocational counsellor and also to expand his ‘amateur’ wildlife artists skills.

Barrie has been the recipient of two major citations for exemplary personal conduct by the City of Saskatoon and the Order of ****. John of Jerusalem.

Source - Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation ([http://www.mbcradio.com/index3.html]) and the Village of Weldon Saskatchewan.

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