CHUM credits the late Brian Linehan with having ‘helped put Citytv on the map.’ The TV host from Hamilton, ON, made his mark as a movie interviewer on fledgling Citytv Toronto’s City Lights in 1973. He gained fame by landing interviews with top Hollywood celebrities and then surprising them with the extent of his research.

Linehan received an ACTRA award in 1980 and a Gemini in 1999, and was a four-time host of the Genie Awards. Last year, he donated all of his files, video recordings, books and photos to the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Reference Library.

Linehan died earlier this year of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 59.