<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><a href="https://abc7chicago.com/about/newsteam/ravi-baichwal/" target="_blank">Ravi Baichwal</a> is an anchor at ABC 7 Chicago and </span><span>talks about his hockey documentary <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/press-release/summit-72-cbcs-original-four-part-documentary-series-marking-the-50th-anniv " target="_blank">Summit 72</a>; his hometown </span><span>Toronto and Canadian culture; </span><span>his radio career at CKNW in Vancouver before he went to CTV National News, then doing CTV and being on the air at CFRB radio in Toronto (where I previously interviewed <a href="https://podcast.radiogirl.us/2010/09/jerry-agar-conservative-talker-in-us.html">Jerry Agar</a> and <a href="https://podcast.radiogirl.us/2013/08/john-moore-interesting-canadian-radio.html">John Moore</a>); </span></span>filling in at WLS Radio; why he thinks radio is fun and important; doing TV vs radio; his accent; corruption; why fair pay is important; how he got into media; advice for getting into TV news; challenges he faced; why TV news is still important; diversity; perseverance; what makes a good anchor; elements of a story; what is integrity; why he likes working in Chicago; why he loves radio, and much more!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is from a livestream that we did; </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTL7QaoNfc&t=1s" style="background-color: white; color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">watch the full interview here.</a> But there is also extra content that wasn't in the livestream about his radio career (done in a separate follow-up interview specially for the Radiogirl podcast).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Click the link below to play, or download it by right-clicking (on a PC) or holding down the CTRL key and clicking on it (for Mac).</span><span> </span></span></p><p><a href="http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG193.mp3" style="background-color: white; color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG193.mp3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZqng1s2v9E " target="_blank">Note: this is the video</a> he didn’t want me to play during the interview: a van crashed into the ABC 7 studio while he was on the air (back in 2007, just one year after he started anchoring there).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><div><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch the Radiogirl livestreams and videos at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/radiogirlpodcast" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Radiogirl FB page</a> and on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MargaretLarkin/videos" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">YouTube</a> (also live-streaming on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/radiogirlpod" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Radiogirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/metrolingua" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Metrolingua Twitter</a>, and my own Fakebook page).</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you like what I'm doing, <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/metrolingua" style="color: #cc1177; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Buy Me a Coffee</a>...thanks!</span></i></div>
