Sheldon Turcott

Sheldon Turcott (1936 - February 18, 2000) was a Canadian television journalist and news anchor, best known as a reporter and host on CBC Television for four decades. He was a frequent contributor to The National, working at times as a newsreader, foreign correspondent, and executive producer of the program.From 1985 until his retirement in 1995 he was the regular newsreader on CBCs Midday program. For a brief period prior to that, Turcott commuted to Regina each week to anchor CBKTs 6pm newscast, an effort to boost the stations nearly non-existent ratings.He was also host of the quiz series TimeChase, and appeared in the feature film Murder at 1600.

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