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Fitzroy Gordon
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Fitzroy Anthony Gordon (19 March 1954 – 30 April 2019) was a Jamaican-Canadian broadcaster who spent more than a decade winning a frequency for a community that did not have one. Born in St Andrew, Jamaica, he built his Toronto career at CHIN Radio, where he presented Dr. Love, and left in 1998 to pursue a broadcast licence serving Greater Toronto's Caribbean and African communities.
The CRTC eventually approved his Intercity Broadcasting Network, and after three weeks of testing G98.7 FM went to air on 28 November 2011 with Jimmy Cliff's "I Can See Clearly Now" and a prayer from Gordon — the second Canadian station aimed specifically at Black and Caribbean listeners. Its call letters, CKFG, carry his initials.
He presented Grapevine on his own station. He suffered a stroke in September 2017 and was in poor health thereafter, dying in a Toronto hospital in the early hours of 30 April 2019, aged 65.
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- Broadcast Dialogue, "Fitzroy Gordon, founder of G98.7 Toronto, dead at 65"; CBC News; Exclaim!; Jamaica Observer, "Station owner Fitzroy Gordon dies in Canada" (1 May 2019).
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