George Stroumboulopoulos Quotes

Canada, Media Personality
August 16, 1972

George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canadian media personality. He is best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic and being the host of the CBC Television talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight from 2005 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Rogers. He is currently a radio host on CBC Music.

I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.

George Stroumboulopoulos
- Job
- Audience
- Entertained
I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.

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- Questions
- Plan
- Interview

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

George Stroumboulopoulos
- Idea
- Celebrity
- Interview
News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

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A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter

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- Career
- Sport
- Reporter
I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

George Stroumboulopoulos
- Professional
- Experiences
Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

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- Music
- Change
- Sports
I'm pretty rough around the edges, but I'm a very open person.

George Stroumboulopoulos
- Person
- Open
- Rough

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

George Stroumboulopoulos
- People
- Trust
- Listen
I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

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