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Anton Koschany, Executive Producer, W5
Date: Thursday Aug. 13, 2009 12:28 PM ET
Anton Koschany is a television journalist with 36 years experience as a news magazine and documentary producer, news correspondent and program manager. Prior to joining W5 as Senior Producer in 1998, Koschany was CTV NATIONAL NEWS' Toronto Bureau Chief.
Koschany has produced the last seven installments of CTV's annual interview A CONVERSATION WITH THE PRIME MINISTER in addition to his role as Executive Producer of CTV's acclaimed biographical documentary TRIUMPH AND TREACHERY: THE BRIAN MULRONEY STORY.
As a reporter at CTV, his investigative reports exposed Agriculture Canada's international collusion in developing high-nicotine strains of tobacco, failings in Canada's witness protection program, and failure of the Canadian government to live up to international treaties regarding the death penalty. He also obtained exclusive interviews in the Guy Paul Morin wrongful conviction case.
In 2001 and 2005, while Koschany was senior-producer of W5, the program took home two Gemini awards for Best News Information Series. He has received seven Gemini Award nominations and W5 has won several Silver World Medals from the New York Festivals in addition to numerous RTNDA awards throughout his tenure as Senior Producer. In 2000 he was honoured by the Genesis Awards for the documentary CRUEL CAGES, exposing the horrible conditions at roadside zoos in Canada.
He joined CTV in 1993 as a Field Producer for W5. Koschany also spent 12 years at the CBC as a producer with THE FIFTH ESTATE.
Koschany began his career as an assignment editor and reporter at BCTV (the then-CTV affiliate) in Vancouver where he created the first Canadian television labour beat and worked for Jack Webster - the legendary Vancouver journalist and talk radio/television host.
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