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3 days ago
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Canadian Talk Show Host Dini Petty Returning To TV Aged 80 With ‘Trailblazing Talks'
EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Canadian talk show host and broadcaster Dini Petty is returning to network TV aged 80. She will host the one-hour special Trailblazing Talks on Canadian channel The News Forum this summer, with production completed in Toronto. More from Deadline 'Amazing Race Canada' Maker Insight Productions Promotes Trio To Co-Chief Content Officer Roles 'Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent' Producer Cameron Pictures Hires Karen Tsang From Pier 21 From Wrexham To The Rink: Edmonton Oilers Docuseries 'The Great Ones' Coming From Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort In the show, Petty will have candid conversations with Canadian Senator, former rower and three-time Olympian gold-medalist Marnie McBean, and actor, producer and Reelworld Screen Institute founder and Executive Director Tonya Williams. She will also share highlights of memorable moments from her original interviews with both guests, who appeared on The Dini Petty Show, the Canadian daytime talk show that ran from 1989 to 1999. Petty is one of Canada's most recognizable broadcasters and radio hosts, known for her trademark pink jumpsuits. While working for Canadian radio station CKEY, she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter, clocking 5,000 hours of flight. She went on to be co-anchor of CityTV's newscast CityPulse News at 6 before establishing herself as a major daytime talk show host on the ratings-winning CityLine before moving to CTFO (part of CTV) for The Dini Petty Show. She later fronted a radio show and returned to guest-host episodes of CityLine, which remains on air. In total, her journalism won her her six CanPro Awards for Television Excellence and the prestigious NATPE International Iris Award. She also landed four Gemini nominations and took home the Canadian of Distinction Award. In recent years, she has performed a one-woman play, A Broad View, about her own life. She also appeared in Canadian short film Boundless, whose creator, Kate Campbell, is showrunner of Trailblazing Talks. 'My first television appearance was at age 12. It was not a good beginning, and I swore I'd never go into the business, but fate had other plans,' said Petty. 'Now, 68 years later, at age 80, I'm back.' Campbell is the creator and showrunner of Trailblazing Talks. The actor, vocalist and producer has appeared on screen in Oscar-nominated feature Gone Girl and played a prosecutor in the fourth season of CBS series in the Dark. Other roles have come in The Murdoch Mysteries, April Mullen's Badsville and Bell Fibe TV series BIKE. She is currently attached to direct two films, women-driven psychological thriller Satisfaction and Green Mountain State, which was a finalist in the 2022 Sundance Writer's Lab. Campbell executive produces alongside the former VP and General Manager of Discovery Channel Canada, Ken MacDonald, who is known for commissioning a suite of successful Canadian shows such as Highway Thru Hell, Heavy Rescue 401, Canada's Worst Driver, Coldwater Cowboys and Frontier. Petty and Marina Cordoni of Marina Cordoni Entertainment are also exec producers on Trailblazing Talks. Former broadcaster and CRTC commissioner Martha Wilson is a consulting producer. 'The time is now for a new kind of conversation, one that honors the women who've shaped our world,' said Campbell. 'I created this one-hour special to celebrate broadcast icon Dini Petty's powerful return to television at 80, alongside two remarkable trailblazers from her past.''Dini Petty is truly a force of nature,' added MacDonald. 'It's such a joy to see her back in front of the cameras where she rightfully belongs. We are honored that she has chosen to step back into the spotlight to host this exciting new program.' The News Forum is a privately-owned Canadian national network focused on integrity, balance, inclusion of voices and promotion of democracy – all of which have become increasingly important to the country in 2025 following Donald Trump's threats to turn Canada into the 51st state. During his successful election campaign, Liberal leader Mark Carney's pledged to further fund public broadcaster the CBC to protect news journalism. Best of Deadline 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
Business Journals
09-05-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
Faster connections: PG&E upgrades new-business process in South Bay and Central Coast
Our goal at PG&E is to help California continue to lead the way in economic growth, while maintaining a safe, reliable and clean energy system. These ambitions are on full display in and around Silicon Valley, where we're at the forefront of efforts to meet surging data center demand and shape the net-zero world of the future. To serve these regional aspirations, we've made huge progress in a key part of our business. Working collaboratively for two years with the California Building Industry Association (CBIA), our service planning and design team is connecting more new customers than ever to our electric grid. We set a goal in 2024 to connect 9,000 new-business customers throughout our service area. We delivered way beyond that: We completed a company-record 13,640 new-business connections last year. That means thousands of new homes, new and expanded businesses and clean energy projects across our service area. In PG&E's South Bay and Central Coast Region, we completed more than 3,400 new-business connections in 2024, including: 2,438 residential projects 406 commercial projects 273 electric vehicle charging points In San Jose, PG&E completed 25% more new-business jobs in 2024 than in 2023. We're on pace to improve connections even more in 2025. In the South Bay and Central Coast alone, new-business connections were up 15.4% year over year in the first quarter. Examples of projects we've energized in our region in the last 18 months include the Rivian Service and Demo Center on North King Road in San Jose; CityLine, a mixed-use development that is helping revive downtown Sunnyvale with new homes and stores; and a Sunnyvale accessory dwelling unit that models a new way to develop ADUs. We're thrilled to have helped bring these and other projects to life for our 1.16 million electric customers in the South Bay and Central Coast. We're also excited about how improved new-business connections will help us continue to meet San Jose's economic ambitions in 2025 and beyond. expand Data centers and a net-zero community In recent months, we've launched two major initiatives to serve Silicon Valley. Our cluster study shows how we plan to serve 5.5 gigawatts of new data center energy demand over the next decade. That demand will include 740 megawatts in and around Silicon Valley. Our second major initiative is our work on a net-zero community. The San Jose community will pair three data centers with up to 4,000 homes to help create a sustainable downtown. A district energy system will use excess heat from the data centers to heat and cool surrounding buildings. This initiative represents a bold, new approach to energy, housing and economic transformation. As a key infrastructure partner for California, PG&E is proud to play a pivotal role in this effort — integrating advances in data centers and AI with district energy to build more resilient, low-carbon communities. A fast and efficient new-business connections process will be key to serving these and other new customers. That's why we've spent more than two years talking to customers and industry groups to better understand the needs of our new-business customers. The feedback we've received is transforming our new-business processes. Our partnership with the CBIA is one great example. We signed a memorandum of understanding with the CBIA in July 2023 to improve how we work with builders and developers. In monthly meetings with CBIA members, we talk about how we're doing — and how we can keep improving. With the CBIA's help, we've set up systems to schedule construction work faster; escalate issues on complicated projects; and allow interim power connections where there are long lead times for new service. We also launched a New Business Program Management Office to focus full-time on improving our processes. Those efforts have paid off for our customers: The six-month design backlog of early 2023 fell to less than a month by the end of 2024. Improvements to the application process cut the number of required documents by more than half. We're also listening to developers in Silicon Valley. Our Developer Roundtables provided real estate leaders insight into how PG&E is improving our processes and meeting demand for energy. Our new Power Hour series, in collaboration with the San Jose Chamber of Commerce, aims to address key issues shaping the future of San Jose. We will continue to work with lawmakers, regulators and other stakeholders to ensure we have the funding and accountability to connect more new customers. We're especially excited about opportunities to connect new customers in the South Bay and Central Coast to help the region sustain its vibrant growth trajectory. We look forward to working hand in hand with you as we strive to meet the economic and climate goals of California and its residents.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Syracuse Public Works takes advantage of warm weather, filling potholes
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Syracuse Public Works crews are giving the snow plows a rest for now. 'There is nothing good in that bill': Retired deputy superintendent speaks out against HALT Act & striker firings Syracuse hits 70° for first time in 2025! Republicans are working to avoid a government shutdown NOAA set to fire 1,029 more employees House lawmakers raise questions about the future of college sports 'Right now, you're just fixing as many potholes as you can, and it,s all across the Northeast,' said Ann Fordock, first deputy commissioner of DPW. They take less than a minute to patch, but for now, it's only a short-term repair. 'We fix all winter when we can. But you can only do cold patch right now, because the asphalt plants aren't open,' said Fordock. But, hopefully, by next month, they will be open. That's when crews can begin hot patching, which is a permanent fix. However, it all depends on the weather. 'If we're still getting snow storms, it makes it harder for an asphalt plant to open,' said Fordock. That's why crews are taking advantage of the mild weather and getting a jump start on filling up as many potholes as they can. DPW sends two crews out daily to patch up potholes found in both residential neighborhoods and on city roads. 'We appreciate the warm weather, and we're going to get caught up on these potholes as fast as we can. Everyone in the Northeast is struggling with potholes. It's a normal occurrence of living in winter weather,' Fordock said. It doesn't the matter the size or how deep the pothole is, DPW is urging residents to report one if you see one. 'We have an app, and so that's the City Line app that they can download, and it can geotag the location they are at to enter their address right there and then or they can call City Line,' said Fordock. Helping to fill the gaps to avoid major damage to your cars. Click here to report a pothole. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
