Dan Gallagher
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CBC Television
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music video
Music video
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program Video Hits from 1991 to 1993. In the 1980s he appeared on the Canadian
Canada
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music channel MuchMusic
MuchMusic
MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...
as a VJ and host of the Pepsi Power Hour
Pepsi Power Hour
The Pepsi Power Hour was a live one-hour program that aired on the MuchMusic television channel in Canada from 1986 to 1991. It ran once weekly every Thursday, until 1989 when a Tuesday hour was added. The show was dedicated to hard rock and heavy metal music videos, and showcased a variety of...
. In 1990 he hosted the game show Test Pattern
Test Pattern (TV series)
Test Pattern was the first game show on the Canadian television channel MuchMusic in the late from 1989 into the early 1990s. The Music and sound man was Bill St. Amour. The show's announcer was Bill Carroll . It occasionally featured Canadian musicians who were prominent at the time...
on the station.
He also guest-starred on the Canadian comedy show The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States...
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He later hosted beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
games on TSN
The Sports Network
The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...
, and was a featured contributor for Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada
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Dan attended L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute
L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute
L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute is a public high school in Toronto, located in north-east Scarborough. The motto of the school is Freedom with Responsibility. L'Amoreaux has an extended French program, and over three quarters of the students do not use English as their primary language...
in Scarborough in the mid 1970s and founded an in school radio station, Radio L'Am along with several other like minded friends. He also was active in student council activities.
In 1989, Dan Gallagher starred in the obscure low-budget horror anthology, Freakshow
Freakshow
Freakshow most commonly refers to:* A freak show, an exhibition of raritiesFreakshow or Freak show may also refer to:-In music::* Freakshow, a Britney Spears song featured on her 2007 studio album, Blackout...
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In 1991 Dan Gallagher was the in-stadium host of Toronto Argonauts
Toronto Argonauts
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football games at the SkyDome
Rogers Centre
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; he worked with a sidekick named Luc Casimiri.
He hosted various weekend talk programs on CFRB in Toronto. When he didn't arrive at work one Saturday in early 2001, he was found dead in his home by former Test Pattern co-host Bill Carroll Saturday afternoon after a sudden illness. It was believed that Gallagher had been battling pneumonia since a recent trip to Barbados.