John Radford is a Canadian broadcaster who briefly served as chairman of TVOntario

TVOntario

TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...

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Radford was private broadcaster owning radio stations in eastern Ontario. Radford had served on the board of TVOntario

TVOntario

TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...

 for nine years before being appointed the broadcaster's chairman of TVO in May 1985 by the short-lived Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

 government of Premier

Premier of Ontario

The Premier of Ontario is the first Minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario. The Premier is appointed as the province's head of government by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and presides over the Executive council, or Cabinet. The Executive Council Act The Premier of Ontario...

 Frank Miller

Frank Miller (politician)

Frank Stuart Miller, was a Canadian politician, who served as the 19th Premier of Ontario for four months in 1985.-Early life and political career:...

. Radler had links with the Conservative party having been a Tory organizer and manager of Jennifer Cossitt

Jennifer Cossitt

Jennifer Cossitt was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. She was a business executive by career....

's campaign in a 1982 federal by-election

By-election

A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

. He was also a close friend of James Auld

James Alexander Charles Auld

James Alexander Charles Auld was an Ontario political figure. He represented Leeds in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1954 to 1981 as a Progressive Conservative member....

, a former Tory cabinet minister. Following the defeat of the Miller government, and its replacement by a new Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

 government led by David Peterson

David Peterson

David Robert Peterson, PC, O.Ont was the 20th Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years....

, Radler was fired in September 1985 and replaced by Bernard Ostry

Bernard Ostry

Bernard A. Ostry, was a Canadian author, philanthropist, and civil servant, who is best known for being chair and CEO of TVOntario....

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