Anton Koschany
| Anton Koschany | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anton Koschany August 16, 1953 Linz, Austria |
| Occupation | Television, News producer |
| Children | 3 |
Anton Koschany, (born August 16, 1953 in Linz, Austria) is the Executive Producer of CTV W5 and the network's News Elections Unit.
Anton Koschany is a television journalist with 41 years experience as a newsmagazine and documentary producer, news correspondent and program manager. During his career he has covered Canadian, American, local, national and international stories. For the past sixteen years he has managed W5 - Canada's most-watched and North America's longest-running newsmagazine program- first as Senior Producer and now as Executive Producer.
Koschany is also Executive Producer of CTV Elections, producing the federal election broadcast in 2011 and overseeing, on behalf of the network, provincial and local elections. He has been Executive Producer of the annual A Conversation with the Prime Minister – overseeing the annual Christmas-time interview with four Canadian Prime Ministers until the PMO refused CTV's requests in 2012 and 2013.
In 2006 Koschany was Executive Producer of Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story, CTV’s acclaimed biographical documentary about former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Co-produced with Quebec network TVA, the documentary was presented as a two-hour special on CTV.
Prior to joining W5, from 1996 to 1998, Koschany was a correspondent for CTV News based at its Toronto Bureau, filing investigative reports and covering daily news, feature stories and Bay Street.
In addition to being Bureau Chief from 1994 to 1996, he filed live and taped reports as producer and correspondent for CTV News, Canada AM, and CTV News Inquiry investigative reports. He was also a back-up reporter for CTV News at the Vancouver Bureau, breaking numerous exclusive stories.
At CTV, his investigative reports exposed Agriculture Canada's assistance and 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.
While at CTV News, Koschany also reported for W5, using hidden cameras to expose how easily Canadian youth could obtain cigarettes unlawfully. From 1993-94, Koschany was a Senior Field Producer for W5 in Vancouver when Eric Malling was host, establishing the Vancouver bureau.
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