Chris Van Vliet
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Van Vliet reporting from the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards, 2012
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Christopher Van Vliet May 19, 1983 Pickering, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Television Personality, Radio Personality and Journalist |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Website | www |
Christopher "Chris" Van Vliet (born May 19, 1983) is a Canadian television/radio personality, professional film critic, and competitive sport fisherman currently living and working in Miami, Florida.
He is an entertainment reporter for FOX affiliate WSVN in Miami on the show Deco Drive. Prior to coming to Miami, he worked at WOIO in Cleveland and was a radio personality on WDOK. He is also known for his work in his native Canada as the former co-host of the Sun TV show Inside Jam! and the co-host of Razer's (now MTV2) 969 program.
Van Vliet serves as a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
Van Vliet was born in Pickering, Ontario where he attended Pine Ridge Secondary School. He attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he completed the university's communication studies program. While attending he held jobs at Rogers Community Television and AM570 News in Kitchener. His first on-air job was with CHEX-TV in Peterborough, Ontario, where he was a news reporter and videographer immediately following graduation.
Following his early days in Peterborough, Van Vliet eventually moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was hired as a host and producer for Razer Television's (what would eventually become MTV2) 969 program.969 aired from November 2004 until it was cancelled in 2007. While there, he also hosted Razer News, a celebrity news program. In 2007, Van Vliet was voted as the third favorite Vancouver TV personality by the readers of TV Week Magazine.
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