Prior Smith

Prior Smith
Born	1944 (age 72–73) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	broadcaster

Prior Smith (born 1944) is a Canadian broadcaster who owns and operates the network radio program Canada Calling and produces the Canadian syndicated radio show "Grapeline".

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith began his career in radio broadcasting with brief stints as a news reporter/announcer at CKLY-Lindsay, Ontario, (1966) CHYR Leamington/Windsor, Ontario (1967) and CJSS Cornwall, Ontario (1968) before moving to CJAD Montreal, Quebec in 1968. After one year at CJAD he moved to the legendary CFRB in Toronto in 1969. He worked as a general assignment news reporter/newscaster for the next 18 years.

While working in news at CFRB, Smith branched into radio network syndication creating and distributing a number of national radio programs, the most prominent of which is Grapeline featuring hockey commentator Don Cherry and sports broadcaster Brian Williams. The program, the longest running syndicated radio show in Canadian history has aired nationwide for 33 years, and for more than two decades on Toronto's CJCL, the flagship of The Fan 590/Sportsnet radio network.

Also during his time at CFRB, Smith created Canada Calling, a syndicated radio news program to serve traveling and vacationing Canadians across the southern United States.

Canada Calling is a daily radio newscast prepared in southern Ontario throughout the winter months. It is syndicated to a network of radio stations across the U.S. Sunbelt and the Bahamas, serving the more than three million Canadian vacationers who travel south each winter.

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