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CBC Program Guide > Personalities A-Z > Wendy Mesley
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Wendy Mesley - Marketplace
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Wendy Mesley is the co-host of CBC News: Marketplace, CBC Television's award-winning prime-time investigative consumer show.
Mesley began her broadcast journalism career in 1976 as a radio reporter in Toronto. She moved to television in 1979, first with CTV's CFCF in Montreal, then moving to CBC-TV as a legislative reporter for local news and CBC News: The National, based in Quebec City. During this six-year period she covered the first referendum on sovereignty and some of the most fascinating politicians of our times, such as Jean Drapeau, Robert Bourassa, Jacques Parizeau, Rene Levesque and Pierre Trudeau.
In 1985, Mesley moved to Ottawa as a parliamentary correspondent for CBC-TV's The National. During this intensely political time, Mesley reported on such stories as the battles over free trade, the GST and Meech Lake.
In addition, she was a frequent contributor to CBC Television's Sunday Report panel, and soon after became Sunday Report's anchor. She continues to be a frequent back-up anchor for CBC-TV's national news programs.
In 1994, Mesley helped create and hosted CBC Television's Gemini Award-winning Undercurrents, a program that examined the media/marketing world. Lasting six seasons, Undercurrents was relevant, intelligent, fast-paced and fearless – a weekly journalistic program that brought the traditional hard reporting of a current affairs show to media culture.
Mesley was awarded Gemini Awards for Best Host in a News or Talk Program or Series in 1999 and 2001 for her work on Undercurrents. The show itself also won a Gemini for Best Information Program and garnered a Gold Medal for Best Magazine Format at the New York Festival's International Television Awards. In 2001, Mesley worked on CBC Television's investigative program, CBC News: Disclosure. In 2002, she joined CBC News: Marketplace as the Toronto-based co-host.
Want to know more? Visit the Marketplace website:
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/
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