June 1, 2020

Carrie Doll: On Air and in The Chair

Carrie Doll: On Air and in The Chair

Carrie Doll was a guest in people's homes as the host of the 6pm News on CTV Edmonton until 2014. She tells her story.

I met Carrie Doll in the late 90's at CFRN Television in Edmonton. She was a reporter and later a news anchor. She covered the events of 9/11 from the anchor desk in Calgary and learned how to report without a script. The youngest of ten children from Fairview, Alberta, Carrie was a natural when it came to communicating and public speaking. She had an incredible run on CFRN-TV in the anchor chair alongside Daryl McIntyre. We spoke about "the Chair" in the physical and metaphorical sense. With so many great broadcasters having occupied the chair previously, Carrie knew that sitting in it required great responsibility.

In this episode we re-connected for the first time in 18 years and took a small walk down broadcasters row in Edmonton. We spoke about the people who sat before her on CFRN-TV (Daphne Kuhn, Leslie Miller, Shawna Randolph) and others who graced the Edmonton airwaves who have gone on to larger markets. (Todd Battis, Tara Nelson, Darren Dutchyshen, Catherine MacDonald, Brian Mudryk, Graham Richardson, Ian Leonard, and so many more)

Today, Carrie hosts a weekly podcast called the Inner Circle which you should connect to here.

Carrie is also a public speaking coach and was kind enough to share some of her expertise on the show.

There is also some bonus material from this episode on the show page including Carrie's farewell from CFRN here.

Thanks also to the people who make this show possible every week including:

Promosuite

Matt Fogarty Voiceovers

Justin Dove at Core Image Studios

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NLogic and their new Services division.