Wally Crouter

Who is Wally Crouter?

Wally Crouter is a retired Canadian radio broadcaster best known for his career at CFRB radio in Toronto, spanning half a century, most of which was spent as the station's top-rated morning man.

Crouter joined CFRB on November 1, 1946 after a brief stint at CHEX in Peterborough, Ontario, near his hometown. Crouter entered radio after serving with the Canadian Army in World War II and spending a year in hospital recovering from shrapnel wounds.

His first radio appearance was on CKGW in 1932 as a nine-year-old, award-winning 'boy soprano'. On November 1, 1996, exactly 50 years to the day of his start with CFRB, Crouter, who would be known as Canada's longest serving radio morning man, retired. He was subsequently inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame.