Acting
Alan Cross
Place of birth
Manitoba, Canada
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Acting
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3 titles
Alan Cross is a Canadian radio broadcaster and a writer on music. Based in Toronto, Ontario, he is best known nationally as former DJ for CFNY radio station and internationally as host of the syndicated radio series The Ongoing History of New Music, The Secret History of Rock, and ExploreMusic. Cross is married to Mary Ellen Beninger, a journalist who has been associated with the Toronto radio stations CFNY, CFTR and CHFI. From Wikipedia.
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8.5In 1976, radio station CFNY 102.1FM went on the air, broadcast live from a modest suburban house just north of Toronto, and went on to become one of the most influential punk, new wave and alternative radio stations in the world. This is the story of their mission to bring the most exciting music in the world to the masses. It's also a story of the personalities, lawsuits, bankruptcies, concerts, and listener protests that went along with it.
CFNY: The Spirit of Radio
2026
NRThis two hour unauthorized documentary details the formative history of the Canadian progressive rock band Rush, as well as their rise to fame. Archival interviews with band members, live footage and commentary from journalists and colleagues tell the band's story, album by album, up through their 1981 commercial breakthrough, "Moving Pictures."
Rush: The Rise of Kings 1968-1981
2014
8.0Legendary Canadian punk band "Teenage Head" is determined to enter the limelight once again some 40 years after causing the notorious punk rock riots during the summer of 1980 in Toronto. But first they need to save the band's founding member from a debilitating depression.
Picture My Face: The Story Of Teenage Head
2020
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
8.5In 1976, radio station CFNY 102.1FM went on the air, broadcast live from a modest suburban house just north of Toronto, and went on to become one of the most influential punk, new wave and alternative radio stations in the world. This is the story of their mission to bring the most exciting music in the world to the masses. It's also a story of the personalities, lawsuits, bankruptcies, concerts, and listener protests that went along with it.
CFNY: The Spirit of Radio
2026
8.0Legendary Canadian punk band "Teenage Head" is determined to enter the limelight once again some 40 years after causing the notorious punk rock riots during the summer of 1980 in Toronto. But first they need to save the band's founding member from a debilitating depression.
Picture My Face: The Story Of Teenage Head
2020