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Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Going to the dark side
After a long run at Shaw, Curtis Anderson will be hosting a music show for SaskTel Max (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)
Television personality tackles ‘pretty bleak stuff’ in book
Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express n some ways, there are two Curtis Andersons. There is the one who was on air for a decade at Shaw TV. Then there is the one who wrote a book under the named C.J. Anderson. “Everyone saw the Curtis Anderson with teeth and hair,” Anderson said of his years at Shaw. “(He was) the interviewer, so gosh darn happy to be here all the time.” Then there is the author of the book with a title that has raised eyebrows — Gina French Is Not a Waste of Roofies. “I think this is probably a pretty big shock to the system of people who knew me
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and related to me on Channel 10, because this is about as dark and bleak as I can go.” The real Curtis/C.J. Anderson can be found somewhere in the middle, he says. Anderson grew up in Saskatoon. After high school, he enrolled in a media program in Brandon. After year one of two, he was offered a job as a full-time news camera operator at Global Saskatoon. He soon discovered he liked the camera, but not the images he was shooting. “I was running out and shooting the goings-on around Saskatoon — lots of accidents, which got to me quicker than I thought it would, actually. There was a lot of adrenalin, the first six, seven months when you are running out to the accident
sites and everything. You try to get tasteful shots, so there is that energy. After a while, it drains you. I don’t know how people do it for their entire careers.” He was working evenings and weekends. His wife, Kazia, was working mornings. The move to Shaw made sense, even though it would be part-time. “This was the opportunity to do the same thing I was doing, just more Monday to Friday and more community stories instead of chasing ambulances. “So everything lined up and I was super excited. I was taking the risk because I was only hired part-time. Then, two days before I was supposed to start, they called me back and asked me if I wanted to work
full-time as a sports reporter.” He laughs as he tells the story. “I had never really done any reporting and wasn’t that ingrained in the sports culture, but I said, ‘Yeah, of course. I’d love to do that! I could do that for sure.’ I did sports for three years and struggled – you know, cut my teeth. “I was so terrified that I was going to say something wrong I made a career out of asking opened-ended, vague questions that always seemed to hit home. I would love looking so serious and asking, ‘What’s the atmosphere like in the dressing room?,’ knowing that was a good minute answer. (Continued on page 4)