Lowell Green (born 7 July 1936) is a Canadian radio personality. He hosts The Lowell Green Show, a conservative morning talk show on Ottawa radio station CFRA, and has also syndicated programming to several other Canadian radio stations.
Green was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada.
Green graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University near Montreal in 1956. He started his radio career in Brantford, Ontario, subsequently moving to stations in Sudbury and Montreal. In Montreal, Green won awards for his coverage of the Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia.
Green arrived at CFRA in 1960 as a news and farm reporter. In 1966, he began hosting Greenline, and eventually became the longest-running open line talk show host in North America. He retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.
He attempted to win the Liberal party nomination for the Pontiac riding in the 1968 federal election but lost this bid to Thomas Lefebvre.
On 13 December 1984, Green ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in a provincial by-election in Ottawa Centre. He came third, behind the Ontario New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservative candidates, with 26.6% of all votes cast. Green blamed this loss on his "sharp" personality and low voter turnout.
In 1993, Green returned to CFRA, and has hosted The Lowell Green Show ever since.
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