Career
Jeff Green began his career in radio in 1972 at Carleton University's CKCU-FM, when it was only running with a carrier current license — "broadcasting" by closed circuit to the university commons areas, and through a transmitter in the residence building to the students there. He was one of the founding Production Managers when CKCU received its FM radio license in 1975. In 1976, he became the founding Production Manager at the Ottawa album-oriented rock station CHEZ-FM. In 1980 he received a Canada Council Explorations grant to create the radio drama “Epiphanies”, intended as a pilot for a series that was never produced. In addition to his work in radio, he was editor for the now-defunct tabloid entertainment paper Ottawa Revue from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was Central and Eastern Canada’s first VJ, presenting groundbreaking video programming at Ottawa rock and roll venue Barrymore's before music video television was generally available in Canada (MTV had just launched and was only available by satellite television, which was relatively rare at the time). In Ottawa, from 1979 through 1983, Jeff Green designed and executed an annual series of popular live club multimedia performances at Hallowe'en entitled "Ne'ewollah".
In 1985 he began the series of radio dramas that became known as “Soundings”. “Soundings” went on to win several awards, including a silver medal at the New York International Radio Festival. Originally aired on Ottawa’s CHEZ-FM, episodes of the series were eventually broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and National Public Radio (U.S.) networks, as well as London's LBC Radio station. The radio plays were featured on XM Satellite Radio’s former Sonic Theater channel.
In 1990, Green began an association with members of Ottawa’s Salt & Pepper Theatre Company which resulted in the 4-season “Cowboy Who?” television series, an all-ages satire of children’s programming for which he was co-creator, co-writer, producer, director, engineer, and performer. The series was broadcast from 1991 to 1995 on the Mid-Canada Television Network, and won the 1992 Canpro Award (Canadian Independent Television Producer’s Association) for Best Children’s Series.
In 1993, he teamed up with the Animatics Multimedia Corporation, which resulted in the award-winning video-based interactive multimedia productions "Midnight Stranger" and "Mode" on which he acted as co-creator, writer, and director. These dramas were notable for their innovative user interface and "point of view" social interaction, and were hailed as being some of the finest productions available in their genre. Currently, he is working as a multimedia consultant and produces and hosts a bi-weekly overnight radio show on CKCU called "Big In Japan".
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