Christine Moya McGlade (born August 25, 1963) is a Canadian digital designer and strategist, executive, and professor, as well as a former television producer, and children's television host. She is best known for hosting You Can't Do That on Television.

Overview

McGlade is best known for her long run as host of the internationally popular kids sketch comedy TV program You Can't Do That on Television, which aired on the CTV Television Network in Canada and Nickelodeon in the United States. She was with the show from its very beginning as a local television show on Ottawa, Ontario, television station CJOH-TV in 1979 until partway through the 1986 season. (In 1985 and 1986 Alasdair Gillis was her co-host.) She also served as host for Whatever Turns You On, the short-lived spinoff that aired on CTV in the fall of 1979.

For nine years, McGlade was the Director of Interactive at Ontario's public educational television network, TVOntario. During her tenure there, she was the executive in charge of production for TVO on Transmedia Projects such as Inside Disaster, Chocolocate, and Green Heroes.

She also worked on social issues as Director of Interactive for Canada's largest volunteer network, getinvolved.ca.

McGlade was a senior partner at communications firm Q Media Solutions. She is the founder and senior partner of Analytical Engine Interactive Inc., a service design and digital strategy consultancy and is a lecturer teaching digital strategy, data analytics and visualization at OCAD University and design and communications at Humber College, Centennial College, and Sheridan College.

Production and digital career

McGlade moved to Toronto at age 21. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and later a Master of Design from OCAD University, where she now also teaches.

From 1992 to 1999, McGlade worked as a producer, director, and writer for adult current affairs programming at TVOntario and its French-language sister station TFO and then was Director of Interactive and Digital Media at the network from 2005 to 2012. From 1999 to 2000, she was producer and director of the CBC Playground block of preschool programming at CBC Television, and then from 2000 to 2003 and developed and produced the Vortex and Snit Station programming blocks at YTV.

She was senior partner at media production company Q Media Solutions from 2012 until 2014. She founded her own digital strategy company, Analytical Engine Interactive Inc., in 2016.

Family

McGlade has three children, including a set of twins.

References

Works cited

  • Analytical Engine - McGlade's company