Global Calgary’s Paul Dunphy is retiring after 49 years in broadcasting

He has been welcomed into Calgarians’ homes connected a nightly ground for astir 2 generations, but soon he’ll beryllium signing disconnected the aerial 1 past time.

After astir 50 years arsenic 1 of the city’s astir esteemed broadcasters, Global Calgary upwind specializer Paul Dunphy is retiring.

Dunphy, who has been a co-anchor of Global News since 1995, volition beryllium officially moving connected from the anchor table connected Dec. 23, 2024.

He has besides been the upwind anchor for Global Lethbridge for the past 10 years.

Dunphy, started his broadcasting vocation successful vigor successful 1974, earlier moving connected to tv and on the mode helium has worked with galore of Calgary’s astir venerable broadcasters including, Jimmy Hughes, Linda Olsen, Gord Gilles, Brenda Finley, Sandra Jantzen and the precocious Ed Whalen, who became a mentor and person to Paul successful his aboriginal years connected air.

Forecasting and presenting the upwind astatine Global Calgary since earlier outer and radar imagery existed, arsenic exertion evolved, truthful did he, to go 1 of Calgary’s astir respected and trusted upwind anchors.

Reflecting connected quality of his retirement, Dunphy called it “bittersweet. I emotion this occupation and the radical and I americium definite I volition miss both.  I person truly enjoyed interacting with viewers and I americium definite that volition inactive hap erstwhile I americium retired successful public,” added Dunphy.

“It is ever a pleasance to conscionable and chat with fans of Global connected the street.”

In 2021, his interaction connected the manufacture and the metropolis helium loves was recognized erstwhile helium was presented with an RTDNA beingness accomplishment award.

Reacting to quality of his retirement, his erstwhile co-anchor, the now-retired Linda Olsen, said, “Paul is genuinely an icon successful broadcasting and a beloved and exceptional person. His humour, kindness and sincerity that you spot on-air each nighttime are genuinely genuine.”

“Paul has ever been the golden modular arsenic a professional,” added Olsen. “He has ever shown kindness and grace to everyone, and portion being astatine the apical of his career, has maintained a supportive and humble mode astir him. I americium grateful for our agelong past arsenic colleagues and friends.”

Station manager of Global Calgary, Carmela Gentile, says, “It has been specified an honour to enactment with Paul for the past 11 years. He’s a existent man and we volition miss his passionateness for upwind and our assemblage but I privation him and his woman the precise champion arsenic they bask this adjacent section together.”

Known arsenic a satellite traveller, Dunphy and his woman person visited much than 30 countries, but helium ever loves to instrumentality location to Calgary.

“There’s thing similar your location town,” said Dunphy. “Calgary is wherever I grew up and I consciousness astatine home.  Calgarians are warm, courteous, and kind. The champion of the champion unrecorded present and I emotion everything astir this city.”

Dunphy holds a achromatic loop successful Tae Kwon Do and is an avid carnal lover.  He supports the Calgary Humane Society and The Alberta Institute of Wildlife Conservation arsenic good arsenic the Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research.

Asked what has been the champion portion of the job, Dunphy quoted an aged expression: “Find a occupation you emotion and you’ll ne'er person to enactment a time successful your beingness sums up my feelings astir this job. It’s been much of a hobby and a passionateness than work.”

As for what he’ll miss the most, Dunphy said, “The radical — each of them.”