Alan Cross is a Canadian radio broadcaster. He is the current program director of CFNY in Toronto, Ontario, and the host of that station's most famous program, The Ongoing History of New Music.

Cross began his radio career with the University of Winnipeg's campus radio station, CKUW , in 1980. He subsequently joined radio stations in Selkirk, Kenora and Brandon before returning to Winnipeg's CHIQ . He then joined CFNY in 1986 as an overnight announcer.

In 1989, Cross became the station's afternoon drive time host. The following year, he moved to the 10 a.m.-2 p.m. slot; in 1993, he returned to afternoon drive and remained there until 2001. Beginning in February, 1993, he also became host of The Ongoing History.

Cross left CFNY in 2001 to become program director of CJXY in Hamilton, although he continued to host The Ongoing History. He subsequently returned to CFNY as program director in February, 2004.

Cross is the only personality from the 1980s, CFNY's most influential period, still with the station today. He married Mary Ellen Beninger, a CFNY colleague, in 1990.

List of works

• The Alternative Music Almanac (1995)
• The Making of Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral (1996)
• Over the Edge: The Revolution and Evolution of New Rock (1997)
• 20th Century Rock and Roll: Alternative Rock (2000)

External link

• Alan Cross