Breakfast Television's Tim Bolen

Breakfast Television's Tim Bolen

Author: Bill Brioux April 28, 2025 Duration: 38:53
Send us Fan Mail People who work television's morning shift could be forgiven for being a tad grumpy. That's never the case with Tim Bolen, who recently made the leap from co-hosting Morning Live on Hamilton's CHCH to pairing with Dina Pugliese on Citytv's national franchise Breakfast Television. Add living in Toronto when he was on TV in Hamilton and now living in Hamilton and inching through traffic hell in Toronto and you have basically the seven tasks of Hercules. Or is it a genius move s...

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