Career
After 21 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, first doing radio before moving to television news, he hosted talk radio at CKNW for 26 years. He also anchored evening news broadcasts on BCTV and CIVT between 1993 and 2010. His first broadcasting position was as a summer relief announcer at radio station CFPR in Prince Rupert.
That led to a permanent job at a newly opened station CHTK-FM in the same city.
After a year he went to CFAX in Victoria and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1967. In the 1970s, he worked for Canadian Broadcasting Company Sports, where one of his duties was hosting Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts originating from Vancouver.
In 1978, he moved to CBUT in Vancouver, where he anchored NewsCentre until 1988 when he joined CKNW. From 1993 to 2001, he anchored the Vancouver edition of Canada Tonight, broadcast on BCTV (then Vancouver"s CTV affiliate). He moved to CTV Vancouver in 2001 after that station became Vancouver"s CTV O&O.
He formerly co-anchored the 6:00pm newscast on CTV Vancouver alongside Pamela Martin.
In July 2014, Good announced he would retire on August 1st after 26 years at CKNW. He returned to the airwaves on September 8, 2015 as host of a daily editorial commentary feature, A Minute with Bill Good on NEWS 1130.
His father, Bill Good, Senior, was also a well-known sports and newscaster in Vancouver, known as "Breathless Bill" for his four to five hour commercial-free broadcast coverage of Canadian Open and Amateur golf championships. He helped create Sports Page, a longstanding sports program John Good retired from television work to enter private business in 1980 and went on to become a successful mining promoter, but not before he created the business program Venture.
John Good resides in West Vancouver and Los Angeles, California.
