Background
Green was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada.
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Green graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University near Montreal in 1956.
Career
He started his radio career in Brantford, Ontario, subsequently moving to stations in Sudbury and Montreal. Green arrived at CFRA in 1960 as a news and farm reporter. In 1966, he began hosting Greenline, and eventually became the longest-running open line talk show host in North America.
He retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.
On 13 December 1984, Green ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in a provincial by-election in Ottawa Centre. The by-election was called after NDP Michael Cassidy resigned his seat.
He came third, losing to NDP candidate Evelyn Gigantes. Green blamed this loss on his "sharp" personality and low voter turnout.
In 1993, Green returned to CFRA, and has hosted The Lowell Green Show ever since.
Green has been controversial at times. Several complaints have been made against him to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. In a 1994 complaint to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, listeners alleged that Green had been rude and abusive to a caller who identified herself as a Christian.
Although the CBSC determined that Green"s conduct had contravened CBSC guidelines around discrimination, they also decided that the station had responded appropriately, and the group did not prescribe any further action.
On January 4th, 2016 Lowell Green officially retired as an On-Air Host.
