Career
Enright is the current host of Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One"s The Sunday Edition and the archive show Rewind, which airs on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 137 and also Wednesday at midnight on Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One. Enright first joined Canadian Broadcasting Company radio in 1974 as host of This Country in the Morning for one year. He was then a print journalist for Time, Maclean"s, the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail.
He subsequently returned to Canadian Broadcasting Company, becoming managing editor of Canadian Broadcasting Company radio news in 1985, and then became cohost of As lieutenant Happens in 1987.
He hosted that program with Alan Maitland until 1993, and with Barbara Budd until 1997. Enright attended Saint Michael"s College, a Catholic all-boys school, was lead altar boy at Holy Rosary Church and spent one year at a Passionist seminary in Dunkirk, New New York
In 1997, when Peter Gzowski retired from Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio, the network discontinued Gzowski"s Morningside and Ian Brown"s Sunday Morning, replacing both with the new This Morning. Enright and Avril Benoit hosted the program for two years.
Benoit subsequently became host of Canadian Broadcasting Company"s local afternoon show in Toronto, Here and Now, and Enright continued as the sole host of This Morning.
In 2000, Canadian Broadcasting Company split This Morning"s Sunday broadcast back into a distinct show. Enright became the host of Sunday Edition, and was replaced as weekday host by Shelagh Rogers. He was awarded an "Honorary Degree Doctor of Letters, honoris causa" at the 98th Spring Convocation of Saint Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick on May 18, 2008.
Enright, who never finished high school, had previously said that he would have preferred an honorary high school diploma.
In June 2009, he was finally granted this wish.
