A broadcaster familiar to many CTV News watchers has died at the age of 63. Janine Sharp, nee Grespan, was known to CKCO and CTV News viewers as a reporter, weather presenter, and anchor. She began her career at the CFRB radio station in Toronto working as a feature reporter before returning to her hometown of Kitchener in 1985 as a news announcer on CFCA and CKKW. The next year, she began appearing on televisions across the region as a noon news anchor and weather presenter on CKCO. She worked as a broadcaster for more than 25 years. Sharp fought two battles with cancer throughout her life. According to an obituary posted on the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home website, she died on May 3 at Grand River Hospital’s Freeport Campus in Kitchener. Visitation will take place at the Waterloo funeral home on May 14 and May 15. A celebration of life will follow at a later date. Her family asks that in lieu in flowers, donations be made to the Grand River Hospital – Freeport Palliative Care Unit. Condolences and tributes for the family can be left online.
