Erica Ehm (Erica Miechowsky, born September 30, 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is best known as a pioneering video jockey at the Canadian cable television station MuchMusic. September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Please visit and contribute to the Montreal Wikiportal See and add to this ongoing discussions about English Names in Montreal and Titles of borough articles City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 500. ... Beginning in 1963, a terrorist group that became known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices and at least two murders by FLQ gunfire and three violent deaths by bombings. ... Video Jockey or VJ is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. ... MuchMusic logo Michelle Trachtenberg at the MuchMusic Video Awards preshow, 2004 MuchMusic (often called Much) is a 24-hour cable television music video and variety television channel based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which debuted on August 31, 1984 as one of the first Canadian cable specialty channels on the air. ...

After early appearances that were perhaps rather wooden, she eventually became one of Canada's most recognizable personalities, a fantasy figure to many teenage boys and a fashion influence on many teenage girls. Her popularity begat extensive media coverage and a fanzine, Ehmphasis, devoted to her. A fanzine (see also: zine) is an nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ... Ehmphasis, the one & only Erica Ehm Fanzine™, was an underground humour zine, that published 60 issues between 1988 and 1998. ...

Erica left MuchMusic after 10 years to concentrate on her songwriting career.

Since then, she has returned periodically to television, hosting or appearing in shows including Popstars - The One (Global), Real Life with Erica Ehm (Life Network), Power Play (Discovery Channel Canada), The Company (TVOntario), Nestlé Baby and You (Rogers Cable) and Science: From A to Ehm. The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global) is a major English-language television network in Canada, owned by CanWest Global Communications. ... Life Network is a Canadian television network owned by Alliance Atlantis Communications. ... Discovery Channel Canada is a Canadian cable television service devoted to science and nature programming. ... TVOntario (TVO) is an educational public television station in the Canadian province of Ontario. ... Rogers Communications Inc. ...

After having a child in 2000 with her partner Terry Moshenberg and another in 2003, Erica has directed much of her energy into parenting. She has written three stage musicals for the family market. After her first play, Caillou's Big Party, sold out in theatres across North America, she was commissioned to write two other shows, The Big Comfy Couch and Caillou's Big Book Club. She has also been contributing editor for What's Up Kids magazine. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Caillou is a cartoon about a 4-year-old bald-headed boy named Caillou who lives with his 2-year-old little sister Rosie (Mousseline in the original French version), his parents, his cat named Gilbert, and his stuffed animals. ... The Big Comfy Couch was a Canadian childrens television series about Loonette the Clown and her friends. ...

Ehm is also a noted songwriter. Van Morrison, Tim Thorney, Cassandra Vasik, Lynne Taylor Donovan and Tom Jackson are a few of the artists who have recorded her songs. She has won two Juno Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and three SOCAN Awards. She also co-wrote the theme song for the animated film and series Pippi Longstocking. Her song "Love Me Even More" was chosen as the theme for the feature Some Things That Stay. Van Morrison in concert, 1974 Van Morrison (b. ... Cassandra Vasik is a Canadian country singer. ... Tom Jackson is an American Pro Bowl football player who played for the Denver Broncos during the 1970s as part of the Orange Crush with Randy Gradishar. ... The Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands; they could be considered the transnational counterpart to the United States Grammy Awards. ... The Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada or SOCAN is the only nationwide performance rights organisation in Canada. ... Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi Långstrump) is a fictional character in a series of childrens books created by author Astrid Lindgren. ...

She had a modest acting career, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock Presents as a secretary, in the Robocop TV series as a transgendered journalist, as "Benita" in a stage play version of Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, as a madam in Replikator and as Vicky in Jigsaw. Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. ... RoboCop RoboCop is a satirical 1987 science fiction action movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven. ... Brad Fraser (born June 28, 1969 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. ... 1996 omnibus publication of Brad Frasers screenplay and original stage play. ...

Ehm is also a professional speaker and event host, and author of the book She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Women about Life, Dreams and Success, published by HarperCollins. In 2002, she hosted a weekly call-in show on CFRB 1010, a Toronto news/talk radio station, combining current events and lifestyle topics. Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819. ... CFRB, or CFRB 1010 as it is often referred to, is an AM radio station, broadcasting on 1010 kHz, with a shortwave radio simulcast by CFRX on 6070 kHz. ...

External links

• Official site