Later, on Citytv's daily talk show CityLine, Petty established herself as one of Canada's foremost television talk show hosts. She left her evening news anchor position to concentrate on CityLine.
From May to , Petty also anchored Citytv's short-lived p. In the s, Petty hosted Weekends with Dini Petty, a syndicated weekly radio program focused on health and wellness for baby boomers. In her early childhood Petty moved with her parents and two siblings to various cities in Canada and the United States, including the Rockcliffe neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Galt, Ontario, Baltimore, Maryland, and Danbury Connecticut, until settling in Toronto at the age of eleven where Dini Petty's mother Molly started a modeling agency with Sylvia Train , Producers' Services and her father Gord opened one of the country's first animation houses, Film Technique.
Petty has remarked that "I got thrown out of every high school I went to, for talking. No one mentioned this could be a career move. She married at 18 and worked in Peterson Productions one of Canada's first commercial studios.
Petty had been active in the Toronto Parachute Club as a skydiver and as a result, CKEY thought she would be a good candidate to fly the company's helicopter to report the morning weather and traffic for the city of Toronto.
Petty acquired her pilot's license and became known as "The Girl in the Pink Helicopter" as the radio station developed a marketing strategy around Petty in which she dressed in pink, rode a pink helicopter and drove a pink car while on the job. There she hosted an afternoon programme, Sweet City Woman.
In , a documentary camera followed her pregnancy and the birth of her son Nicholas. On Citytv's daily talk show CityLine , Petty established herself as one of Canada's foremost television talk show hosts. She left her news anchor position to concentrate on CityLine.
Her hour-long general interest talk show, The Dini Petty Show , aired until In the s, Petty hosted Weekends with Dini Petty , a syndicated weekly radio program focused on health and wellness for baby boomers. Enter keyword s to search for the articles,events,business listing and community content. You can use letters:a-z,A-Z and numbers An award-winning TV and radio host, an author and entrepreneur, Dini Petty has parlayed her vast life experiences, including a stint as the first woman in the world to fly a helicopter while simultaneously broadcasting traffic reports, into a one-woman show that she brings to the Palais Royale next month.
What prompted her to concoct such a theatrical endeavour? Petty revealed she was inspired by comedian Sandra Shamas, whom she interviewed about her one-woman show 'Wit's End'.
After something performances, it has morphed and changed, she said. The only connection to aviation I had was that I did some skydiving in my youth. The best part of the show as far as she is concerned is that all of the stories she tells are true.
Fate must be a woman, for obvious reasons; when she's having a bad day, she's a bitch. She knocks you down and when you struggle to get back to your feet, she sucker punches you.
It takes hundreds and hundreds of jumps to master the art. Petty has Never one to get comfortable with the adrenaline rush, she was always the one screaming 'Oh God, oh God' until her feet touched the ground.
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