Meet the Team
John Spitters
News Director
John was born in Belleville in 1956 and has been committed to bringing Quinte the local news for most of the last thirty years. John graduated from Centennial Secondary School in 1975 and Ryerson in 1978. After a stint in radio sales John returned to his favorite department full-time in 2006. When he’s out of the Newsroom John can often be found enjoying a round of golf.
John guides the news department while personally covering people and events throughout the Quinte region. He’s up at the crack of dark to bring you morning newscasts on 800 CJBQ, Mix 97 and Rock 107.
Email John: johnspitters@rock107.ca
Jack Miller
Sports Director
Jack is now in his 50th year with Quinte Broadcasting and 45th as Sports Director.
Along the way he has called the play by play of more than 3000 games of the Belleville Bulls and Belleville Senators.
Jack was also the voice of the OHL Game of the Week on Global Television for 15 years as well as colour commentator of the World Junior Hockey Championships for 13 years on national radio.
He also served three terms as a member of Belleville City Council.
Jack still brings local sports to the region on CJBQ, MIX 97 and ROCK 107 as well as the morning news anchor on MIX 97.
Email Jack: jack@mix97.com
Tim Durkin
News Anchor
Tim Durkin grew up in the Irish Catholic metropolis of Read in Tyendinaga Township. After stints in Yellowknife and Kingston, Tim has settled in the Quinte region once again. He loves sports, religion, theatre and is a news junkie.
Catch up with Tim on Twitter @Rock107Durkin, or email timdurkin@cjbq.com
Zach McGibbon
News Anchor
Zach comes from the nation’s capital of Ottawa, Ontario and brings his experience of covering the city to the Quinte region. Since joining the Quinte region, Zach has been covering many local events and council meetings and can also be heard delivering radio newscasts. When not reporting, you can find Zach lending his voice to different sporting events as well as ringside at professional wrestling shows.
Mary Thomas
News Anchor
(retired but will continue to report interesting stories on News Maker Sunday on CJBQ)
Mary is a longtime member of the Quinte Broadcasting news team. A Ryerson University journalism grad, she was a radio news director in Sudbury, a reporter for the Telegram newspaper in Toronto, and has also had four non-fiction books published. For more information on her books go to behindenemy@hotmail.com. Mary’s work has taken her to Bosnia, Honduras, South Korea and Canada’s Arctic.
She can be heard reporting on Belleville City Council meetings and many other news stories in the Quinte region. Email Mary: marythomas@cjbq.com
Join Mary on Newsmaker Sunday, each Sunday at the noon hour on 800 CJBQ.
To listen to past shows of Mary on Newsmaker Sunday click here.