Gary Slaight

He was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2009, and was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2014. He was the recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award at the Juno Awards of 2012, and the Juno Humanitarian Award at the Juno Awards of 2018.

In his role as a radio program director, he was a passionate defender of Canadian content regulations, telling the media that most radio stations would likely not provide any airplay support to emerging Canadian musicians without the rule; in his role as head of Standard Radio, he launched one of Canada's first major commercial ventures into web broadcasting when nine Standard Radio stations launched webstreams in 2000 on what would eventually become Iceberg Radio.

He succeeded his father as president and CEO of Standard Broadcasting in 2000, holding this role until Standard sold all of its terrestrial radio assets to Astral Media in 2007. The remaining remnants of Standard Broadcasting, including Iceberg Radio and its minority stakes in SiriusXM Canada and other radio ownership groups, became the contemporary Slaight Communications.

The son of radio executive Allan Slaight, Gary Slaight began his career in the media department of McLaren Advertising, and worked in music promotion for Quality Records and WEA Records, before joining his father's company (then known as Slaight Broadcasting) in 1977 as program director of CILQ-FM (Q107). Although Slaight Broadcasting sold Q107 to Western International Communications in 1985, Gary Slaight remained with the station until 1987, when he rejoined his father's renamed Standard Broadcasting as program director of CKFM-FM and head of the company's radio division.

Gary Slaight CM (born February 15, 1951) is a Canadian broadcasting executive and philanthropist, most noted for his efforts to develop and support the Canadian music industry. He is currently the chief executive officer of Slaight Communications, a firm which is a minority investor in Sirius XM Canada, and of Slaight Music, a talent development and promotional firm which funds projects in artist development, music publishing and digital music distribution as well as serving as a key partner in the Juno Awards, the Polaris Music Prize, the Canadian Country Music Awards and the Prism Prize.