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Bob Bratina is a Canadian broadcaster and politician who served as the 56th Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario from 2010 to 2014. Prior to becoming mayor, he served on Hamilton City Council. Bratina is currently the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek.〔(''Elections Canada'', "Hamilton East-Stoney Creek Results" )〕 ==Biography== Bratina was born and raised in Hamilton. He is of Serbian and Croatian ancestry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.matis.hr/eng/vijesti_ostalo.php?id=2715 )〕 After graduating from Delta High School, he worked with Dofasco for two years as a lab technician. Always wanting to work in radio, he found his first broadcasting job at CJCS Stratford in 1965 and went on to become one of Canada's most successful and versatile on-air personalities. Bratina was the morning show co-host with Shiona Thompson on CHML Radio in Hamilton, until September 2010, when he decided to resign his co-host job to run for Mayor of Hamilton. At times he has achieved record high ratings (BBM 22 Share) of all morning shows in Hamilton. He also re-introduced phone-in talk radio to CFRB, and achieved highest listenership (120 thousand per quarter hour average) in Toronto in his time period. Bratina was also the play-by-play voice of Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and Toronto Argonauts for a total of 20 seasons, and never missed a broadcast for more than 500 games. He also broadcast McMaster Football and Basketball games, and was commentator on junior hockey broadcasts in Kitchener (CKKW) and Senior A hockey in Guelph (Regals). He is a member of the Football Reporters of Canada Hall of Fame, Queen's Jubilee Medal Winner for lifetime community achievement, nominee for Hamilton Citizen of the Year, Hamilton Mountain Citizen of the Year, member of GO Transit Board of Directors, Art Gallery of Hamilton Board of Directors, Theatre Aquarius Board of Directors, and HECFI Board of Directors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.bobbratina.ca/ ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.900chml.com/station/chml_announcers.cfm?REM=11621 ) 〕 Bratina is also an avid marathon runner (18 marathons, including Boston Marathon), Hamilton's ''Around the Bay Road Race'' (10 times, PB 2:07:07 age 45) 1/2 marathon 1:26; 10K 37:45; 5K 17:30 all after the age of 44. As a musician, Bob performs with the Balkan Strings Tamburitza Orchestra, playing brac, clarinet, saxophone and accordion. Bob is married to Carol, a teacher, artist, and singer with the Balkan Strings. They have one son, Sam, a university student who has completed degrees at McMaster University and the University of Waterloo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Bratina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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