Mr. Herrndorf died of cancer on Feb. 18, surrounded by his family at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital in Toronto. He was 82 years old
Peter Herrndorf didn’t know a word of English in 1947, when, at six years old, he boarded the ship in Rotterdam that would take his family to New York City, but music gave him a way in. On the voyage across the Atlantic, he listened repeatedly to a pair of tunes on the American hit parade:by The Starlighters and Earl Hagen’s Orchestra. “By the time we landed in New York, I knew all the lyrics,” he told The Globe and Mail in a 2018 interview. “That was my introduction to American culture.
Peter Alexander Herrndorf was born Oct. 27, 1940, in Amsterdam to the banking executive Hellmut Herrndorf and the former Anne-Marie Erlich, a German Jew who had fled Berlin in 1938 and lived under false papers during the Second World War. The country was in turmoil, and Peter never got his Dutch citizenship.
Mr. Herrndorf graduated from the University of Manitoba in political science and English and, after earning a law degree from Dalhousie, joined CBC Winnipeg in 1965 as an editor and reporter. He moved to Edmonton, then Toronto to work in current affairs, catching the eye of executives and convincing them to send him for management training at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Herrndorf struck a study group, commissioned reams of research – audience strategies, public-relations strategies, regional strategies, budgets, an overhaul of newsgathering operations, which were then going all-electronic – and plotted out how to move the flagship newscastto 10 p.m. “This was the Normandy invasion of Canadian television,” said Mr.
“Herrndorf has all the qualities for private corporate success,” noted Rick Salutin, in a 1996 Globe column. “But something culturally Canadian in him needs to do public service. Even during his private-sector time as publisher at Toronto Life magazine, he poured his energy into creating the Toronto Arts Foundation, as if he couldn’t live with himself if he wasn’t making a social contribution.”
David Lindsay, who managed Premier Harris’s office, recalled on Saturday that Mr. Herrndorf “was always positive about the things that TVOntario was contributing to the public policy discourse, to the education of children. He was always inviting politicians, ministers and political chiefs of staff and people like me to openings, to events that were happening at the TVOntario offices.”
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