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==Biography== She got her first job at [[CHOM-FM]] sorting records for DJs.<ref name="timmins">{{cite news |title=Former VJ strikes a chord with audience at Women in Business talk |url=https://www.timminspress.com/news/local-news/former-vj-strikes-a-chord-with-audience-at-women-in-business-talk |accessdate=March 24, 2020 |work=Timmins Daily Press |date=March 8, 2019}}</ref> She began her television career by contributing to ''[[Musi-Video]]'', a local rock and video show produced in [[Montreal|Montreal, Quebec]]. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the [[University of Ottawa]]. Ehm moved to Toronto where she found a job working as a receptionist at [[Citytv]], which owned the soon-to-launch cable channel [[MuchMusic]], and when the new station began hiring [[video jockey]]s in 1984 she applied<ref name="timmins"/> and became one of the station's first VJs.<ref name="ctv">{{cite news |title=MuchMusic vets look back on 25 years of music TV |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/muchmusic-vets-look-back-on-25-years-of-music-tv-1.428175 |accessdate=March 24, 2020 |work=CTV News |agency=Canadian Press |date=August 28, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Weisblott |first1=March |title=5 of the original MuchMusic VJs are reunited in 2013d |url=https://o.canada.com/entertainment/muchmusic-vjs-2013 |accessdate=March 24, 2020 |work=canada.com |date=November 1, 2013 |archive-date=March 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324183639/https://o.canada.com/entertainment/muchmusic-vjs-2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ehm left MuchMusic in 1994, after ten years, to concentrate on her songwriting career. Since then, she has returned periodically to television, hosting or appearing in shows including ''Yummy Mummy'' on [[Life Network]] and [[Discovery Health Channel|Discovery Health]] in the U.S. among other countries, ''Popstars - The One'' ([[Global Television Network|Global]]), ''Real Life with Erica Ehm'' ([[Life Network]]), ''Power Play'' ([[Discovery Channel Canada]]), ''The Company'' ([[TVOntario]]), ''Nestlé Baby and You'' ([[Rogers Cable]]) and ''Science: From A to Ehm''. {{Citation needed|date=August 2013}} After having a child in 2000 with her spouse Terry Moshenberg, who founded The League of Rock, and another child in 2003, she runs the Yummy Mummy Club. She has written three stage musicals for the family market. After her first play, ''[[Caillou]]'s Big Party'', sold out in theatres across North America, she was commissioned to write two other shows, ''[[The Big Comfy Couch]]'' and ''Caillou's Big Book Club''. {{Citation needed|date=August 2013}} Ehm has written songs which have been recorded by, among others, [[Van Morrison]], [[Tim Thorney]], [[Cassandra Vasik]] and [[Tom Jackson (actor)|Tom Jackson]]. She has won three [[Canadian Country Music Awards]] and three [[Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada|SOCAN]] Awards. She co-wrote the theme song for the animated film and series ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]''. Her song "Love Me Even More" was chosen as the theme for the feature film ''Some Things That Stay''. She had a modest acting career, appearing in ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' as a secretary, ''[[RoboCop: The Series]]'' as television news anchor Rocky Crenshaw, as "Benita" in a stage play version of [[Brad Fraser]]'s ''[[Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love]]'', as a madam in ''[[Replikator]]'' and as Vicky in ''Jigsaw''. {{Citation needed|date=August 2013}} Ehm authored ''She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Women about Life, Dreams and Success'', published by [[HarperCollins]], as well as a children's book, ''The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery''.<ref>[http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/afterword/archive/2010/03/11/rebecca-eckler-and-erica-ehm-talk-turkey-about-collaborating-on-their-new-book.aspx Rebecca Eckler and Erica Ehm talk turkey about collaborating on their new book]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2002, she hosted a weekly call-in show on [[CFRB]] 1010, a Toronto news/talk radio station.
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