Broadcaster · Storyteller · Memory Keeper
What gets recorded gets remembered.
Scott Simpson is a broadcaster, advocate, and memory keeper based in London, Ontario. After thirty years in radio — reporter, anchor, talk show host, program director — he now advocates for the neurodivergent community and runs Cygnals Multimedia, a family media preservation service built on one conviction: the moments on those old tapes are family history.
Autistic, ADHD, solo dad. Genuinely curious about almost everything. Has been publishing, performing, and connecting people online since before most people knew what a network was.
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Scott Simpson grew up in Newmarket, Ontario, messing with cassette tapes and playing radio. His first newscast was a grade four project that aired on the local AM radio station. By twelve he was attending something called Cable Camp. By fourteen he was volunteering at Rogers Cable 10, hauling equipment on studio and mobile shoots. He got to be around cool gear and make TV. It fit.
At Ryerson University in Toronto he studied Radio and Television Arts. In 1994, still a student, he started at 680News Toronto: cutting tape overnight, then traffic, then a reporter and occasional anchor at Canada's top-rated all-news station. Eleven years. He covered crime, politics, and emergencies, developed a flair for the off-beat human stories, and was live from Toronto's downtown streets the morning of September 11, 2001.
After 680News came News95.7 in Halifax -- news anchor, and reluctant talk show host. Then NewsTalk 1290 CJBK in London, Ontario, as program director. The PD role demanded the kind of political navigation, time management and room-reading he'd never quite cracked. He worked at it hard. He struggled with it. He didn't know why yet.
Running alongside the broadcast years was a parallel life he rarely mentioned. He published a zine called Cygnals -- started as a Rush fanzine, eventually something stranger and harder to categorize -- ten issues, one copy in the National Library of Canada. He recorded an album on a four-track cassette deck. He played a non-wrestler wrestling character called Doctor Love in indie shows around Hamilton. He maintained one of Canada's earliest personal websites, and a long-running blog called BigAssSuperstar.com that went quiet when Amanda died.
Amanda was his wife. Doctors discovered advanced ovarian cancer during the birth of their son in 2013. She died in 2016. Scott focused on being a dad. The years after brought a narrowing of contacts, of output, of whatever supports had been keeping him above water.
The autism realization came later, arriving not as a clinical finding but as immediate, total recognition: every lock he'd been forcing open, suddenly with a key that fit. He is AuDHD. That's his identity, not a label.
Scott now runs Cygnals Multimedia in London, Ontario, preserving home videos and family audio on VHS, 8mm, and cassette. He co-hosted the YouTube series Neurodivergent Connections, guests on podcasts about late autism diagnosis, and livestreams energetic guitar-fueled karaoke from his basement.
What gets recorded gets remembered.
A complete accounting · 1988 – 2026
Scott is available for podcast guest appearances, broadcast consulting, voiceover work, and speaking engagements about neurodivergence, adult diagnosis, and autism in the workplace.
If you have family tapes, home videos, or audio recordings you’d like preserved, Cygnals Multimedia is the place to start. VHS, 8mm, MiniDV, audio cassette — if it’s on an old format, there’s a good chance it can be saved.
For everything else: reach out. Scott tends to respond to interesting questions.