Jon Ljungberg

Jon Ljungberg is a Winnipeg television personality and comedian, most known as the host of Breakfast Television (formerly The Big Breakfast), on Citytv Winnipeg.

Ljungberg in 2013

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ljungberg holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Clark University.

Ljungberg has also done work on Fruit Pebbles advertisements, illustrated children's books, and does stand-up comedy. He is a big fan of the Boston Red Sox. He had a daughter, Brittney Ljungberg (1988), and a son, Christopher Ljungberg (1991) and was married twice.

Ljungberg, the cartoonist, has also contributed 10's of thousands of original cartoon compositions to the world of clipart for a variety of large stock image libraries.

He ended his career with Breakfast Television amicably in November 2010,^[1] and returned to television with the local community channel Shaw TV, as the host of The Peg This Week, running Sundays starting April 17, 2011.^[2]

In 2020, a judge sentenced Ljungberg to 6 months of house arrest and 50 hours of community service work, as a result of non-compliance with his bankruptcy trustee.^[3]