Thomas Ranald "Ran" Ide, OC (February 20, 1919 – October 23, 1996) was a Canadian educator and the founding Chairman of TVOntario.
Born in Ottawa, he received a degree in economics and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
Ide first got involved in broadcasting while he was a teenager in Saint John, New Brunswick and had an after school job doing movie reviews at a radio station.
His unit bought air time from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and produced 150 programs in the first year.
OECA launched its own television station in 1970, CICA, broadcasting from Toronto; by 1979 what had become TVOntario employed a staff of 400 and had transmitters across the province reaching 85% of Ontario's population and 88% of its schools.