CJVI Sports Question

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Does anyone know who did play-by-play sports at CJVI before Bill Stephenson arrived?

There is a 1946 photo in the BC Archives of a Victoria baseball game, and someone with a CJVI mike. It doesn't identify the announcer and neither do any of the Sid Thomas columns in the Colonist of that era.

cArtie.

[Jack Bennest]

Ted Reynolds - CFJC Kamloops 1945; play-by-play baseball, hockey & lacrosse CJVI Victoria 1947-56



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picture as indicated by cArtie (most likely prior to Reynolds' arrival)

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picture as indicated by cArtie (most likely prior to Reynolds' arrival)

Yes, it is neither Stephenson nor Ted. Since I don't know anyone who did sports over there then, hence my question.

The Colonist just did radio listings, they did not have a radio highlights column. There are no copies of the Times accessible here.

cArtie.

[Mike Cleaver]

Not trying to be a wet blanket or anything, that photo looks faked.
And no one who knows anything about broadcasting would talk into the dead sides of a ribbon microphone, such as the RCA 74b pictured here.
That particular mic is bi-directional with nulls to the side.

[Jack Bennest]

I agree with Mike that the picture looks staged...it is apparently so old
that no one knows much about it.

[jon]

This whole thing is starting to remind me of an e-mail I got about a year ago saying "That is really funny where you have the Robert Redford picture for {name of current Vancouver DJ}".

I looked and, sure enough, I had copied the picture from a friend's site. And it really was Robert Redford, labelled there, too, as the Vancouver DJ. The friend and I had a good laugh about that one.

Which makes me wonder if the CJVI baseball picture hasn't been really faked up, with Alan Ladd or someone equally famous shown. Bogart would be funnier: "Lishen, sweetheart, it's the bottom of the 5th and the bases are loaded...."

[Jack Bennest]

Royal Athletic Park - about 1945 here is more of that picture for you to analize

[glaherty]

Never mind the direction of the mic, don't you tend to look
AT the field when you're doing a game?

[Steve Sanderson]

It definately looks like a cut and paste job.

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Never mind the direction of the mic, don't you tend to look
AT the field when you're doing a game?

Clancy used to bring binoculars to Nat Bailey and he wasn't always looking at the field.

And I can think of a few times where Pat and I have looked at each other after a description of a play and said "What game is HE looking at?" (you were not the object of the question.)

I think everyone can figure out this is a paste-up; I'd still like to know who the announcer is. The Colonist of the day makes no mention of who does the Athletics' broadcasts in 1946.

cArtie.

[YesterDaze]

A CJVI contemporary of Ted's who visited with him and color man Owen Jull at RAP, agrees with the assessment that it's a staged shot for promotional purposes, but is unable to shed any light on who is pictured, or who may have preceded Ted in sports.

cArtie, I seem to remember that during some years at least, the latter innings of the baseball games were recorded on acetate disk, and played on the air beginning about 10.45. Is this confirmed in the listings?

One of Ted's big CJVI assignments in the 1950's was covering the many swims by assorted folks across Juan De Fuca, mostly from Port Angeles to Victoria. Keith McKenzie did the same for CKDA.

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A CJVI contemporary of Ted's who visited with him and color man Owen Jull at RAP, agrees with the assessment that it's a staged shot for promotional purposes, but is unable to shed any light on who is pictured, or who may have preceded Ted in sports.

cArtie, I seem to remember that during some years at least, the latter innings of the baseball games were recorded on acetate disk, and played on the air beginning about 10.45. Is this confirmed in the listings?

Daze, I'd have to go back and look. I never paid a lot of attention, to be honest. Was this because of CBC commitments?

Thanks for your effort in trying to find out about this.

I'm a little surprised considering the fact the Colonist owned (or part-owned by then) CJVI that it didn't promote the station more in the paper. I did see a wonderful spread when they moved to new studios in 1952.

cArtie

[Victoriaradio]

The picture looks like Fred Usher (Sales) CJVI, also lead singer for the CJVI Hometowners. Bill Stephenson did not work at CJVI, he was at CKDA.

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The picture looks like Fred Usher (Sales) CJVI, also lead singer for the CJVI Hometowners.

Thanks, VR. He didn't do baseball, though, did he?

cArtie.

[Victoriaradio]

Fred Usher was strictly sales and leader of the Hometowners. Actually Ted Reynolds used to emcee the Hometowners live show from , "...the stage of the Dominion Theatre." When I worked at CJVI our sports guy was Lundy Sanderson (Rev.).