The early days of CKWX

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The early days of CKWX

Postby Jack Bennest » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:35 pm

One of our regular viewers here has sent me some priceless
documentation from the early days (I will advise of the donor once all the pix are up)

Great stuff actually - guess who is where even tho the pix and names are there - the one of boving is interesting in comparison to others from the seventies at CFUN

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It will take some time to process all the documents and I will be working on them over the course of the next week as I am trying to run an election.

geez

this message modified to make sense out of it for some including the writer
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Postby Jack Bennest » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:52 pm

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This was NOT a doobie!!!!

This guy has nice hair - something he wishes he had more of now

This fellow is a great guy so no cracks about his healthy campaign and the way he was "suckin back"

and yes its _______________________

(one of Bites' heros)
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Postby Russ_Byth » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:54 pm

That would be one Campbell McCubbin? (Back in the Burrard St. days)
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Postby Mike Cleaver » Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:04 pm

Geez!
An Ampex PR10!
One of the worst pieces of junk ever foisted on the broadcast industry.
Note the head cover is missing.
That's because you always had to mess with them to get the thing to play back correctly.
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Postby J Kendrick » Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:29 pm

Mike Cleaver wrote:Geez!
An Ampex PR10!
One of the worst pieces of junk ever foisted on the broadcast industry.
Note the head cover is missing.
That's because you always had to mess with them to get the thing to play back correctly.


Wrong...

I used to work those very machines in that very same newsroom with that very same man in the photo (the one and only Cam McCubbin) some thirty years ago now...

The head covers had been deliberately removed in order to allow direct access to the heads for the purpose of more accurately editing the tape in the old fashioned way with a marker pencil and a razor blade.

Note the editing block that is mounted at an angle directly over the top of the machine.

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Postby Jack Bennest » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:41 am

Ok Bites that was an easy one but it woke up Kendrick.. who is still editing tape at home.

He and other former reporters of Barker's era are still waiting for a call.


" eh...John sorry to wake you and the missus but there is a vacant house burning on Lonsdale... some indication of a 'crispy critter' so could you jump out of the sack and cover the details for me......
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Postby Jack Bennest » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:47 am

Two of my favorite people of that era

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