John Wilson

[cart_machine]

I see John Wilson has joined the merry throng here.

There were actually two John Wilsons in radio. One was at CHUB in Nanaimo in the early 70s; I knew him, his brother Al and his dad, as we were all involved with the same fraternity. I think he works for Telus now.

The other is probably best known for his time at CJOR doing a relaxed weekend talk show. When I was starting out in the business, we'd get a fair number of agency spots that John had voiced. Years later, he replaced me when I was kicked out the door at a station which decided I should be unemployed. He was a very early home computer buff.

cArtie.

[Jack Bennest]

I emailed this pix to John and am hoping for a response.

JB you can comment on Santa's helper

[hazmat]

Santa's helper is of course Al F Erdman, with everpresent
Pepsi (NEVER COKE!!).

I believe Fred Lichota is the source of the photo, and many
John Wilson/AFE stories.

I mostly remember JW as a newsman/host that took an inordinate
amount of pleasure in trying to force neophyte operators
to break-up on the air while attempting to read the CJOR
"Lucky Buck." Of course I remember because I was one
of his favourite victims.

Haz

[johnsykes]

I had the pleasure of John Wilson's company at two stations....CKGM in Montreal and CJOR.....as a jock in the heyday of personality radio, John was wonderful to listen to.
Terrific in radio and life in general. Welcome John

[John Wilson]

Hi (Now I don't understand the protocol)
there must be a reason strange names are used...

So Hi, I-know-who-you-are...

I'm going to have to learn how this thing works...





(I obviously don't what I'm doing...

when I do I'll probably ramble on about the Perfect Retired Life

(that would be mine)

Cheers!

[John Wilson]

I had the pleasure of John Wilson's company at two stations....CKGM in Montreal and CJOR.....as a jock in the heyday of personality radio, John was wonderful to listen to.
Terrific in radio and life in general. Welcome John

Hey, hello, greetings, thanks!

Kind words bring pleasant thoughts...

(M'gawd...CKGM...the Sterling stories...

Christ! Do I have to learn HTML to post in here?

Where's the "Send" button....oh. It says "Submit". Now THAT'S scary...

Regards...

[John Wilson]

Santa's helper is of course Al F Erdman, with everpresent
Pepsi (NEVER COKE!!).

I believe Fred Lichota is the source of the photo, and many
John Wilson/AFE stories.

I mostly remember JW as a newsman/host that took an inordinate
amount of pleasure in trying to force neophyte operators
to break-up on the air while attempting to read the CJOR
"Lucky Buck." Of course I remember because I was one
of his favourite victims.

Haz

You must have me confused with some other brilliant person.
I was always a paragon of seriousness.
To think I would engage in such childish pranks...nonsense!
...uh...did you break up? How many times?

Cheers!

[John Wilson]

I emailed this pix to John and am hoping for a response.

JB you can comment on Santa's helper

Good old Al...I miss him...I guess you could call him an old style
engineer,,,he could build you an amplifier without schematics
with parts AT HAND...

One of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
And evidently a easy mark...nearly all his friends owed him money...

He and Fred (at the time Al's assistant)and I would go to Eatons on our lunch hour,

and play with their Commodore 8K PET...chicklet keys...

...and we all learned BASIC from that...

Fred is now a Ubertech: 8 monitors on his desk...he talks to me in terms of

Terra bytes...holy cow! All I want to do is play PONG....

[Jack Bennest]

You are getting used to it John - but best not to have a conversation with yourself.

You are speaking to operators, announcers, engineers that you worked with - on here - ..... even the mighty Sykes...boy wonder from Montreal.


Jack Bennest