Another friend from my early broadcast days has died.
Jim Elliott, an Engineer with Newcap, died of a heart attack this past Sunday.
He had been in the business for over 50 years.
Jim was born in Courtney, BC and moved to Red Deer where he went to school.
He started his long and varied broadcasting career at CKRD in the 50’s, initially as a library assistant while in school and later on air.
He moved to Lethbridge in the early 60’s and worked on air for both CHEC Radio and then moved across the street to CJOC.
It was in the 70’s that Jim made the move to Edmonton and worked the drive show for CFRN and CJCA.
Eventually, he moved into sales at CJCA and then over to ITV.
In the mid 80’s, Jim went to work for Shaw Radio (now Corus) and moved back to Lethbridge to manage CHEC Radio and CKTA Taber.
In the early 90’s he moved to Woodstock with Shaw and managed the Shaw station there.
In the late 90’s, Jim moved west again with the OK group and was in sales in Kelowna and Fort St. John.
It was in 2000 when he moved back to Edmonton and in 2004 joined Newcap in our engineering group.
Jim was also a pilot and spent many years flying around the country side.
His son Jamie is now a commercial pilot with Porter Air based out of Toronto.
Both Tracy and Kerry are in the broadcast industry.
Jim and I worked together both at CJOC and CJCA.
Our sincere condolences to the Elliott family.