Top Dog wrote:One of the best, if the not the greatest, descriptions of CKWX and its evolution.... updated by Gord Lansdell
Gord's done a fine job, TD. The only things I've noticed are something that could be a footnote (or perhaps just its my opinion), and an implication.
When discussing the change to country, one of the keys to 'WX's early success was the wholesale hiring of some of Joe Chesney's staff at CJJC. At least, I've always been left with that impression. Someone who knows the ratings numbers from that period may wish to correct me.
The second deals with the change to news, and perhaps it's a paragraph structure thing. The paragraph can leave the impression Andy Walsh was hired when the station changed format, which wasn't the case. He arrived about a year after the move to news. The main announcer hires in the first year, after the change, were Brian Brenn, Ted Schellenberg, Eric Westra and Jim Bennie, in that order (in other words, people who later went on to work a day-shift). Andy came not too many months later.
cArtie.