Milton York passes away

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Milton York passes away

Postby radiofan » Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:48 pm

YORK, Milton
Born January 22, 1946 "Uncle" Milt passed away peaceably February 26, 2012 at Delta Hospital. He was born in Glasgow Scotland and arrived in Canada in 1950 with parents Henry and Isabelle who pre-deceased him. He is survived by brother Sandy (Darlene), niece Channay, (Gordon) and great nephew Hunter as well as cousins both in Canada and Scotland. Milt spent all of his life in the radio and TV industry as a live on air personality as well as an audio specialist. He made many friends and acquaintances along the way. Milt poured himself into many projects including the Abbotsford Air show, telethons and a highlight of his career was to work the Hockey games at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer Norway for CTV. He has left a big hole in all of our lives and will be greatly missed. A memorial service will be held at 3:30 pm Sunday the 11th of March at the South Delta Baptist Church 1988 56th Street, Tsawwassen, BC

Thanks to Jack Bennest for passing this along.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby Jack Bennest » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:10 pm

Actually came from ash who says Milt worked at wx, or, da and chek tv

from vancouver broadcasters ( no pix )

Milton York - CJOR Vancouver; news CKWX Vancouver circa 1970; as Jason Canaan disco show host CKDA Victoria; production CJJC Langley 1977; production manager CKO-FM-4 Vancouver 1983; promo voice/technical CHEK-TV Victoria current

do you have a picture of Milton??
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby CubbyCam » Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:05 pm

Damn these past 6 months have been brutal... Worked with Milt at WX...back in the day. Always enjoyed his company. I'm sorry we never re-connected after he left Victoria. He's left us at WAY too young an age.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby hagopian » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:20 pm

Ok, no more losses. My condolences to his fiends and family.
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Darn, this has been a crappy six months, as Cubby said.

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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby videopro » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:14 am

I met Milt at UBC Radio in the 1960's and worked with him at 'WX in the '70's. Great times.

After Trudeau's famous "fuddle-duddle" line to the media, ad agency dude Dunc Holmes and 'WX DJ Steve Woodman wrote a song titled "What's It Mean?" We recorded it at an all-night session at Studio Three (who can remember?) and aired it on "Steve's Place" on 'WX the next day. Milton was in the chorus because we recruited everybody who was up for a fun gig, and he always was.

I didn't stay in touch after Milt went to Victoria, and I'm ever so sorry now. We must make the effort to hook up with our comrades whenever possible, even after they leave the neighbourhood. RIP Milt - great memories my friend.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby cart_machine » Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:11 am

Jack, if I were ever back home (which I never am) and rummaging through stuff, I could find his picture in the Abbotsford Junior High School annual. Dad taught Milt in the early '60s. Milt lived in Barrowtown, just on the Sumas side of the border with Chilliwack, so he went to school in Abbotsford. But his social life was in Chilliwack; his father was a Past Master of one of the Masonic Lodges there.

Milt left CKO in 1979 for a simple reason. The head office in Toronto kept forgetting to pay him. Milt was Production Manager which, I guess, put him in some kind of odd payroll category where he was out of sight, out of mind.

He produced some Indo-Canadian programming at CJJC; Ted might remember this. There would be evenings were Milt and the people involved with the show would sit downstairs and have something resembling a picnic. You could easily smell the curry coming up into the reception area. They used to record in the production booth next to the control room I did a "CJJC Studio Tour" live on the air one night (the mike cord stretched about a third of the way through the building) and stopped outside at the production studio, giving a little play-by-play of the action inside. Apparently this interested the show's hosts who pointed at me through the glass. All Milt could do was shake his head.

Last I saw of him was in Victoria a long time ago when he got Skip Kelly to be CKO's legislature reporter. Milt was enjoying things introing the CHEK 6pm and 11pm news and not doing a lot in between casts.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby johnsykes » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:02 pm

I could be wrong...but I believe it was at CJOR that we crossed paths......another fellow I had enjoyed working with.
My condolences to his family. R.I.P. Milton.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby raverocks » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:57 pm

If I'm not mistaken, I think I worked with Milt at CJAT in Trail during my first summer break from BCIT. Can anyone confirm he worked there during the summer of 1967?
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby BossRadio » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:50 pm

Wasn't Gil Harris breaking into the biz at 'AT around that time? Mayhaps he will chime in.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby Jack Bennest » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:53 pm

Speaking of Steve's Place - who has the best collection of Woodman tapes? I have just a brief
snippet I taped years ago (early 70's).

Makes me cry today to hear such incredible talent.
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Re: Milton York passes away

Postby albertaboy4life » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:20 pm

While not from his time in Vancouver, there's some Steve Woodman (et.al.) stuff online from his CJCA Edmonton days thanks to the Edmonton Public Library -

http://www.epl.ca/edmonton-history/edmo ... -broadcast
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