The new year isn't even a week old and already I've got some sad news to pass along. Longtime Calgary radio guy Greg Haraldson passed away on Friday January 4th.
Greg's first taste of radio was in 1970 at CKXL where he did the all night show while he was supposed to be working for the city. As long as he played a few requests for the rest of his crew, they'd drop
him off at the station on 17th Avenue just before midnight and then pick him up in the morning after his air shift! Greg's only time away from Calgary was in the late 1970's when he was PD at Vancouver's
CKLG. He returned to Calgary and was PD at CKXL until he made the move to the PD chair at CHQR in 1984. In early 1985, Greg convinced Calgary's #1 morning man Norm Edwards to make the move to QR.
Greg left QR in 1988 and soon landed in the PD office at Country 105 where he and the station won numerous awards.
Greg would have celebrated his 63rd birthday next week.
A hell of a programmer, no matter what format he was working. And a hell of a great friend. My condolences to Greg's family and friends, especially his daughters Jodie and Melanie and ex-wife Marilyn.
R.I.P. Howie