Jack Cullen on CBC

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Around Your Radio Dial
By Dick Diespecker
[Vancouver Province, Saturday, April 24, 1954]
Jack Cullen returns to the CBC with a special show on Monday. The night-time DJ who runs “Owl Prowl” on CKNW will be taking his second run at a scripted CBC show. Title is “The Jack Cullen Show,” and Mr. Cullen will be assisted by actors Doug Hoskins and Stan Jones, and songstress Thora Anders. Music is supplied by [two unreadable words] under the direction of Ernie Blunt, while Pat Trudell and his vocal group “The Dreamers” will be featured on each show. Script is by Warren Barker and production by Bill Inglis. You can catch the show at 9:30 over CBU … While I have every respect for Mr. Cullen’s talents and am happy that the CBC is unbending as much as they do these days putting on lighter programs of this sort—the Barney Potts Show is another excellent example—I might as well take this opportunity to drop a hint into the shell-like ear of CBC Program Director Doug Nixon; that since bass baritone Don Gerrard has just won still another Canadian singing award, “Nos Future Etoiles,” which makes it a clean sweep for him, some consideration might be made to building a program with a full orchestra around him this summer when he is in Vancouver to sing the leading role in the TUTS production of “Oklahoma!” Last year after he had won “Singing Stars of Tomorrow” I had to practically batter down the doors of two private stations, CKWX and CJOR, to get Mr. Gerrard on the air here. The CBC gave him the back of its hand, except for one or two guest shows. Since the CBC is out national radio network I think it is surely their duty to present to the people of the west our foremost singing star in an appropriate setting when they have the opportunity to do so from his home town. How about it, Doug?

cArtie note: memo to T.D .. since it isn't Pride Weekend in Oliver this weekend (then again, is it ever?), you should have oodles of spare time to find out from Mr. Barker exactly what this show was about.

Apparently, Dear Dick hadn't clued in to the fact yet that his favorite kind of 1940s programming was dead and guys like Red Robinson would change local radio drastically within a few years.

[Jack Bennest]

I will ask him later this month - when is the Pride. I want to march behind the men in red serge.

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I will ask him later this month

Thanks, TD. Warren writing for Cullen sounds like something from an alternate universe.

when is the Pride. I want to march behind the men in red serge.

Tsk. You're so out of the loop (no, not that Loop). See the Cleaver thread.

Coincidentally, two young men in said serge (who looked a little young to actually be in the RCMP) strolled past the patio where I was resting during a strenuous Pride Day. They received applause from those around me.

cArtie.

[Jack Bennest]

For those that think Warren was always a newsman.

He was an announcer/writer/disc jockey at CKDA and prior

Went to NW in the early fifties to do general duties, taking the tape deck up to RCH to interview kids for Christmas, writing episodes of Ranger's Cabin, starring in same.

It was later in the fifties when he was attracted to the newsroom and when Jim Cox bowed out from too many duties doing sports and news... Warren found his niche and became news director.

As for me being looped - I have been away from the Vancouver Loop (fruit loop?) for almost thirty years. I joined the fruit on the vine in the Okanagan.