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2.19.2009

Old 24Hours news them from 1979 - June 1982.

I grew up watching CBWT's 24Hours news program in the 1970s. My Dad would take me to his parent's home on Dudley Ave. around 6:30 p.m., while we left Mom behind to watch CJAY News. I was was 4 years old at the time and we'd watch Garth Dawley read the news, and then grandpa would turn off the sound so that we could talk.

That's all I remember from that period.

In the mid-1970s we used to watch CKY News.

By the Spring of 1979 there was a flood in the Red River Valley, and I switched channels from CKY to CBWT where the program 24Hours was on. I found the reporting to be quite a bit better than what CKY had done. 24Hours had included in-studio interviews by John Robertson, and others as well as feature documentaries on a regular basis.

The set was simple blue screen, but it was all they had back then.

It was a somewhat of a magical period, even more so than during the mid- and late 1980s when Mike McCourt took over has host of the program.

But the 1979 to 1982 period I find to be the best. The Youtube video below is the 24Hours theme used back. The title was called "Gathering Crowds" by Mike Vikers (aka Patrick J. O'Hara Scott).

2.17.2009

Digital Cable PSA

Digital tv is coming to Canada. Better be ready, LOL