Category: People
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Sam Lutfiyya gone at 53
Sam Lutfiyya was responsible for financing the original Red Rock Diner. He also helped Dean Regan on his play A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline. He was a friend and a musical genius. I will miss him. Read the full story at winnipegfreepress.com.
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Tony Parsons: Long Overdue Honor, New Book
At last Global BC’s Tony Parsons is being recognized for his contributions to Canadian broadcasting by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. Tony has been a fixture on the Vancouver media scene for decades. I believe that if this talented newsman and anchor was in Toronto the honors would have gone his way a long time…
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Still Spinning After All These Years
Exactly 55 years ago this afternoon, 16-year-old Red Robinson returned from the Okanagan to his part-time operator’s job in CJOR‘s broadcasting studio. From his office in the Howe-off-Robson Grosvenor Hotel, program director Vic Waters said he’d fired the disc jockey for whom Robinson cued and spun records. “Why don’t you go on and do the…
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Weekend Profile: Curtis Pope
Richmond High grad Curtis Pope picked up his second straight B.C. Country Music Association Award for best on-air personality last week, but the voice behind Country 107.1 wasn’t always all country. (more from Martin van den Hemel at richmondreview.com)
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55 Years And Counting!
Staff and management at fm104.9 surprised me yesterday with a salute in the main lobby. It was a great moment and totally unexpected. Morning man Scott Miller also surprised with a nice “anniversary plug”. Click to listen. Thanks Scott! [audio:https://redrobinson.com/blog/audio/scottmiller_nov5.mp3|loader=0xFFC0C0]
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CP Air commercial video, 1984
Years ago I was contracted as the voice on many CP Air TV commercials and I even appeared on camera as a background passenger in a mocked up airplane. I also did a series for CP Air Holidays. My brother Bill was the president of this division. He created The Vegas Machine, The Reno Machine…
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Vancouver’s Star Walk gets an upgrade!
October 6 saw the first installation of brand new plaques for the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame on the Star Walk along Vancouver’s Granville Street. This initiative recognizes British Columbians who have made an outstanding contribution to our entertainment industry in Vancouver, across Canada and around the world. Each year the nominating committee selects a…
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Promoter, former KJR DJ Pat O’Day keeps on truckin’
The man never stops hustling. He is Pat O’Day, 75, Pacific Northwest legend. Until the day he dies, he’ll likely be blanketing the airwaves with yet one more Schick Shadel commercial, or calling a hydroplane race on TV, or promoting another rock show. (more from Erik Lacitis at the Seattle Times)
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Susan Jacks battles kidney failure
Susan Jacks has spent much of the last decade as a caregiver. She looked after her late husband Ted Dushinski while he battled lung cancer, and in recent years has taken care of her brother Bruce as he fought leukemia and colon cancer. Now the voice of The Poppy Family has health problems of her…
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C.H.I.L.D. Foundation Golf Tournament
On Monday September 21 the C.H.I.L.D. Foundation held its second annual golf tournament to raise funds for research into intestinal diseases. Grace McCarthy began the foundation years ago when her granddaughter was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. I joined due to my son Jeffrey’s affliction with Crohn’s. The disease eventually took his life at 33 years…