This thread is for people who remember CKDA in the time of Dave Hill and Gordon Reid. I received the above clip and the letter below this morning and hoping our faithful readers will help out with some of the announcers and possibly the date of the broadcast (even if just in years)
Gordon Reid was the Number 2 person at CKDA for many early years. He was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, travelled with a stock company...Edmund Harvey Productions..."Bachelor Husband." Started in radio at CJOR to CFRN to CKNW and then to CKDA. He co-hosted "Housewives Holiday:" on CKDA for several years, also emceed a public participation show called, "Meet The People." For a time he announced a 30 minute evening show of classical music called, "Treasure Chest."
Dave Hill - CFRN Edmonton circa 1934-41; CKMO Vancouver 1941; staff announcer CJOR Vancouver 1942-47; program manager/morning host/co-host Meet the People CKDA Victoria 1950s
Bernie (?) Ryall
Dear Sir,
I'm writing to you, hoping you might be able to help me with a bit of Canadian broadcasting history.
I work as a music librarian at the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound, a record collection of primarily analogue material. I was cataloguing a recent addition to our collection when I came over a curiosity. Among the regular music recordings, there was a 78-record, without any information on the label, containing what seems to be an excerpt from a Canadian radio program. My guess is it's from around the 1950s.
Unfortunately, my knowledge of Canadian radio shows is rather limited, so I'm in need of some help identifying the station, the show, the persons involved and an approximate timeframe for this clip. While I was searching the Internet, I came across the webpage http://www.bcradiohistory.com/ , which led me to you. I was hoping an expert, such as yourself, could recognize something an uninitiated foreigner like myself could not.
From the clip I'm able to discern some possible names: Dave Hill and Bernie Ryall (?), which might point to the station CKDA, and possibly the radio shows Housewives holiday or Meet the people, if my diggings through the Internet is anything to go by.
If you could take the time to listen through the clip I'm attaching, and be able to recognize anything, or could refer me to someone who might be able to help me, I would be sincerely grateful.
Yours faithfully,
Sissel Marie Vatne
Musikkbibliotekar / Music Librarian
Norsk Lydinstitutt Stavanger / Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound
