Ray Torgrud Obit CFUN/CJAY-TV/CKRD

[slowhand]

RAYMOND DAVID TORGRUD
1930 - 2010
Peacefully, on Saturday, November 6, 2010, Ray passed away at [Winnipeg's?] Victoria General Hospital at 80 years of age. Ray was born on June 28, 1930 in Red Deer, Alberta. It was there that he began his broadcast career in radio at CKRD. With the advent of television, he worked at CHCT Calgary and CHCA Red Deer, before a brief return to radio at CFUN in Vancouver. In 1960, Ray and Karen moved to Winnipeg for the opening of CJAY-TV, now CKY, where he performed a variety of announcing duties and spent many years as host of the public service show, Today's World. He loved the variety of his guests and the education he gained from interviewing such a diversity of people. He retired in 1992.

For a picture and the full obit: http://www.passagesmb.com/obituary_deta ... tID=171042

[drmusic]

And just as CJAY/CKY celebrates its 50th anniversary. Here's CTV Winnipeg's video page, which includes the station's 20th and 30th anniversary specials hosted by Mr. Torgrud.

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTemp ... ge=50Video

[jon]

A fresh new entry on VancouverBroadcasters.com:

Ray Torgrud - (Raymond David Torgrud) CKRD Red Deer AB mid 1950s; CHCT-TV Calgary 1956-57; operations manager CHCA-TV Red Deer 1957-60; news/voiced intro "A C-FUN Flashback" CFUN Vancouver 1960; staff announcer/news anchor/talk show host including host Today's World CJAY-TV/CKY-TV Winnipeg 1960-92; retired 1992. Died in Winnipeg November 6, 2010 at age 80