As a young kid in east central Alberta I got to hear Ron MacLean on the music wave . . . 85 CKRD Radio as well watch him present the weather on CKRD-TV, when it was on Channel 10 in Coronation. Later, I got to watch Ron move behind the sports desk at CKRD-TV alongside anchors Steve Legault and Shelley Fine on Newscene at 5, each weekday afternoon.
Later I was living near Calgary when Jim Van Horne left CFAC-TV's sports department and as host of the Flames on 2&7 broadcasts, to join TSN at its launch, Ron joined Ed Whalen as Jim's replacement (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGzoSiL59Q). I know that the rest of Ron's well-earned success since joining CBC's Hockey Night in Canada after Dave Hodge's pencil throwing incident, due to a CBC programming decision, is much more widely known.
Very cool to hear this short aircheck of Ron, with what to my ear sounds an awful lot like the influences of two of the best ever - CHED's Wes Montgomery and Bob McCord.
Faster cars, younger women, older cheese, more money . . .