CFOX Vancouver - Bill Courage - 1994

[albertaboy4life]

From the RadioWest aircheck archives -

Bill Courage's first afternoon drive show on Vancouver's 99.3 the Fox after his departure from the morning show on rival, Rock 101 CFMI. On a Monday afternoon in late February 1994 Steve Dunbar introduces Bill, and Erin Davis updates the day's news.

While David Letterman's mom is at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway reporting for his CBS Late Show, Bill's mom is at Safeway with her own take.

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Gord Lansdell's vancouverbroadcasters.com provides the following career summary for Bill -

Bill Courage - BCIT broadcast graduate; CHNL Kamloops 1981; sports CKNW New Westminster circa 1984; CKLG Vancouver 1985; CHNL 1985; CKOV Kelowna 1985-86; CFMI-FM Vancouver late 1980s; PD CHRK-FM Kamloops 1989-90; CKNW/ CFMI-FM early 1990s; p.m. drive co-host CFOX-FM Vancouver 1994-99; a.m. drive co-host CKST Vancouver 2001; CHMJ and host Courage Adventure Show CKNW Vancouver 2002-04; p.m. drive CFQX-FM Winnipeg 2004-09; voice of CTV BC and Manitoba to 2009; p.m. drive co-host CHHR-FM Vancouver 2009-10 then a.m. drive host 2010-11; voice for 2010 Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium for Bell Media and Rogers Media 2010; voice over talent current.

He is currently the voice of Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation doing spots and in-game voice overs for its Flames, Roughnecks and Stampeders games and for Bell's CTV Winnipeg. Bill was the station's imaging voice for 770 CHQR Calgary during its easy listening "QR-77" days in the late '80s.

Anybody got a copy of Glen Stace's "Runaround" to share?

[DonovanTildesley]

The Bill and Bob (Say) CFMI firing that Bill references in his first break marked a rather interesting chapter in Vancouver radio history. Their replacements, Tom (McGouran) and Jerry AKA Larry (Updike) lasted all of six months before the plug was pulled on the show, and Bob Say was brought back for mornings - if memory serves he spent the in between time doing fill-in work for CKNW. I have always been curious as to why the show was ended so abruptly, when normally stations (at least FM music stations) would give a show at least 1-2 years. Either way, CFMI's loss was CFOX's gain, as Bill had a successful 5.5 year run in PM drive. And hey, his mother Doty sounds pretty decent on this 'check as well!