CHED Edmonton - Rob Christie - 1979

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CHED Edmonton - Rob Christie - 1979

Postby albertaboy4life » Sat Apr 01, 2023 5:39 am

From the Don Kennedy aircheck archives -

Listener Alert - this was an April Fools' Day hoax

1050 CHUM's Mike Cooper did it first and our friend, Dale Patterson, has shared it on his excellent Rock Radio Scrapbook site - http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/arc-oct26.html

Rob Christie at CHED Edmonton Image Edmonton Journal 29 October 1981

At around 3:30 pm on Sunday April 1st, 1979 Rob Christie, who had returned to Edmonton's 630 CHED in December 1978 from CKGM Montreal, "Got It."

https://soundcloud.com/westernbroadcast ... ie-gets-it

Image Edmonton Journal 2 April 1979

This is dubbed from the raw tape. Rob's jock sonovox along with a 1979 CHED jingle, from TM's Alternative package, have been added to bookend the recording.

Fraser was a character that was created and originally voiced by Bob McCord who had left CHED in May 1978. Rob continued to voice the character into the early '80s on his CHED afternoon drive show. Rob and Fraser can be heard at the start of this 1982 aircheck also courtesy of Dale Patterson - http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/ched-christie-feb16-82.mp3

Image Edmonton Journal 5 April 1979

Image Edmonton Journal 15 May 1979

Image Edmonton Journal 16 May 1979

Rob retired from Edmonton's 96.3 Capital FM in February 2018 and continues working as a voice actor - https://www.voxboxbyrobchristie.com/copy-of-voxbox

Our sister site, BC Radio History, has this profile of Rob - https://bcradiohistory.com/Biographies/RobChristie.htm

Thank you to Don Kennedy for the recording. At the time, Don was working in Calgary at CHED's sister station, 1140 CKXL.

And thanks to our friend Sharkey (Mark Summers) for the TM cuts.

Your aircheck and jingle contributions are welcomed, too. PM me or e-mail radiowest@telus.net
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