For those moving up in the business back in the day, working at Edmonton's CHED likely seemed to be a greener pasture.
Now the land where the original CHED building used to be is going to be a green space.
Alberta Blue Cross owns the land the building sits on, and some accountant probably figured it was cheaper to pay for simple lawn care than maintain an aging structure that was as empty as its future.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-blue-cross-edmonton-1.5113531Note that the CBC article mourns the passing of a restaurant, and the fact that it was the custom-built home of a radio station that once owned a 40 per cent (some say 60) market share seems to have been forgotten.
But that's the trouble with history. There's no one around to remember it ... with the possible exception of Bob Layton and Bryan Hall who each have had a radio career at CHED that lasted longer than the building on 107th Street.
One would wonder if a plaque or something should be installed.
Here's my suggestion:
March 1954 to April 2019.
On this site once stood the legendary radio station 630 CHED, where Bob Layton redefined the pronunciation of the word "murrrrrrrder," where Bryan Hall first met his weather guy, where Eddie Keen warned listeners twice-daily that the story he was about to tell would make them sick, where Russ Campbell bashed fellow jock Len Theusen on the back of the head with a telephone receiver, where Rob Christie got charged by police after airing the sounds of gunshots followed by screams on April Fool's Day, and where Wes Montgomery and Chuck Chandler used to go to work in the mornings after partying all night.Now that's history worth remembering.