It has been a long time since I posted on this forum and I unfortunately return with some very sad news. Many here may remember the name Clint Nickerson, a veteran Canadian broadcaster who was born in Vancouver and cut his teeth there, before making a very successful move to Toronto in the 70s.
I was sorry to hear that Clint passed away quite suddenly from lung cancer on Saturday. He was 66 and had apparently only been diagnosed with the disease just a month or so before his passing.
Clint worked out west for many years before getting the opportunity to move to Toronto, where he spent two different go-rounds at CFTR during its Top 40 days, coming back the second time to be the producer of "Sunday Sunday," the very first nationally syndicated news documentary show ever attempted in private radio in Canada. It lasted only a year because it was simply too expensive to produce, but its ratings were good and it was a pioneering effort at the time. He later spent time at CJCL-AM as its P.D., before returning to another former stomping ground, Citytv in Toronto, where he worked for a few decades as the main news producer on what was then known as "CityPulse Tonight."
In later years, he moved back to the west coast, this time Victoria, where he was in upper management at what is now CIVI-TV. He kept his hand in the biz after retiring a few years ago, operating the board at one of the Rogers stations in town. But his main love, besides his terrific wife Alisa, was golf and you could find him playing it any day the weather cooperated. He once told me he considered Victoria and the west coast to be "paradise" and he was happy to be back there.
He was a mentor to me in my career and our paths seemed to cross many, many times. But it appears he did that for a lot of people and I always made sure to tell him how much that was appreciated. His funeral will be private but there will likely be a celebration of his life at some point in the near future. As lives go, it was a pretty good one, if sadly way, way too short.