Found this notice in my last Bell Bill....A laCarte Tv item is going up by $3.50 per month January 1st.  What are we getting extra....nothing I think!  Though the price was increased this year or last.  

   Who really cares!!  Lots of American channels available.  Why keep pushing radio unless you are not near a televsion or still havent purchased that latest piece of electronics!

   This brings back a few memories from my early days in radio at CJET Smiths Falls.  Read the notices in the late fifties and early sixties, when available each day.   In my mind it was just another part of the job.  When I look at other postings, it reminds me that I may be one of the older posters.   Left broadcasting in 1971 after times at CJET, CFCO and CHOW....memories that still remain in old age.

   Used to enjoy watching the test pattern for CBC Ottawa when visiting my grandmother in the capital city.   Could hardly wait until real programs started in both French and English on the same channel.  Eventually our home north of Kingston could receive Watertown, New York and then CKWS TV .  Time frame was in the middle 1950's.   Boy am I old!!

  He was at the event for the original sign-on.  It is my understanding he became ill and left the broadcast.

  Its about time.  The bloated bureaucracy of the CBC should be  cut considerably.   The discussion continues regarding Radio on this forum.  It is time that many should realize that it is dead.  Sorry for the few left working and the many soon to be without jobs.

   Think I posted this info many years ago.  We were married in 1963 and bought a brand new television during the first six months (black and white)  Found out that Channel 7 in Watertown was going to  start with colour programs that fall.   Headed out and bought a 26"  round screen RCA colour tv.  It was installed and a new antenna put up at our rental apartment.  Invited a number of people from the radio station to watch the first colour show on CBS at 8 o'clock.   It came on but in gorgeous black and white.  I had forgotten to turn up the colour button.  We were lucky to see one colour show each day.  Incidently it was the second colour television sold in Smiths Falls..the first went to the owner of the coke bottler.  At the time I was working at CJET Radio.  A long time ago and the attraction of all the bells and whistles  on a television remains to this day.   The colour tv in a metal cabinet cost.$619.

  Sorry but getting sick of the so called "woke" generation.  A few people want to run (ruin) the world and are given more chances than any other organization without a lot of merit.  Just change the channel.

  Sorry to hear about Don.  Most of the remembrances mentioned are in Toronto.   In my case Don and I worked together at CJET radio in Smiths Falls in the early sixties. If memory serves me it was his second broadcasting job in Ontario after his return from California.  Many fond memories were made during that period and we continued on our separate ways....Don stayed in broadcasting and I moved on to another career and our paths crossed a few times.  For those of us in my age range, the 80s, almost every week another name is added to the list of those who have departed.  So long old friend and thanks for the memories.