Ex CHEZ jock Mike Giunta and I got into a bit more detail:

Radio was the dream job of kidss like me back in the 1960's, 70's, and into the 80's. Sad to see it in the state it's become today because it didn't have to happen.
Technologically we could have kept up with the times, like the British have. (Do you know DAB (Digital audio broadcasting) is doing fabulously well in most of the world? Excepting, of course, here)
Radio is being destroyed systematically by the people with the power to "fix it." But, they are bankers and accountants who don't know the first thing about what made radio great in the first place...
Artistic creativity.
You (Mike) understand it, I know. Harvey Glatt understood it, but the smartest move he made was selling CHEZ FM when he did. So did Jim Waters and Gary Slaight!

I fought what I thought was a good fight, but lost, crashed and burned out. Luckily I reinvented myself doing talk radio, which is the only place left to go if you want to be a personality on radio today. Otherwise get used to reading liner cards and saying "That was.."This is... "You're listening to (fill in the blank) minutes of non-stop...and don't forget to tune in tomorrow morning for..."
Remember that old  CHEZ 106 ad about "Break the General morning habit"? (referring to Ken "The General" Grant of heavyweight morning man on 580 CFRA) The picture in the ad had a guy face down on his pillow putting a hammer through his radio! That's me today listening to almost any station...
🤢 p.s. If you want to hear what can be done with radio today...and done THE RIGHT WAY! Give a listen to Indie 88 Toronto! They've got it!😜

It's not the first regularly scheduled show, but rather a special to promote Ford's new car "The Edsel".
In this show they kinescoped as well as videotaped the program, running the kinescope at the same time in case the videotape failed.
This video compares both methods side by side:EDSEL SHOW 1957 with BING CROSBY =kinescope first video tape

Hansa wrote:

Sorry to hear this
Have you considered starting a podcast and/or a livestream show online with a Patreon account alongside it?

Yes, but I still like being on the radio yet many are telling me to retire and get out of the business.
I don't want to!
If I can do it I'll die behind a microphone... (How many times have I done that unintentionally?)
p.s. Here's the Patreon link if you want to help: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4661526
Thanks!

Wally was a hero to me growing up.  He was always the best!

I found the archive of CKLW 20/20 Newscasts and clips that covered each day beginning jan. 1 1964 and done so that you could recreate each day if you wanted to.  Amazing!  Dick Smyth started it when he was at CKLW and Byron MacGregor continued it until the newsroom and the operation fell apart after Bassett sold CK in 1980 or so.
It was buried under garbage piled up in the station basement together with audition tapes sent to Paul Drew, The RKO "History of Rock" etc...
The tapes were in terrible shape saved only by neglect.
When I contacted the National Archives of Canada they sent a archivist from Ottawa THE NEXT DAY!
The Archives paid to have the entire collection preserved and were astounded that it had been kept by a private broadcaster.

I explained to my son that he never would have been conceived without two gay men.
Me & Freddy Mercury of Queen.
He looked puzzled, but the truth is that had his mothers best friend not won the "Meet Freddie Mercury & Queen Contest" with Mark Elliot on CFRA Ottawa, I doubt I would have met her.

My all time favorite "Loathsome Broadcast" was the funeral announcements daily at 12:30 pm on CFRA Ottawa, for "The Kelly Funeral Homes".

I had just agreed to take over the evening show on CFRA in November of 1976 when I sat in my hotel room and decided I should turn on this new radio rocker I was to be working at and find out what they sounded like...


So I dialed "580" just in time for the funeral announcements...

I remember at that moment I began praying: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, what have I gotten myself into?"
 

Brian has been on Newstalk 1010 where I worked with him.  He was the Parliamentary Correspondent and he's never been a lefty that I know of.  Even so, I found him balanced and fair in his commentary, and I'm noted as a leftist. 
He certainly has my respect.

Sylvie will be much happier in Ottawa! 
I went through this with my first wife who was French from Quebec City.  She hated Winnipeg when we lived there, but Ottawa was perfect.  Just French enough and just English enough.  Just right!

Perhaps Bill is doing what he is out of concern for his family.
If so, Good for Bill!
Radio is damned demanding on the best of relationships and if he's doing this out of love for Sylvie - Good for Bill!
Radio jobs come and go, but family is forever...

Too true!

I was asleep when he posted.  Dumped it asap.
Still, it's fun razzing the haters!
Did I ever tell you about reading Lowell Greens hate-mail at CFRA? WOW!
Was that nasty!
Mine is mild by comparison. Then they always compliment me for PHP...Weird.

I was brought in by A. (Kip) Morecroft who later ended up running Rogers Cable's Community Channel, but died very young. 
Kip was the brightest and the best I ever met!
I remember him explaining concepts like "Pay Television" which sounds bizarre today, but you have to believe it made "no sense whatsoever" to my mind in 1970.  "Why would anyone pay for television?" was my mindset at the time.
He got me to understand things like "personal programming" and "the wired city" when the concepts were futuristic drivel to most everyone.
At Rogers he inherited a 2" video machine nicknamed "the white elephant" that took up a whole room but never worked properly.

I don't usually mention it, but I did a course at Humber College when it first opened in Rexdale.  (Was it 1970?) Anyhow, Graham Cable TV was opening their Community Channel and sponsored a group of volunteers to train at Humber. It was intense and taught us all the TV basics which was, when working with obsolete cameras and equipment, a lot more than any volunteer who followed got trained.

The lead instructor was "Jerry" (and I'll be damned if I can remember his last name...help!) who saw me as this impetuous kid who was determined he should be on the air at 16! "I could do it better!"

Jerry took the time to ground me into reality of how to get a job.  How to present ideas and how to basically "Win friends and Influence People".

I'm sure he gave the same talk to every kid who entered the program and thought nothing of it.  But, it stuck in me and I've always done my best to discourage people from a career that's broken almost every heart associated with it in some way, shape or form.

Media eats people up and spits them out faster than you can blink.  Harder still is dealing with what comes after success.

"How many mountains have I fallen off of in my career?" I ask.

Warren Cosford was quoted saying that he thought I'd commit suicide when my djing career came to an end in 1994.  That's not a whole lot of confidence...