I had the great privilege as a young operator to "produce" his evening news package on CKFM quite often.   I also worked with him "across the hall" at CFRB.   My memory is that the package was at least 20 minutes long with a separate sports package - I believe Dave Hodge did the sports package.  Literally dozens of recorded reports on cart.  One must appreciate there were no computers, just teletype copy and a manual Olivetti typewriter.  And many (audio) stories originated with Standard Broadcast News, or one of their U.S. news affiliates - probably NBC at that time.  There was often a report from "Jocko Thomas - at Po-lice Head-quarters" .  I don't think that the electronic Selectric had been invented or made its way into the CFRB/CKFM newsroom.  Can you imagine the work that went into the production of that news program each day - everything done manually.  Like Skywave, i share the same recollection of Jack as a very warm and humble human being.  And I might add, that's one reason why CFRB could legitimately say "Ontario's authoritative news voice".   I don't dwell in the past, but that type of journalism is long gone in commercial radio.

It might have been Wally Crouter's retirement show that I heard this. Bill Stevenson's Sportscast aired before Jack Dennett because station management was concerned that non sports listeners would tune out after the newscast if that was when it aired. They reasoned that listeners would suffer through the sports so as not to miss the Dennett newscast.

Evuguy wrote:

I remember him from my childhood. Oddly, just a couple of days ago, after listening to NT1010's 8am news, I found myself thinking that I wished they could find someone who could present the news like Jack Dennett could. He really connected with his audience. I think it would be great if they could also bring back the bugle intro, as it caught your ear and made 'RB newscast stand out.

That was called "Hunter's Horn" and it was used to introduce the newscast of Dennett's predecessor, Jim Hunter. It became so iconic and so associated with the news and the time slot, that it stayed there for many years long after Hunter had passed away.