Thanks for posting Aytononline, like darcyh I am going to try and go on Saturday.

Am I vaguely considering a day trip from across the border?

Yeah...

fybush wrote:

And having nothing better to do on a sunny Saturday, I'm on my way up to Wingham! Should get there 11:30-ish, and I will try to share some pictures.

That would be greatly appreciated.

Just got back from there myself. I haven't been inside any radio stations in recent years, so it was nice to see. Back in 1969 or 70 (I was 10 or 11 years old at the time) I had a tour of the building, and thought it was the coolest thing ever. That tour influenced me to eventually take up broadcast engineering as a career.

This time I was hoping that I might recognize anything from the last tour but, alas, with the TV part gone the building has changed around quite a bit.

I did meet up with a couple of fellow SOWNYers. Nice to put faces to the names!

I had the pleasure of meeting Scott Fybush and his wife and also Davenet.  Sorry that we didn't meet up darcyh, I really wanted to meet and talk to you.  

I was at the station for two hours, and it seemed to still be busy when I left around 2:20.  I was hoping to meet a few colleagues from when I worked at NX, and I did.  One was John Chippa who retired a few years back.  John was in the news department for 43 years, and I knew him from Conestoga College.  He was in the class of '78.  CKNX was one of those places where quite a few employees spent all, or almost all of career at the station. 

 It was a great day, well attended by the public.  Such a big building for three radio stations now that CKNX TV is long gone! I forgot to ask if F. E. Madill high school next door was still renting out space.  They were renting out some of the large office area and using it for classrooms I believe.  The CKNX building is kind of funky, many levels inside and should be a heritage property since the architecture really represents the  modern era of the early 1960's.  The tour today was only a small part of the whole building.

As you will see by the photos when they get posted, CKNX did a wonderful job with tons of memorabilia and old equipment on display and hundreds and hundreds of photos everywhere. Thanks to the staff members who worked at hosting and shuffling the many groups of 10-15 people through the tour.  They even had CKNX 100th Anniversary cookies wrapped in individual packages for anyone to have. 

A few more pics

Channel 8 TV news set
Some CKNX memories both photos

Regards 

Last edited by darcyh (June 14, 2026 4:45 pm)

darcyh wrote:

Here is my attempt to upload some photos.

 
Thanks for sharing your CKNX photos darcyh, appreciated!