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If you haven't watched Tuesday's Son Of A Critch on CBC, this doesn't require a spoiler, because it has almost nothing to with the plot. But it was a weird meta moment, with a giant mistake in it.
Famed Canadian comedian Rick Mercer plays the owner of VOCM, St. John's, Newfoundland. In a scene from the show, he's telling Mike Critch (played by Mark Critch) about the other stations he controls. Most of them are legit.
He mentions CKCM (which is a real station in Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld.), CHCM (Marystown, Nfld.) and CHVO, which is noted as bring a rebroadcaster of VOCM, which in fact, it is. It's located in Carbonear, Nfld. (All are actually owned by Stingray.)
But the mistake comes when Mercer mentions one last set of call letters - CKCO. That, of course, is the Bell-owned CTV TV station in Kitchener. As far as I know, it was never assigned to any radio station, and certainly not an AM outlet in Newfoundland. After apparently doing their homework, I can't help but wonder how they blew that last one - unless somehow it was a deliberate homage to the local TV outlet.
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Son Of A Critch is one of those shows that I do enjoy, but haven't watched on a regular basis. Last night's show was really good and entertaining. Interesting how all of the "kids" have grown over the past five years.
Got to hand it to CTV's ETalk and the fact they are not afraid to promote prime time shows from their competition. Over the past few days they have had feature stories on CBC's Son Of A Critch and the 20th Anniversary of Heartland. Also yesterday a feature on Global's new Private Eyes West Coast
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CKCO was the original callsign of the late CIWW 1310 in Ottawa, from its inception in 1922 until 1949 when it became CKOY.
The other tidbit of broadcasting history in last night’s episode was Mark dressing up as Captain Newfoundland. That was a character created for late-night programming on NTV in Newfoundland starting in 1978.
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MJ Vancouver wrote:
CKCO was the original callsign of the late CIWW 1310 in Ottawa, from its inception in 1922 until 1949 when it became CKOY.
You know, I remember reading that (although to be fair, those call were never used in Newfoundland). It appears the new owner back then, the legendary Jack Kent Cooke, wanted to be as close to his other radio station as possible, taking CKEY and turning it into CKOY.
This is from June 1949: