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    January 3, 2017 12:35 pm  #1

    geo
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    TODAY in south west ontario + western north york radio - by request

    Robert Fulford's column in today's National Post ("Arts & Life") reviews a book titled Canada Before Television.   Here's a few items:

     - Happy Gang fans created an uproar when Maclean's magazine published an article titled "The Unhappy Gang" that disclosed that most couldn't stand each other

     - the Eddie Cantor show that ran Sunday evenings generated criticism because it was "hardly the thing to serve up to Canadians on a Sunday" 

     - the CBC had the power to censor private stations!

     - the word "laxative" could be used only once in a commercial

     - sh!t like that.    I enjoyed it

    geo 

     

    January 3, 2017 2:24 pm  #2

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    geo wrote:

     Happy Gang fans created an uproar when Maclean's magazine published an article titled "The Unhappy Gang" that disclosed that most couldn't stand each other 

    NOTE:   this was the CBC Happy Gang of the 1950s and must not be confused with today's AM-740 Happy Gang
     

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    January 3, 2017 6:20 pm  #3

    geo
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    grilled.cheese wrote:

     Thanks for clearing that up  

    It was for the information of those youngsters from the K-W board that regularly lurk here 
     

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    January 3, 2017 8:22 pm  #4

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    geo wrote:

    Robert Fulford's column in today's National Post ("Arts & Life") reviews a book titled Canada Before Television.  
    geo 

    Link to the article:

    How the story of Canada before television is the story of radio

     

    January 3, 2017 10:11 pm  #5

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    np;dr

     

    January 8, 2017 12:30 pm  #6

    Prod Guy
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    geo wrote:

    grilled.cheese wrote:

     Thanks for clearing that up  

    It was for the information of those youngsters from the K-W board that regularly lurk here 
     

    60 year-olds can be obnoxious.  The 75 year-olds here are much more civilized.  

     

    January 8, 2017 2:42 pm  #7

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    Prod Guy wrote:

          
     
    60 year-olds can be obnoxious.  The 75 year-olds here are much more civilized.  

    I'd like Old Codger to weigh in on this ^^^
     

      
     

     

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