I'll miss Roy Green on Saturday and Sundays.  His show was repetitious, right-wing and pro-Trump, but upfront about it, and a welcome alternative to disability law and fancy coloured diamond infomercial shilling. 

I've been listening to Mr. Green for more than a few years  

I am very sorry to hear this news today

He lost his wife recently and with his serious health issues I get it.

I wish him the very best

 

Radiowiz wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

what, if anything, will take his place come February?

I'm strictly guessing there will be some guest hosts for a while, filling in
before finally giving the timeslot to a permanent host.

I hope you're right. I'm expecting more rerolls from 640's weekday programming like CFRB does on the weekends. We'll know soon.

Thank you Roy for the hours of listening during the  years of working Saturday-Sundays in a tilt ' n ' load tow truck hauling vehicles around the province. Best wishes to you . 

Last edited by mic'em (December 29, 2024 10:20 am)

I wish Roy the best as a person, and am sad to know he's been diagnosed as terminal.
He seems optimistic, however.
His weekend show was at least a serious option in a morass of horrible infomercial type shows like buying gold and hiring an employment lawyer.
And even those shows are masterpieces compared with that phony "Doctor" Pincus with his bogus snake oil "cures."
I could not listen to Roy for very long though.  His unimaginative right-wingness, culminating in a recent open admission that he would have voted for Trump if he was an American, was ghastly.
I don't know how any half way intelligent person, let alone news oriented broadcaster could possibly be a Trumpist -- and a Canadian to boot.
Horrid!
But, good luck Roy.


 

RadioActive wrote:

Former CHCH News Director John Best pays tribute to Green in a column in the Bay Observer, noting he never let his politics get in the way of doing the right thing - such as when he spent almost two decades tracking down a driver who killed a young boy or tried to save a major job provider in his Hamilton home town.

"When Stelco was going through one of its periodic flirts with bankruptcy, Roy urged Hamiltonians to buy Stelco stock, which was pretty cheap at that time and more than 1,200 residents did, purchasing 750,000 shares...

He was credited with tracking down a driver who had run down and killed a Hamilton youngster and then fled back to the US which he had left as a draft dodger. The man had been on the lam for 18 years."

Not many talk show hosts can boast doing even that much in their entire careers. And reviewing some of them will be the subject of his final four weekend of shows.

One quibble with the article - Green's final program is Jan. 26th, not the 29th as the story suggests. 

Broadcaster Roy Green to end talk show

It's appropriate enough to honour the departed with kind words, and each and every one of us is entitled to decide our own politics (within humane reason of course). But how do these two examples illustrate someone never letting their politics get in the way of doing the right thing? One could even reasonably argue that pursuing a draft dodger and not being soft on crime fall entirely within a right-leaning point of view. Those two endeavours are commendable, but what politics did he have to brush out of the way to accomplish them? People holding various different political ideologies no doubt can do very decent things - indeed, sometimes even the fiercest of ideologues (left, right or in between) can have utterly non-political moments or interests.