CHQM

People

People in 1971-72

To cut an otherwise impossible job down to size, this page looks only at people who worked at CHQM AM & FM in Vancouver between June 1971 and April 1972. The impossible, all on-air personalities who ever worked in Vancouver, is the task of the Vancouver Broadcasters web site. There you will find photos and more details on almost all of the people listed below.

Ian Alexander	Full-time Operator
Fran Anderson	Receptionist
Gary Barclay	Full-time Operator, occasional fill for Saturday night all night show
Barry Bell	News
Terry Bell	Announcer
Bill Bellman	Station Manager, putting up 15% of the money to start the station in 1959
Bob Brooks	Assistant Program Director, including supervising Operators and selecting music sets from 10 1/2 inch tape
Stan Davis	Chief Engineer
Art Enns	All night show, Sunday to Friday nights
Maurice Foisy	Program Director and on-air announcer
Nick Frost	Full-time Operator and on-air Saturday late night: News and all night show
Dave Geddes	Afternoon Drive Time Announcer, CHQM-AM
Jurgen Goth	Record Librarian and defacto Music Director 1971, then Creative Writer 1972
Dave Horne	Part-time Operator
Brad Keene	Sports Shorts and Morning Drive Time Announcer, CHQM-AM; simulcast on FM until September 1971
Mike Litton	Part-time Operator
Dave MacLachlan	News, from CKWX and President UBC Radio Society (CYVR, now CiTR)
Jon Pearkins	Part-time Operator
Bill Phillips	Midday Announcer, CHQM-AM
Dave Rogers	Engineer assigned to CHQM by Chief Engineer Stan Davis
George Sillery	News; Candlelight and Wine early evenings on CHQM-AM September 1971 only; passed away in 1984 while running a video production business in Victoria
Jack Stark	Majority Shareholder, passed away October 30, 2001, at the age of 83
Paul Taylor	News Director, arrived mid-1971 from News Radio where he was Ottawa Bureau Chief
Terry Timms	Production
Andy Walsh	Morning News

Voice Tracks

All announcers also did voice tracks for evenings and weekends on CHQM AM & FM.

Exceptions:

Terry Bell voice tracked Morning Drive Time on CHQM-FM beginning September 1971 when the CRTC reduced AM-FM simulcasting to All Nights only; Terry Bell recorded time checks for every minute, which were inserted manually by the Operator from reel-to-reel tape with 20 Hz stop tones.
George Sillery did Candlelight and Wine live on CHQM-AM in September 1971.
Terry Bell did Saturday afternoon "drive time" live on CHQM-AM until July 1971.

Autographs

Like most stations, CHQM mailed a QSL card for distant reception. These two are from New Zealand and Scandanavia.

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