Manitoba Business: CJOB Radio

This Winnipeg-based radio station was established in March 1946 by John Oliver “Jack” Blick. He sold it in 1961.

Broadcasters

Broadcaster	Period
John Joseph “Red” Alix (1926-2010)	35 years
Carol Noreen Little Partridge Armit (1943-2024)	1979-1985
Edward “Ted” Benoit (1924-2002)	?-?
Frank Donald Cielen (1931-2013)	?-?
James Ian “Jim” Coghill (1935-2005)	1969-1986
Marshall David Armstrong Collison [Marshall Armstrong] (1945-2009)	?-?
George Clifford “Cliff” Gardner (1928-2003)	1949-1956, 1960-1969
Daniel “Danny” Gutkin (1916-2005)	?-?
John Harvard (1938-2016)	?-?
Joyce Gardner Holmes Hepburn (?-2006)	?-?
Robert “Bob/Doc” Holliday (1942-2022)	?-?
William Donn Kirton (1934-2021)	?-?
Harold Loster (1927-2008)	?-?
John Brewster “Jack” Matheson (1924-2011)	1980-?
George McCloy (1922-2009)	?-?
Kenneth Rodney “Ken” “The Friar” Nicolson (1943-1992)	1969-1981, ?-1992
Dudley Armand Paterson (1914-2003)	44 years
Robert J. “Bob” Picken (1932-2019)	1965-1969
Frank Roberts (1938-1998)	1980s
David S. Robertson (?-2004)	1947-1952
Jack Shapira (1926-2003)	?-?
William Joseph “Bill” Trebilcoe (1921-1971)	?-?
Lawrence Robert “Larry” Updike (c1954-2024)	1995-2004
Robert Lawrence “Bob” Washington (1934-2016)	?-?
Eric Joseph Hampson Wells (1917-1993)	?-?
John Hampson “Cactus Jack” Wells (1911-1999)	?-?

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lindsay Building (228 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg)

Sources:

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 11 December 2024