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  • Thanks :D

    I will check those out.

  • They did that in 1990 - that was before the internet became popular. I know Windsor is capable of far more ... there used to be more daily newscasts just a few years ago !

  • Yes but the CBC lately has been all about cutbacks !

  • Yep....its okay to read American content (ie : Detroit Free Press, NY Times, etc..) but to WATCH American programming on TV..nooooooooo because the CRTC are a bunch of snobs who only care about their own agenda/bottom line (and their pockets)

  • the CRTC ruined everything.

  • Yes, the same goes with "BIG 8" radio station. Gawsh I miss those days !

  • Whatever happened to Sue Prestige? and David Compton.

    Late 70's and early 80's I beleive.

    Windsor had a good nightly newscast.

  • They were both in the late 70s - I think they both moved out of Windsor in the early 80s. I think Sue went out west but I'm not sure about David Compton.

  • Jim Wicks looks a bit like Jim Carey.

  • Am I the only one to notice that when he said, "...raise your right hand", he raised his left? I know what he was trying to do, but seriously... you're not a mirror, buddy...

  • For you older folks, prior to CBET, Channel 9 Windsor was also known as "CKLW".

  • This appears to be a CBLT newscast fed to CBET and CBOT.

  • You know, that thought has crossed my mind. I dont have an intro or outro for the newscast. But why would they be doing this? I thought CBC still had money back then and wouldn't need to do this... Each station could just make their own.

  • Don't forget though, there were massive budget cuts to the CBC in 1984, and Midday replaced some noon-hour local news programs on CBC stations across Canada. CBLT, for example, had its own noon-hour show.

  • You may be right. Hopefully we can get someone who knows if Jim Wicks was a CBLT or CBET anchor.

  • I did a bit of digging and Jim Wicks was indeed with CBLT, from 1985-89. He later was on CKY, so RetroWinnipeg should know of him.

  • Hmm, that is interesting. There were segments in this newscast ending with ..."CBC News, Windsor"

  • Probably for the same reason we here in London get "Christie Bezaire, A-Channel News, Windsor" on weekends.

  • Ah yes, that must be it. So there we have it, Weekend news was Province-wide at this time. I guess early signs of the severe budget cuts that were to come. We almost lost our CBC in Windsor when those came in... 93 I think.

  • Yes I remember Windsor having the 'Midday' at noon - usually their newscasts had nothing to do with Windsor at all !

  • Wow, that's old

    - DrCraw5 Media

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