OUT OF THIN AIR

Art, never at a loss for words, threw away his notes and gave an impromptu description of events.

In 1937 also, we began broadcasting sixteen hours a day, from eight in the morning until midnight. The increasing expense and the longer hours of programming drove my father to search for additional revenues to meet these new expenses and he began to hire additional announcers and technicians.

CFCY had a warm and happy association with business firms all along the northern part of Nova Scotia. . .Neima, Margolian, McCullouch and Sobey, to name just a few, along with the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow and the Jubilee in Stellarton all became friends of the Station and we, in turn, did many hours of broadcasting for them. We began to have applications for jobs from the area and through the years many Nova Scotians worked at the station: Whit Carter, Sandy Hoyt, Bill Graham, Merrill Young, Max Corkum, Ed Watters, Dorothy MacDonald, Henry Purdy, Borden MacDonald, John Fanjoy, Ted Hale and Coralee Pugh and many others. Dozens of talented people came over to broadcast and I remember one special night when we had almost all of the Pictou Highland Pipe Band in our studio along with their pipes and drums.

The listeners there and in other parts of the Martimes were prolific letter writers. If they liked a program they were appreciative and if they didn’t like what we were doing, we would hear about it. The sports fans, hockey, baseball, horse racing fans sent a torrent of letters our way. Listeners also asked for plenty of the old Irish and Scotch music and old time fiddling.

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