Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of January 15,
2006
Weekly issue #360
Talent: DAVE SMITH
Station: CKOC Hamilton, Ont.
Date: March 8, 1979
Time: 3:20
Logo donated by Mark Sorensen from the Nevin Grant Collection
Dave Smith originally planned to become a veterinarian, but he wound up
becoming a vet of a different kind - a radio veteran.
Smith told Heather MacKay Roberts at StandardbredCanada.ca that he used to hang out with a friend who worked at a radio station, and would fill in now and then doing headlines or sports while his friend took a break. Eventually he took the job as morning show host and put his plans to become a veterinarian on permanent hold. A radio career was born.
The personable, entertaining Smith did stints at southern Ontario stations in Burlington, Barrie and Kitchener. But he is perhaps best remembered for his days in afternoon drive at Hamilton's CKOC during the '70s and '80s.
Hear Dave Smith on CKOC here.
(The Bill Dulmage Collection)
Talent: DAVE SMITH
Station: CKOC Hamilton, Ont.
Date: April 30, 1980
Time: 4:39
Logo donated by Mark Sorensen from the Nevin Grant Collection
Dave Smith was into his second decade as CKOC's afternoon driver in 1980, part of a lineup that included Jason Roberts (mornings), Con Stevenson (late-morning talk), John Novak (middays), Scott Harris and Dale Parker (evenings), and Bob Steele (all night).
Hear Smith on CKOC here.
(The Bill Dulmage Collection)