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AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of September 2, 2007
Weekly issue #443

Talent: JIM BRADY with JOHN HINNEN
Station: CFTR Toronto
Date: September 1, 1980
Time: 7:31

Ah, for the days of full-service radio!
Courtesy: Bill Dulmage (Larger view here.)

Jim Brady says if you find something you love you are blessed, and if you can get someone to pay you for it you are doubly blessed.

His listeners then must be triply blessed as they have enjoyed Brady's talents on the air for some four decades. A natural performer, Brady has worked in many markets and formats over the years. But he's perhaps best known for the eight years he spent hosting the morning show at Toronto's CFTR, from 1973 to 1981.

Brady didn't do the show alone, of course. Back then, most AM Top 40 stations were full-service, with a fully-staffed newsroom that included, yes, a full-time sportscaster. In this aircheck, you'll hear a complete  sportscast with John Hinnen (pictured above at extreme right), who would later become a top executive at Rogers Broadcasting.

Enjoy Jim Brady and John Hinnen here.

(The Richard Fleming Collection)

This aircheck is archived here.

Talent: GARY BELL
Station: CFTR Toronto
Date: August, 1979
Time: 1:57

We know "Spaceman" Gary Bell as a controversial talk show host, whose show "The View From Space" has appeared on AM 640 Toronto. But from the late '70s into the early '90s he was a jock at CFTR, mostly in late-night or all-night shifts. Previous to CFTR, Bell was at CKGM Montreal.

Enjoy a short clip of Gary Bell on CFTR here.

(The Bill Dulmage Collection)

This aircheck is archived here.

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