Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of July 13, 2014
Edition #792

Talent: BILLY GORRIE
Station: CKRC Winnipeg
Date: May 16, 1972
Time: 30:54 (unscoped)

Remember the famous commercial where Victor Kiam said of Remington Rand, "I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company"? Well, something like that happened to Billy Gorrie.

Gorrie, heard here doing the evening shift on 'RC, liked the station so much he bought it. Gorrie became general manager of CKRC and CKWG-FM in 1985 and a decade later he and Terry O'Rourke purchased the station and moved it to FM as Magic 99.9. Standard Radio assumed 100 per cent control of the station in 1998 and it wound up in the hands of CHUM Limited in 2002. As for Gorrie, he took his own life in 2011 and wrote his own obituary.

Enjoy Billy Gorrie on CKRC here.

(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)

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