Edition #1386 |
Talent: PETE N'
GEETS
Station: CFNY
Toronto
Date: February
28, 1984
Time:
15:56
Warren Downs, Geets McTavish, the Amazing Romo, F. Lee "Lie Detector" Romo.
A comedy team? Hardly. It was all the work of one man, Geets Romo - a.k.a. David Haydu - who does all of the above characters on this amazing aircheck of Pete n' Geets on CFNY.
Pete Griffin had been hosting the morning show at CHUM-FM for a couple of years when Haydu - the station's engineer - started joining him doing on-air bits in 1972. From that grew Pete n' Geets, a ground-breaking concept before the proliferation of morning teams. It was wildly popular, ending only when Romo left in 1977 to go to Q-107 where he worked with John Donabie and Ted Wolosyhn (separate occasions). He also did sales at Q.
Griffin continued solo at CHUM-FM until moving to Toronto rival CFNY, where he was reunited with Geets on-air beginning September 2, 1980 (Romo also started in engineering there the same day.) Griffin left for CFGM Richmond Hill, Ontario, in October, 1987 after Geets resigned as morning sidekick, breaking the contract for the entire morning team which also included producer Kevin O'Leary.
A technical genius, Haydu was chief engineer at CFNY from 1987 to 2001 before returning to the CHUM Radio Group as lead technician for The Team. Haydu left the CHUM Radio Group - where he had been director of engineering - in 2009 as part of a massive personnel cutback at CTV Globemedia. He went from there to the Evanov Radio Group, which he consults on engineering matters.
Haydu came to CHUM-FM as a producer in 1968 after previously working at CKFH Toronto and CHIQ (now CHAM) Hamilton, Ontario.
Hear Pete n' Geets on CFNY here. 
(The Bill Dulmage
Collection)
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