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So far, Whit Fraser is the only CFYK staff member I've been able to remember, by name. I remember all the other people who were there, but their names have escaped me after 30 years.
Whit was a News reporter at CFYK Radio. Two years later, he was featured on Sunday Magazine, aired nationally on the CBC AM network. He was still at CFYK and that broadcast is featured on the CBC Web site's audio archive:
Not many years later, he could seen on The National, CBC-TV's nightly News. Here are a few samples on the CBC's Web site, complete with video clips:
Charles M. left for a promotion and CBC Inuvik, just as I was arriving at CFYK. His wife worked a floor or two above me at the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT, my day job). I still cannot remember their last name.
GNWT Computing people are listed on the GNWT page.
Other than management, all CBC radio staff was unionized. Roles were defined, but it depended where you worked. At major radio stations, NABET members operated and maintained the equipment, announcers were in ACTRA, and News staff were in the Wire Service Guild of Canada.
At smaller stations, such as CFPR in Prince Rupert, B.C., NABET members announced and operated. News was fed from the major station in the region. NABET members were not allowed to read News or even write News copy for the major station.
North of 60, the Northern Service of the CBC had Wire Service Guild members writing the News. NABET members read Newscasts, announced and operated, but could not write News stories, even in emergencies.
Jon Pearkins
August 01, 2004