CKX-TV MEMORY NOTES
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* Our involvement back to the mid-50s, 1962 and beyond

* Strathclair Electric shop -- crowds on street window viewing 1 channel: Honeymooners, Wrestling ~ Local Stars: Roy Brown, Gurr Carnahan

* Daily Live Noon Shows: 1962 College classmate Barry Forman and I put together a "New Country Gentlemen"

* Barry and I mimed a 16mm video playing music while walking into the waters behind the Rivers dam

* November 22, 1963 Kennedy assassination interrupted the show

* 1st Video B/W Tape Recordings -- record to play endless reruns (later colour Sony 3/4 U-Matic cassette)

* Fair Remotes: Dome building -- later a stage . . . later used by folk festival

* Weekly Co-Op Neighbour Nite shows . . . after to Co-op towns: Thor and Woodmass

* Taped Weekly shows welcomed..

* Sue-On Wedding 1966 -- later joined -- name change: Western Union ~ Then Hillman Express ~ Hillmans from Canada

* 1970 Western Union Album #1 ~ CKX-TV Camera Photo

* 1st CKX-TV Colour Show

* 1st ALL-Mime Show ~ Album 7 Newcastle

* 90s Hillman CBC-TV special : Coleman & Co network - view and tape in studio

* Special Western Union backing Russ Gurr coinciding with our Canada tours.

* Live Remotes & Interviews - Car Shows ~ Business openings ~  Discuss OTR

* Sue-On Japanese Car Commercial

* Jocks played our albums over after hours test patterns -- ratings sweeps royalties

* Radio play -- Call in show playing our music with Gordy Carnahan -- interviews  remotes

* Bill Hosted Promo shows for Call of the Wild Boggy Creek Festival before Greeting Princess Anne

* CKX went dark on October 2, 2009 ~ Fondly remembered ~ Major loss to community