Showing posts with label CKNW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CKNW. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

some 1950s Digney ads


Jack Cullen (not "Cullin") was the big deejay back then. I did get a message from him a few years back about Digney Speedway. Seems like he thought it was fun times and a good era.




This final race was rained out. Results were hard to come by even when it didn't rain.

Monday, September 29, 2008

racin' on the radio



Once in a while I'll catch the MRN (Motor Racing Network?) covering a NASCAR race live. That usually means I'm not at home (well, duh!) and in my car (well, double duh!).

Back around 1953 local Top Dog! station, CKNW, did some broadcasts from Digney Speedway. Sportscaster Jim Cox did a delayed show featuring interviews and race coverage. I've never heard any of them, even asked the late great deejay Jack Cullen once about anything being saved and he said not that he was aware of. But I keep hoping. (I've heard a race from Langford Speedway in Victoria that was broadcast back in the late 1940s. The race was "taped" onto an acetate disc live and then quickly run over to the radio station in Victoria for a delayed show that the racers could hear and then bench race all over again.)