RICHEST RADIO STAR?
King Webster
Has New Dial
By PAUL CARBRAY
VANCOUVER (CP) — That shout, in a rich Scots brogue
familiar to thousands of
The voice belongs to Jack W e b s t e r , who begins
his open-line show Tuesday at
V a n c o u v e r radio station CJOR, lured by one of the richest contracts
ever offered a broadcaster in
Under the new contract, Mr. Webster receives a reported $100,000 annually, one
of the highest figures in Canadian radio, although less than that bestowed on
some of American radio's super disc jockeys.
An added bonus for masochistic radio listeners is the chance to hear Mr.
Webster's pronouncements in the morning, followed by the equally strident Pat
Burns, another master of verbal mayhem, without switching a dial.
So worried was CJOR about the lightning that could flash with two such
monstrous egos stuffed in the same studio, the station spent thousands
outfitting a special studio for Mr. Webster.
Radio station CKNW has countered with a new openline
program called The Investigators, and hired Ed Murphy, who had conducted an o p
e n - l i ne program at
CKWX, as anchor man. With him are Art Finlay, who
spent four years as backup man to Mr. W e b s t e r ,
and Terry Spence of the
Unfortunately, the story is continued on pg. 4, which I can't access (for free,
anyway). It mentions a CKWX hiring; maybe Terry Moore?