CKLG UNIQUE ON COAST
Music and Polls Top Fare From North Shore Station
Music – middle of the road, popular and classical – and public opinion polls will make Vancouver’s newest radio station, CKLG, unique on the coast.
Bob Bowman, manager of the station which goes on the air Thursday, has drawn up his program schedule in “blocks” instead of standard 15 minute pieces.
From opening at 6 a.m. until 9 a.m., “The Lions’ Den” will be broadcast over the 1,000-watt voice of the North Shore, 1070 kilocycles. “The Lions Den” will be composed of news and music.
Then, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., request music will be interspersed with news broadcasts and public opinion polls.
“We’ll ask a question on a topical subject and during the day will broadcast the public’s opinion on it as shown by telephoned responses to the station,” Bowman said.
No also promised “no extremes” in music.
“There will be no blaring trumpets or soggy ballads,” Bowman said. “We’ll feature familiar tunes and current hit parade favorites.”
And every night too, from 9:05 to 10 p.m., the station will broadcast its symphonic concert hour.
CKLG – LG for Lions Gate – opens its $250,000 one-floor building after nine years of effort.
First application for a license was rejected in 1946. Since then, the management has kept plugging until the license was finally granted last May.
Originally scheduled to go on the air in early December, it was plagued by technical troubles which constantly kept deferring opening date.
Now everything is cleared up, says Bowman, a veteran broadcaster who started out as a newspaperman, and the transmitters at the foot of Mount Seymour on Keith Road are all set to give Greater Vancouver and especially the North Shore its fifth radio station.
That transmitter, wholly automatic and fully controlled from the broadcasting studios, is not the only modern thing about the new station, either.
Bowman describes it as a high-fidelity radio station, with 15,000 cycle turntables and pick-up arms.
Small, thin television microphones are standard equipment at the new studio.
Many of the station’s staff are already familiar figures at the coast.
There’s footballer Al Stoddard, the sports director. Rudy Hartman, the program manager, who started at CJAT in Trail in 1939.
Glen Jamieson, son of a long-time Vancouver music critic, is an announcer.
Hal Francis, Peter Kosick and John Sharpe, the news editor, are also well-known city radio personalities.
- Vancouver Sun, Feb. 2, 1955

PENCIL MICROPHONES
CKLG is High Fidelity Outfit
Radio station CKLG’s North Vancouver home is a $250,000 structure located on Eleventh, just east of Lonsdale.
Designed by Harry Barratt, it is a former B.C. Telephone building which has been completely rebuilt and redesigned.
The outlet is a high-fidelity station. Announcers will be using the newest type “pencil” microphones made so popular by TV broadcasters.
All studios feature a “cough button” to help the announcers. A quick touch of the button puts the station completely off the air, if needed.
The station also features an automatic transmitter which can be completely controlled from the studios by the operator-announcers.
CKLG is going to be the most unusual station in Canada, according to Bob Bowman. The public opinion poll is an outstanding example.
Every day CKLG will ask listeners to vote on some current issue, such as the selling of beer in grocery stores, or legalizing lottery tickets in B.C. Voting will take place by telephone from 9:15 to 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
A special battery of telephones has been installed to handle the calls and a special telephone number YO 7171 is being employed.
Results of the public opinion poll will be announced every fifteen minutes throughout the day, as tabulating the voting progresses.

Housewives Help Each Other in New Program
There’s no need to be plagued by household problems, if you listen to CKLG’s program “What’s the Answer,” to be broadcast daily from 11:05-12:00 noon. {article goes on to say housewives can call Bob Bowman with problems and await solutions from other listeners}.
- Vancouver Province, Wed. Feb. 2, 1955