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l-r Karl Krug, John Strong, John Langridge, Johnny Brent and Margaret Brophy - TV program staff
1950-1970
CKNX Television & Radio station, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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John Strong ...

"One of easiest ways to get into an argument with John is to start a discussion on the merits of Canada's three Armed Services. He served in the Navy, though he did spend 4 years in R.C.N. on the beach with the radar and special wireless branch. " (CKNX publication)

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Ross Hamilton, as weatherman for Channel 8 News.
1955
CKNX-TV studios, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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Ross Hamilton ...

In 1942, when Ross graduated from Wingham High School, he stepped into a full-time job with CKNX. Other than a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Force (Aircrew), he has been with CKNX as script writer, operator, announcer, newsman and sportscaster. He is familiar with almost every department. This 6' 4", 200 lb man was appointed to the sales department in 1949. Ross was born Friday, July 13, 1925 and is married to the former Lois Whitney of Seaforth, who was once a receptionist at CKNX. He is interested in community work and gives a lot of his spare hours to Kinsmen projects. (25th Anniversary, 1951)

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Jack Gorbutt was the Public Relations man for the Barn Dance program as well as other CKNX programs.
1937-1963
920 CKNX, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
Barn Dance Museum, Wingham, Ontario
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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Jack Gorbutt ...

Jack Gorbutt married his wife, Lillian in May 1943. She continued to work as a stenographer at CKNX while Jack served overseas in World War II.

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Iona Terry was the station music librarian as well as an announcer on CKNX radio.
1940-1970
CKNX Radio and Television, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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Iona Terry ...

Iona was a teacher for 3 years, spent 1 year at CKNX, 27 months in the Navy and returned to CKNX to take up her present position. (25th Anniversary, 1951)

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John Langridge joined CKNX as a control room operator in 1949. He became program director mid 60s.
1949-1960s
CKNX Radio and Television, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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John Langridge ...

Here is a well-travelled young man! John was born in London, England in 1920 and prior to joining the army as a radio operator in 1940, worked in one of England's largest printing and publishing firms. John has been to South Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine and Iraq, and was an enforced visitor in Lybia, Italy and Germany for three years as a prisoner of war. He returned home for a few months after the war and then went back to Germany and Belgium. Back in England again, still with the desire to travel, he married and brought his wife Joyce to Canada. He joined CKNX as a control room operator in March 1949.

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Earl Heywood's Serenade Ranch program was a popular locally-produced musical program on CKNX.
1955-1980
CKNX-TV studios, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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Earl Heywood ...

Earl landed in the army in January 1941. According to Earl, "This is where I made up my mind that I was going to do something with the talent I had. I had written a song called 'Living in the Army'. I used to sing it with some of my buddies in our hut. Everyone got a big kick out of it. There was a poster up in the hut which announced an amateur contest in the camp. You had to register over at the canteen. Somehow I just never bothered signing up. The night the event was to take place, I was writing a letter home to my Mom. I went over to the canteen to post it. The show was going on, the Colonel was up on the stage and everyone was clapping and having one heck of a time. I guess I hadn't registered for the contest because I thought that there would be guys in the show who were real professionals. I figured they'd just laugh at the song I would sing. One of the guys saw me and proceeded to ask the Colonel if there was any possibility of me getting on the show. He agreed. I didn't sing the one they all wanted to hear, I sang a popular tune of the time called 'You're the Only Star in my Blue Heaven' by Gene Autry. It brought the house down, but that wasn't the end of it. The guys all began to yelp and yell for me to sing the one I made up about living in the army. Let me tell you, the words I'd written weren't exactly fit to be published. I sang it anyway and received a standing ovation. The Colonel immediately announced me as the winner of the contest."

The Chatham newspaper ran the story and proclaimed Earl's song as the official camp marching song. (C-3,1975)p.1 At about the same time CFCO in Chatham gave Earl his first chance at radio. They wanted to use his 'Living in the Army' as the theme song of a broadcast from the army camp. After he had cleaned the lyrics up a bit, it was ready to broadcast.

"That was the very thing that made me realize that I was able to write songs. I'd actually written one and people were loving it. I felt tremendous and immediately went down to the RCA Victor recording studios to get a contract. Needless to say, they turned me down and told me to come back when I had more experience."(C-3,1975)p.1

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l-r Karl Krug, John Strong, John Langridge, Johnny Brent and Margaret Brophy - TV program staff
1950-1970
CKNX Television & Radio station, Wingham, Ontario

Credits:
North Huron Museum, Wingham, Ontario

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Karl Krug ...

During World War II, Karl Krug by-passed the Chaplaincy for a job in Canadian army intelligence office with the joint chiefs of staff in Washington. After the war, plain "Karl" Krug-as he likes to be known in the radio-TV world- did a stint at Ottawa in the service of the government; When his health began to slip, he moved to tiny Chesley, Ontario and talked nearby CKNX into letting him conduct a daily, off-the-cuff news analysis programme over its airwaves. With his experience in wartime Washington to back him up, Krug's two o'clock-in-the-afternoon programme became a local hit - despite the hour. Later, he became the programme director of Sing Time. (O-1, 1958) p15.