New Podcast Posting: Don Messer’s Jubilee
Don Messer would have been 100 this year.
To those not from Canada or too young to remember, Don Messer may not mean much. But in his time and place Don Messer was the real deal.
Across the country, tens of thousands sat by their radios three times a week, 1939-58, listening to ‘Don Messer and His Islanders’ broadcast from Charlottetown, PEI on CBC Radio. With the advent of television, Messer moved seamlessly across to the new medium, bringing his audience with him. Thousands more watched ‘Don Messer’s Jubilee’ weekly, 1956-69, produced by CBC Television in Halifax, NS. When the program was cancelled, there was a national uproar; thirty-five years later, some people miss it still.
We speak with Tony Bull from New Brunswick, where they are remembering Don Messer – the man and his legacy this Summer.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com
To those not from Canada or too young to remember, Don Messer may not mean much. But in his time and place Don Messer was the real deal.
Across the country, tens of thousands sat by their radios three times a week, 1939-58, listening to ‘Don Messer and His Islanders’ broadcast from Charlottetown, PEI on CBC Radio. With the advent of television, Messer moved seamlessly across to the new medium, bringing his audience with him. Thousands more watched ‘Don Messer’s Jubilee’ weekly, 1956-69, produced by CBC Television in Halifax, NS. When the program was cancelled, there was a national uproar; thirty-five years later, some people miss it still.
We speak with Tony Bull from New Brunswick, where they are remembering Don Messer – the man and his legacy this Summer.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com
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