Thursday 1 December 2011

A look at the birth of CHEK

On November 24, 2011 CHEK-TV, Victoria lost one of their original personalities. Andy Stephen had been the original news anchor for the station in 1954 and would have a long career not only with CHEK-TV but with CHAN-TV as the BCTV network was formed in the early sixties. Stephen was one the fortunate personalities to come in when television was new and the rules had to be established. One of his students Bruce Killpatrick gave this retrospective on Stephen and an insight into the early days of CHEK and the coverage of the BC Legislature.

http://youtu.be/0ZGDA8MDScE

For a station that was minutes away from going dark just a couple of years ago it's great that they are still around to share history like this.