Bill Good on the road in
Bill Good - CHTK Prince Rupert
1965-66; CFAX Victoria 1966-67; sports and Vancouver host Hockey Night in
Canada CBC Vancouver 1967-78; evening news anchor CBUT Vancouver 1978-88; talk
show host CKNW Vancouver 1988-current; news anchor BCTV Vancouver 1993-2001;
co-anchor CTV News at Six CTV British Columbia Vancouver 2001-current; British
Columbia Association of Broadcasters Broadcaster of the Year 2003
Born
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CBC television news anchorman Bill Good
Jr. is moving to CKNW radio as afternoon talkshow host and longtime 'NW talker
Gary Bannerman is leaving the station.
The 42-year old co-anchor of CBC Vancouver's
Evening News revealed Wednesday he will join radio station 'NW Sept. 12.
Good will replace former Social Credit
cabinet minister Rafe Mair on the 12:30 to 3 p.m. time slot with Mair moving to
the 9 a.m. to the noon show, replacing Bannerman, who is currently on extended
sick leave.
CKNW promotions director John Plul said
last night that the station had decided not to renew Bannerman's contract,
which expires Aug. 31, because of "irreconcilable differences".
Good has been with the CBC for 21
years, beginning with the radio division where he hosted a morning show. He
moved to television 15 years ago as a sports commentator, joined the news
division and has anchored the evening news for 11 years, most recently with
co-anchor Cecilia Walters.
His father, Bill Good Sr., was a
nationally-known sports reporter with CBC radio and his brother, John Good,
worked for CBC Sports in
Bill Good Jr. said negotiations between
himself, his agent Norm McKinnon and CKNW program director Doug Rutherford,
were prolonged and bizarre.
"All three of us were on vacation,
me on
"As a result, none of us really
had a vacation. But we came up with a three-year contract plus an option and
I'm pleased with it.
"My only regret about leaving the
corporation is that I won't get the chance to work with the show's incoming
executive producer, Jim Peters. Ironically, he takes over the day I start at
'NW. But it's time for me to do something else."
CKNW general manager Ron Bremner said:
"When we began scouting around, we were impressed with the job Bill did
with his out-of-studio public forums, which showed us another side of his
professionalism. We're looking for him to take us into the 90s of talkshow
broadcasting.
"Gary Bannerman did a tremendous
job for us for 15 years and we are making the change, aware that he might come
back elsewhere in direct opposition to us. We wish him good luck and good
health but sometimes changes have to be made for reasons that aren't readily
apparent.
"People will probably say
Bannerman was a CKNW legend and how could we let him go. But Wayne Gretzky was
an
Denny Boyd 1988 The Sun