Bill Reiter
Bill
Reiter - CKLG-FM Vancouver 1967; briefly Boss Jock CKLG Vancouver; progressive
AOR overnight show Collage CKVN Vancouver 1970; Dr. Bundolo's
Pandemonium Medicine Show CBC Radio Vancouver 1971-75; jazz/blues show Groovin' Blue CKST
Vancouver 1993; CJVB Vancouver 1995-97; CHMB Vancouver 1999 on; prominent stage
& film actor; has voiced over 4500 radio spots and 300 TV commercials;
writer/producer nearly 1000 radio/TV commercials; writer/producer &
radio/TV voice Chips With Gravy Productions (1984) Ltd. current; columnist Real
Blues Magazine Victoria current
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CFUN
- return to Top 40 with call letters now CKVN (1970)
Weekends
- BREN TRAFF, BILL REITER
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Meanwhile,
the Muzak-inspired Foreground Sound moved to CKLG-FM,
still unable to compete against CHQM's dominance in
that format. In 1967, LG-FM tested the appeal of an Underground format with a
weekly program of New World African music, as host Bill Reiter likes to call
it. Groovin' Blue expanded to daily and, by early
1968, the station hired John Runge from CKUA Edmonton as Music Director and went Underground full-time. They explored the full range of the
format, even playing some classical, but eventually settled into progressive
rock -- popular cuts from popular rock LPs -- before self-destructing in the
mid-'70s in a failed unionization attempt. Their focus and call letters changed
to CFOX shortly after.
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Krazy House
Wed
Executive
producer Alan Ehrlich collected half-hour pilots for six comedy programs and
aired them in this series. The first two, written by John Morgan, Dave Broadfoot, Roger Abbott, and Don Ferguson, and directed by
George Bloomfield, essentially gathered the resources of the popular CBC radio
troupe, the Royal Canadian Air Farce. They starred performers well known to CBC
viewers--Billy Van, Bonnie Brooks, Dave Broadfoot--and to
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CKNW
Radio’s Norm Grohmann joined the cast of CBC Radio’s
Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show, replacing
Steve Woodman. Other cast members at this time included Marla Gropper, Bill Buck and Bill Reiter. Bundolo
was produced by Don Kowalchuk, written by Jeffrey Groberman and Dan Thatchuk (now
Colin Yardley) and ran from 1972 to 1980.
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The
insanely surreal CBC radio program Dr. Bundolo's
Pandemonium Medicine Show began. Taped before university students, who revelled in its irreverent and raunchy humor, it would last
to 1980, then move to CBC-TV for two seasons. The show
was produced by Don Kowalchuk, and written by Jeffrey
Groberman and Dan Thatchuk
(the latter now known as Colin Yardley). Stars included such folk as Bill
Reiter, Norm Grohman, Marla Gropper
and Bill Buck.
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Bill
Reiter voiced Frederick Hende, the last host of
Nightfall, a radio drama series from
Nightfall
was a supernatural/horror radio series produced by the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) from 1980 to 1983. It was disturbing enough to promp numerious listener
complaints and cause some CBC affiliates to drop it.
The
30 minute show had a run of 100 episodes, three-quarters of which were produced
in
The
host for the firs two seasons was Luther Kranst
(Henry Ramer). Ramer is a well known Canadian actor. The third season host was
Frederick Hende (Bill Reiter). Reiter is a popular
Canadian DJ. The Executive Producer, Director and series creator was Bill
Howell. Don Kowalchuk replaced Howell in the third
season when production was moved to
The
stories were by both first-time, and veteran, radio
and stage writers. Some of these include Tim Wynne-Jones, Max Ferguson,
Laurence Gough, Arthur Samuels, Nika Rylski, Warren Graves, Paul Bettis,
and Silver Donald Cameron. The series was played in the
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Grohmann thrived in an age of personality radio. He
was able to find humour in the strangest places and
created many different characters when appearing on the Frosty Forst morning show. At one point in his career, he joined
the cast of the CBC radio series Doctor Bundolo's
Pandemonium Medicine Show, replacing Steve Woodman. This 1974 network show
originated in