Patt McDonald
Frank Walden, CKNW corporate
board member is quoted as saying: Patt McDonald was a person of great
inactivity. “I never caught him doing anything….except file his nails.” He was hired in 1954 and didn’t last out the
year.
McDonald was fired but in that
departure – McDonald took Jack Cullen and a dozen other staff to CKMO.
Bill Hughes called McDonald a
charming guy who lured them away. To be fair, McDonald was hired by Rea because
of his TV experience and Rea wanted to get in the TV business desperately. That
interest almost killed the NW owner and led to a physical and mental breakdown
and to the ultimate sale of the station to Frank Griffith and his partners.
Patt McDonald went to CKMO
convinced the new owners to call it C-FUN but left for stateside shortly after.