Walt
Rutherford
CJCA
News Director
CKWX Vancouver 1970-1980; retired on
"I am quite
enjoying working with Walt Rutherford, who I am gradually discovering is quite
an ol' guy with a real soft streak to him. And he has
a great smooth and deep throated way of reading the news." As I was
telling you CJAZ is supremely disorganized and this week (my first one) has
been a real "well just speak into the microphone and see what
happens" week.
(Barb Whiting
1980)
Barb Whiting got
to the middle of that first week at CJAZ – the new jazz station WX was trying
out and found it was Walt Rutherford and her as a Team. He had his started more
than 35 years before in Edmonton
I don’t have a specific story about Walt…just impressions of working with him
which was primarily one big laugh, or, if while on-air co-hosting with him,
attempting to stifle laughter caused by Walt’s lethal sense of humour. He was the most impressive wise-cracker I have ever
known.
Dry, dry, dry humour. He
could keep the most serious of faces and then stab you with a zinger that would
have you rolling on the floor – usually at the most inappropriate of times.
Walt was, above all, a kid at heart, who loved the microphone but more than
anything, loved his wife and his home life.
(Barb Whiting 2004)
All three of his sons Dave, Doug and Don have dabbled in radio. One is a
successful businessman in
Walt died
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