Wayne Cox
CKCQ Quesnel 1968,
CHNL Kamloops 1969, PM Drive CKNW 1970-75, host CKVU-TV Vancouver Show; CJOR
Vancouver circa 1988; hosted syndicated TV game show 2nd Honeymoon; Global TV
Vancouver weatherman current
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Wayne Cox has been a
broadcaster since 1968. He started out as a disc jockey and radio talk show
host in Quesnel,
Wayne's hosted a
number of television shows, Vancouver Live, Variety Tonight, T.G.I.F. and
Newsmakers.
Wayne has also
hosted a number of syndicated T.V. games shows including Acting Crazy, 2nd
Honeymoon, and Talkabout.
He's worked on television
projects in
A long time resident
of the South Surrey/White Rock area,
When he's not
working,
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1970
Wayne Cox, of BCTV Weather, starts at CKNW
doing the afternoon drive show. "Wayne Cox and Friends" lasts for
five years.
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1990
Legal Wise is Back
The second season of
Legal Wise premiered on CBC Television on October 13, introducing viewers to
broadcaster Wayne Cox, this year’s co-host alongside lawyer Lisa Nemetz.
And there are other
new faces at Legal Wise. Reporters Joanna Piros, George Orr and Mark Daily have
also come on board to develop the program’s feature stories.
The premier episode
offered reports on securities law and the legal aspects of gold panning, as
well as column spots on credit card insurance, manufacturing a
"look-alike," and Latin legalese.
Upcoming episodes of
Legal Wise on CBC and the Knowledge Network include:
October 27
(CBC)/November 2 (Knowledge): Plea Bargaining; Brother XII; limitation periods;
pleading "not guilty;" affidavits.
November 3
(CBC)/November 9 (Knowledge): Forensic investigation; privacy law; grey areas
of the law; wills; slip and fall in a store.
November 10
(CBC)/November 16 (Knowledge): Native rights; custody, access and guardianship;
"Bunjee jumping;" charging a husband with assault; annulment of an
arranged marriage.
November 17
(CBC)/November 23 (Knowledge): Ownership of art; young offenders; getting hit
by a golf ball; cycling.
Both the Legal Wise
producers and the Law Society Communications Committee would like to thank all
the lawyers who have contributed to the show so far. They would also like to
encourage others in the profession, if they are contacted for an interview
respecting their area of practice, to lend support as a commitment to public
legal education.
Because Legal Wise
stories hit home through the experiences of people who been participants the
legal system, you may be asked to contact a client to see if he or she would be
interested in appearing on the program as well.
Your suggestions and
topic ideas are welcomed by Producer Nijole Kuzmickas and Associate Producer
Judy White. Feel free to send them your suggestions at Legal Wise, c/o CBC
Television,
And at Alexander,
Holburn ...
Once each month the
28th floor of the Vancouver law firm Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang is
alive with lights, cameras, and the creative energy of production staff and
C.B.C. technical crew ready to pull together new episodes of Legal Wise.
The firm’s boardroom
has served as a studio site for Legal Wise since lawyer Lisa Nemetz and her
co-host Fred Cawsey first reached viewers on CBC Television and the Knowledge
Network last Fall. While the site is the same this year, the look is somewhat
different. Vancouver broadcaster Wayne Cox, sporting his own unique style, joins
Lisa Nemetz as a new co-host for the 1990-91 season, on a modified set with an
even more comfortable ambiance.
Since the Legal Wise
set backs out on a reception area, Alexander, Holburn has been sensitive about
preserving client confidentiality. Clients are issued a memo about the show on
filming dates so that, if they could be even partially visible in the backdrop
and do not wish to be, they need only tell the receptionist.
Alexander, Holburn notes
that it is proud to contribute the use of its office to the program "which
the firm hopes will assist in educating the public about how the legal system
works."
Clients have
expressed curiousity and interest in the production of Legal Wise, says partner
David Gooderham.
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Prior to "Talk
About", host Wayne Cox had emceed another Canadian-exported game show,
"2nd Honeymoon", which aired on CBN Cable in 1987-88. He later went
on to host the long-running (1991-98) Canadian charades game "Acting Crazy"
and is now a weatherman for
Although the last
first-run episode (which saw
Three years after
its cancellation,
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Feb 27, 1990
The Vancouver Sun
TWO YEARS ago, Wayne
Cox and Jennifer Lyall starred on CKVU as hosts of TGIF, a weekly entertainment
magazine. As of last weekend, they're together again on CBC, starring as hosts
of Variety Tonight (Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. on Ch. 2), another weekly
entertainment magazine.
There are different
producers and a different approach to the magazine format, CBC's being more
studio-bound (at leasts as far as the hosts are concerned) and superficial.
The word superficial
might seem like overkill, considering that this is just another entertainment
magazine. But this program makes After Hours and Entertainment Tonight look
like heavy hitters in the industry. There were 12 segments in the half-hour
premiere program, most of them running about two minutes. Count them yourself:
Interview with Billy
(Piano Man) Joel; Interview with Bob (Gilligan) Denver; Interview with Jim
(Wiseguy) Byrnes; Interview with Megan (Anne of Green Gables) Follows; New
video releases and top rentals; Feature on Jukeboxes; Report on Grammy Awards;
Interview with Alannah Myles; Top CDs; Top five movies; Interview with Tom
Jones; Interview with Sean Connery; plus a rundown of next week's items (Rob
Lowe and Jay Leno).
Cox told us that
Lyall flew to Los Angeles for the interview with Connery, but it hardly seemed
worth the trip considering they gave him only a couple of minutes to answer
four questions. After the interview there was this exchange:
Cox: "That
looks exciting. Good movie?"
Lyall: "It is
exciting. Big Paramount release."
Cox: "Don't
wanna miss that."
Is this worthwhile
consumer information for CBC viewers, considering the price of a night out at
the movies these days?
Executive producer
Robin Winskell said Monday that she and partners Paul Winskell and Gerry O'Day
are considering a "critic's corner" for future episodes.
Their company,
Waterfront Video Productions, is co-producing this program with the B.C. region
of CBC. Six pilot episodes have been picked up in Kelowna, Kamloops, Calgary
and Edmonton.
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August 12, 1987
Denny Boyd Vancouver
Sun
Wayne Cox's genial
disposition is paying off in as much work as he can handle. Monday morning at
8:30, he becomes the newest host of CJOR's morning talk show and he plans to
give a non-political thrust to a program that has preached everything short of
Fabianism. Cox, with the backing of general manager George Madden, plans to
concentrate on lifestyles, entertainment, the arts and local news.
Additionally, Cox,
who spent 7 1/2 years as a newsman and co-anchor of CKVU's Vancouver Show, is
the host of Second Honeymoon, a new quiz show - based broadly on The Newlywed
Game - that will be produced at BCTV to run in prime time daily on the U.S. pay
cable network, CBN. Taping begins in September under producer Wink Martendale,
with five shows being taped each week.
As Cox prepares to
return to radio next week, Earle Bradford left it this week. The gossipy town
crier of Earle's Court on CKNW the past 14 years, Bradford resigned for health
reasons Monday afternoon. It's the cancer.