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local radio broadcasting experience under his “I didn’t hesitate to say yes to Wayne,” which players seemed to be the ones to watch wouldn’t mind bringing back to the airwaves
belt at the time, and was managing a car rental, says Gibeau. “I didn’t have any broadcast that week because it went it cycles and really again. When asked separately about about
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Rogers Cable 11 TV program to be the Royals it all felt really natural.” Not surprisingly, both Gibeau and Thompson “Absolutely!”
Despite that lack of on-air experience, list the Royals playoff games as highlights of
Gibeau, who now works for Benson their careers. “Those games, especially those
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embarrassing moments, the likes of which the best games ever. The all star game was

now flood the Internet. “When we were first fabulous as well,” says Thompson, ‘It was just
broadcasting out of the Si Miller Arena we great to be part of it.”
were actually broadcasting from right in the The colour commentary guy adds his own
crowd. We could never be really sure of what shadings, “Watching players like Chad Kilger,
would come out of the fans’ mouths and get develop and progress over the years and some
picked up by our mics,” laughs Gibeau. of them go on and play professional hockey,

As for technical gaffes, they too were that’s definitely a highlight.” On a personal
few and far between, thanks to the expertise note, Gibeau recalls being able to bring his
of the cable station’s technical staff. “There then young son down to the dressing room
were times where we had issues with some of during the junior allstar games, to meet Eric
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