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Wayne Thompson
one in Glen Walter which still exists
today as an Esso station.”
Rogers, (prior to Cogeco), was
covering the Cornwall Royals games
By Jim Riddell at the time, but were using radio
broadcast as a simulcast. CJSS was
ayne Thompson arrived in picking up the broadcast, but there
WCornwall in 1983 when he were “dead air” moments when they
landed the “Afternoon Drive” job went to commercials. Station manager
on CJSS. He was on the air Monday Calvin Killorn approached Wayne
through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. and asking if he would be interested
was also doing Saturday mornings
in doing the live broadcast of the
from 6 a.m. until noon. Three
Royals games. “Calvin wanted his
years later Wayne moved into a
own broadcast team, knew that I had
management position in the gasoline broadcasting experience and a hockey
and automotive industry with Olco background, and that’s when he
Petroleum. “We had three locations in approached me for his play-by-play
Cornwall,” Wayne recalled. “One on announcer,” Wayne recalled. In 1971, Wayne with Mike Bossy at the MS golf tournament. Wayne was the
Brookdale where Pizza Hut is now, as an underage Center/LW, Wayne was co MC at the event and Bossy was there as the celebrity guest. The
another on Montreal Rd. across from a member of the Town of Mount Royal two had played against each other in the Metropolitan Junior Hockey
League, Bossy with Laval and Wayne with the Mount Royal Eagles.
St. Lawrence College, and the third
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