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In 1962, Hall moved to Toronto to take up a job covering sports with CHUM, but moved back to Edmonton 3 years later, this time, back to CJCA, where he did play-by-play for the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos with the network from 1965 to 1993. During his time with CJCA, he also pioneered the first open-line sports talk radio show in Edmonton. [5]
CHQT was an AM radio station in Edmonton, Alberta.Owned by Corus Entertainment, the station first launched in August 1965.In June 2008, after having broadcast various music-based formats, CHQT flipped to an all-news format as a counterpart to sister news/talk station CHED.
According to the 1976 B.B.M. Weekly Reach survey, CFRN was the 4th-most-listened-to radio station in Edmonton. [ 19 ] The CFRN stations were sold in 1988 to Kitchener, Ontario -based Electrohome Limited for $51.2 million; [ 20 ] a 91-year-old Rice rejected offers from several western groups and selected Electrohome as the purchaser. [ 21 ]
The 1990 Edmonton Eskimos finished in second place in the West Division with a 10–8 record. The club attempted to win their 11th Grey Cup championship, but lost the Grey Cup game 50-11 to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Edmonton was founded in 1949, although other teams named the Edmonton Eskimos existed 1895 to 1923 and 1929 to 1939. The Edmonton Elks are the most successful CFL franchise of the modern era (1949–present), having won the league's Grey Cup fourteen times (As the Eskimos), including an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and ...
Wruck spent two seasons in the Saskatchewan Roughriders' training camps before being traded to the Edmonton Eskimos at the start of the 1985 CFL season. Between 1985 and 1996 Wruck played 213 games and recorded a total of 667 tackles, 32 sacks, 15 interceptions, and 19 fumble recoveries. [1] He appeared in five Grey Cup games, winning in 1987 ...
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Eric Thomas Upton (April 29, 1953 – May 23, 2024) was a Canadian professional football player who was an offensive lineman for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was named a CFL Western All-Star in 1979 and was a part of five Grey Cup championship teams with the Eskimos.