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For many years the CJCA broadcast studios were located on the 4th floor of the Birks building in downtown Edmonton. On top of the Birks building was a huge billboard of a tiger wearing sunglasses—CJCA was also known as Tiger Radio. CJCA was also home for the Edmonton Eskimos and Edmonton Trappers. Their games were broadcast live on CJCA for ...
Rod Phillips (born September 9, 1941) is a retired Canadian radio broadcaster for 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta.Phillips is best known as the play-by-play man of the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers from 1973 to 2011, succeeding longtime Edmonton Eskimos broadcaster Bryan Hall despite having no experience in the field.
The broadcast was carried by CKCK Radio in Regina, Saskatchewan. The game, held at Exhibition Park in Regina between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos, was a meeting of two Western Canada Hockey League teams. Edmonton beat Regina, 1–0. This broadcast was officially recognized by Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1972.
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.
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 42nd Grey Cup football game was played on November 27, 1954, before a full house (27,321 in attendance) at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]The underdog Edmonton Eskimos won a contest over the Montreal Alouettes 26–25.
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First radio play-by-play broadcast of a Grey Cup Game was on December 1. ... Edmonton Eskimos no game BCRFU UBC no game Grey Cup Championship. December 1