MONDAY DECEMBER 24TH 2012

Hello everyone...another CHRISTMAS EVE DAY...and it's going to be a White Christmas after all. It sure is not going to be a Christmas day like back in 1982 when there was no snow and we had a high in Barrie of +13. I can remember having our screen open on the front door. The next year however it was the opposite with a low of -25 and a high of minus 13...We had a Mild one in 1994 with a high of +5 and virtually no snow in Midland. CHRISTMAS was first celebrated in Canada in 1535 in Stadacona by Jacques Cartier and his crew...they all distributed Cartiers Diamonds. Meanwhile in 1652 the English Parliament abolished Christmas and 4 the next 8 years it was not observed. The idea came from King Scrooge the 1st. We admit it, a lot of crazy things happen in radio. But to better understand the radio industry, let's go back to where it all started. December 24, 1906 -- The father of radio, OUR Canadian genius, Reginald Fessenden, climbed a 400-foot tower in Massachusetts and transmitted music from an Edison phonograph across the Atlantic Ocean. Word came back immediately by telegraph: the broadcast was coming in loud and clear at a special receiving station in Scotland. Radio was born! Then, as Reg Fessenden, the world's foremost electronics genius, history's first radio personality, as he climbed down from that tower to the cheers of his colleagues, he got stuck. Yes, radio history buffs, stuck! You see, Reginald was a very chubby genius. His colleagues climbed up the tower to help. The pulled and pushed. He didn't budge. Well, to make a long story short, they stripped off Reginald's clothes, smeared him with axle grease, and finally slid him loose. Honest. It's a TREW story. He DID HAVE small hands THOUGH so he also introduced "WEE PAWS FOR STATION IDENTIFICATION". 1818: At St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, Austria, 31-year-old teacher and organist Franz Gruber composed a melody on guitar for a poem written by 26-year-old Josef Mohr entitled "Stille Nacht." That evening "Silent Night" was sung for the first time. IT was allegedly written for guitar because mice had sabotaged the Organ...Mohr said that was a pretty Cheezy thing to do. A COUPLE OF THINGS TO REMEMBER.... Remember the First Rule of Christmas Eve: Read the Instructions First! ALSO..Remember, if the Energizer Bunny crosses your path on Christmas Eve, it means seven years of dead batteries. On Christmas Eve, I'm still a child. I hope you are, too. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND "GOD BLESS US EVERYONE" KEN