{"id":17998,"date":"2016-03-30T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17998"},"modified":"2016-03-30T17:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:48:14","slug":"wally-crouter-canadas-longest-serving-radio-man-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/wally-crouter-canadas-longest-serving-radio-man-dies-at-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Wally Crouter, Canada’s longest serving radio man, dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wally<\/a>

Wally Crouter (August 5, 1923 \u2013 March 28, 2016) Image: News Talk 1010<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributors, Richard Langley and Bill Patalon, who note the passing of legendary Canadian radio man, Wally Crouter.<\/p>\n

Richard Langley comments:<\/p>\n

I fondly remember listening to him over the years, particularly when I was working (during a couple of my undergraduate degree co-op program work terms) for Philips Electronics in Toronto as a QC inspector at the end of an assembly line for car radios. Yes, these used to be made in North America in the good old days. \ud83d\ude09 Of course, he was on shortwave, too, via CFRX.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/wally-crouter-canadas-longest-serving-radio-man-dies-143336247.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newstalk1010.com\/news\/2016\/03\/28\/in-memoriam-wally-crouter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Like Bill and Richard, I’ve certainly head Wally Crouter on CFRX in the past–I’m sure many Post readers\/SWLs have as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors, Richard Langley and Bill Patalon, who note the passing of legendary Canadian radio man, Wally Crouter. Richard Langley comments: I fondly remember listening to him over the years, particularly when I was working (during a couple of my undergraduate degree co-op program work terms) for Philips Electronics in Toronto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,56,3],"tags":[15,4903,4901,4902,4900],"class_list":["post-17998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cfrb","tag-cfrx","tag-news-talk-1010","tag-wally-crouter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Gi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22236,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/which-is-the-best-sony-icf-2001d2010-or-icf-sw77-part-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":17998,"position":0},"title":"Which is the best? 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