COUNTRY ROOTS
Previous columns in this COUNTRY THE HEARTBEAT OF LARRY DELANEY The Valley
ROOTS series have dealt with some of the key artists who helped make the Ottawa Val- ley a hotbed in Canada’s world of country music. The success that these artists enjoyed at the local and national level was in large part due to the fact that the Ottawa Valley had created its own music industry infra- structure...with support from radio stations, country club venues, recording studios, record labels, booking agencies, a national country music newspaper based out of Ottawa, and people behind these facilities who had a pas- sion to promote the music.
COUNTRY RADIO- THE HEART- BEAT OF THE VALLEY
Unquestionably the key element in the
OTTAWA VALLEY COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME (1988), AND THE CAN- ADIAN COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME (1993). CKBY-FM WAS ITSELF DULY RECOGNIZED WITH INDUCTION INTO THE OVCMHF IN 2010.
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Ottawa Valley country music success story was radio station CKBY-FM. The region had been well served in its early years with country music programming on CFRA, but it wasn’t until the arrival of Ted Daigle at radio station CKOY in the late 1960’s that country music became more prominent on the Ot- tawa Valley’s airwaves. Daigle’s persistence in promoting country music as a mainstream genre eventually was rewarded when CKBY- FM was established in July, 1972, becoming the first full-time FM country music station in Canada. Ted Daigle would spend the next quarter century managing and programming the radio station, assisted by such on-air DJ’s, as Mark Papousek, Doug Anderson, Cary Jensen, and many others who all created their own fan following while treating radio listen- ers to the very best in country music, with a healthy emphasis on Canadian content. Ted Daigle, who was also a gifted record- ing artist and entertainer with several popu- lar albums and chart hits to his credit, was formally recognized for his pioneering role in Canadian country music and radio with induc- tion into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall Of Fame (1988), and The Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame (1993). CKBY- FM was itself duly recognized with induction into the OVCMHF in 2010. While CKBY-FM had a wide reach with its signal, there were several other notable radio stations in the Ottawa Valley airing country music. CJET in Smiths Falls went on-air in the mid-1950’s, and was home for
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