David Marsden
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David Marsden is a Canadian radio broadcaster. As the driving force behind Brampton, Ontario radio station CFNY in the 1980s, he became one of the most influential figures in the Canadian music industry by giving many Canadian and international alternative rock artists their first major Canadian radio exposure.
[edit] Creates The Spirit Of Radio
Marsden was hired by station owner Leslie Allen as CFNY's program director in 1978. The station's mandate had been to present significantly different programming than other radio stations in the Greater Toronto Area, but before Marsden's arrival the station's format had been highly eclectic. Marsden saw the commercial potential of punk and new wave, and opened CFNY's focus, creating Canada's first alternative music station in the punk/new wave format. Throughout the 1980s, under the slogan the spirit of radio, CFNY was one of the most influential promoters of new International and Canadian artists most radio ignored.
The Artist RUSH wrote a song called 'The Spirit Of Radio' as a tribute to CFNY and the team producing this amazing radio.
In July 1987, Marsden and CFNY general manager Bill Hutton hired Don Berns as the new program director. Initially, Marsden continued as director of operations, and as executive producer of the CASBY Awards, but left CFNY a year later. He joined the CBC to produce the successful TV show Pilot 1. That show won several awards including Silver at the Chicago Film and Video Festival. Also some of those shows were seen on BBC UK. Following that Marsden launched another Progressive Free Form Modern Rock station, Coast 1040, in Vancouver.
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