George Clarke Chandler

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George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18,1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56. Chandler founded radio station CJOR in Vancouver, BC in 1926 which played a major role in West Coast North American Broadcasting producing music shows and radio dramas. In 1933, the station changed it's frequency to 600 AM and location to the basement of the Grosvenor Hotel both of which remained the same for more than 50 years. The station hosted talent that included Jack Webster, Pat Burns, Dick Diespecker, Fletcher Markle, John Drainie, Alan Young and Arthur Hill. The latter two became Hollywood movie stars.

[edit] External links

• George Chandler at BC Radio History
• George Chandler at Canadian Communications Foundation