Last week my friend Maurice attended a CBC luncheon as part of the Atlantic Film Festival. As my readers know, I'm unable to leave the apartment so Maurice has become sort of my eyes and ears of the tangible tv film industry in Halifax. He also helps edit this blog and because he's a struggling scriptwriter (ed. is there any other kind in Canada) he wants to remain anonymous so we'll just refer to him as "ed".
To backtrack, several weeks ago we reported that Ron Crocker the Regional Head for the Maritimes "retired" and Andrew Cochrane took over. One of the first things Cochrane did was hire Peter Coade away from rival CTV to bring us the supper time weather. Previously the weather was read to us by anchor Norma Lee McLeod (ed. she was especially good at telling us when it was going to be icy.).
So at the CBC luncheon, it was announced that was only one of several changes that were going to happen over the next few weeks. Yesterday another change was announced, Norma Lee was being replaced at the desk by former anchor from years gone by Jum Nunn!
Now Jimbo left his anchor position years ago, went to Toronto to host Marketplace, left or was made to leave, and returned to Halifax. For the last few years he filled a seat as a"producer" waiting for his pension to kick in and bemoaning his fate.
Until this week. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Norma Lee was told "we're thinking of some changes". Norma Lee had only taken over the desk from Linda Kelly after Nancy Waugh returned to head the newsroom. (ed. "Linda, we're thinking of making some changes." )
I'm sure there were public smiles all around but I bet it's a chilly ole newsroom.
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