TORONTO – CHUM Radio veteran Bob Laine will will be posthumously inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame and his memory and career honoured with the Allan Waters Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award on March 23 during the Canadian Radio Music Awards in Toronto.
Laine began his broadcasting career at CFRS in Simcoe, ON in 1957 but quickly moved to CHUM Toronto where he would ultimately make his mark as "The Voice". Known as the overnight disc jockey on 1050 CHUM during the 60's – when the station revolutionized the AM signal in Canada by introducing a rock and roll format, he entertained listeners as Bob "The Night Creature" Laine for over a decade.
For 15 years, Laine operated the CHUM network of stations in Winnipeg before returning to Toronto to become director of special projects and later vice-president for CHUM Limited. In this position, he was instrumental in launching the CHUM Radio Network, which he managed until his retirement in October 2003. Not long after retirement, Laine took on the task of assembling and organizing CHUM's vast collection of archives, which would become the CHUMuseum. At the time of his death on August 31, 2011, he had been serving on the board of directors of the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation as its chairman.
Tickets for the Canadian Radio Music Awards luncheon are available for purchase now at www.cmw.net
