Radio / Television News

Winnipeg’s top morning drive guy takes to TV

by Myron Love WINNIPEG - Larry Updike's top-ranked morning radio show on CJOB/68 can now also be seen on cable television (Shaw TV, Channel 9). The simulcasts started on Monday, September 10. Updike has been hosting the morning show for the past seven years. The CJOB Morning Show has consistently had the largest audience (per share) of any radio show in Canada. The simulcast is a collaboration between Shaw and Corus Entertainment (Shaw and Corus share the same controlling family). The arrangement augments Shaw TV’s programming and is largely for their benefit, Updike notes. He says that CJOB is the...