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In memoriam: Mark Dailey

Television in Toronto will never be the same. Hopefully they'll keep some of his voiceover work going for years to come.
 
Mark was also heard in the Maritimes where he was the intro voice for ATV News in the 80s and 90s (ATV was CHUM-owned until the asset swap in the late 90s that saw ATV/ASN become a CTV O&O and would also lead to the creation of the NewNet in Ontario).
 
mimo said:
Television in Toronto will never be the same. Hopefully they'll keep some of his voiceover work going for years to come.
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Looks like they've chosen Roger Peterson to be the permanent replacement for the 11pm newscast.
Shouldn't they rehire Laura Dibatista, (as a reporter) now that Roger will be a mainstay anchor rather than rotating between anchor and reporter?

I think Roger is also the new voice of City TV (Toronto), but I'm not 100% certain.
It sounds like his voice.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
mimo said:
Television in Toronto will never be the same. Hopefully they'll keep some of his voiceover work going for years to come.
Click to expand...

Looks like they've chosen Roger Peterson to be the permanent replacement for the 11pm newscast.
Shouldn't they rehire Laura Dibatista, (as a reporter) now that Roger will be a mainstay anchor rather than rotating between anchor and reporter?

I think Roger is also the new voice of City TV (Toronto), but I'm not 100% certain.
It sounds like his voice.
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I'd like to see Laura rehired. She's always been one of my favourite reporters.
 
I think Laura was one of the lucky ones to be paid a good severance-wage to not show up anywhere else for a while. (a no compete clause of some sort)

Respectfully, that's just a guess as to why she hasn't shown up anywhere else.
 
Mark Dailey got his start south of the border, in Youngstown, Ohio, back in 1969. He first worked for WNIO/1540 Niles (now WRTK; call letters are slated to become WYCL in a few weeks) as a broadcast news reporter, moving on to WHOT/1330 (now WHOT/101.1) and the city's ABC affiliate, WYTV/33 in 1971. This was before hitting it big at CKLW/800 in Windsor/Detroit at age 20, and ultimately to Toronto with CHUM Radio, and then, at CityTV.

Some other personal reflections on the Girard, Ohio native are here:
http://ohiomediawatch.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/no-theme-anymore/
 
Yesterday at noon local, the Citytv O&Os ran an hour-long special, Mark Dailey: In Memory of the Voice. The special, which was hosted by Gord Martineau, showed some footage from Mark's funeral with eulogies from Martineau, along with Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor (a City alumnus) and Toronto's Police Chief among others.
 
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