Any other retro gold out there on YouTube et al that might might be fun to share here?

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	Retro	Posted at 11:38 am (13 Aug 2008)

You’ve gotta love how when the anchor in this promo refers to their “team” of reporters, the promo actually shows only one guy. (A guy who looks and dresses eerily similar to the anchor.)

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	Ontario, Retro	Posted at 10:45 am (04 Jun 2008)

If you’ve got a second, you may have fun watching some of these CBC Television promos from 1987 including:

• the frighteningly fast-talker Stu Jeffries plugging Good Rockin’ Tonight (you can tell he’s an expert in music because he holds a guitar)
• the single least inspiring news promo of all time
• a Knowlton Nash opening from Sunday Report.

Note to readers under 30: Yes, we really did wear our hair that way in the 80s. No, not ironically.

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	Retro, The National	Posted at 9:18 am (23 May 2008)

Ken Gibson and Peggy Oldfield have put together a comprehensive online newsletter under the Employee Assistance Program for CBC staffers and retirees living in Vancouver and B.C.

The site offers memories from CBC archives, provides a home to the CBC 20 Year association, and helpful information on the EAP. The newsletters are composed quarterly, corresponding with each season, and are packed with CBC news and interesting tidbits.

It also provides the service “Where Are They Now?“, on which the authors post the current careers and whereabouts of past CBC B.C. colleagues. This is definitely a site worth subscribing to for any employee or alumni in the B.C. area.

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	B.C. Interior, Other Internet, Retro, Vancouver, Vancouver Island	Posted at 10:28 am (21 May 2008)