The voice of a city died today.
Toronto's Citytv news anchor and station announcer Mark Dailey dead of cancer at 57.
I went to a street festival once at Yonge and Eglinton, and Dailey was emceeing something or other, and once finished with business he wound up by intoning 'This is Citytv...' and we all -- all several thousand of us -- screamed back "EVERYWHERE!!"
A voice so authoritative that it still makes Corey Haim sound cool...
...so snarky it anticipates the Internet by a decade...
...and so awesome it could do promos for 'Your Federation Station' and dare you to laugh.
Ave atque vale, Mark.
I went to a street festival once at Yonge and Eglinton, and Dailey was emceeing something or other, and once finished with business he wound up by intoning 'This is Citytv...' and we all -- all several thousand of us -- screamed back "EVERYWHERE!!"
A voice so authoritative that it still makes Corey Haim sound cool...
Click to view...so snarky it anticipates the Internet by a decade...
...and so awesome it could do promos for 'Your Federation Station' and dare you to laugh.
Ave atque vale, Mark.