Carnie's Comments
It's Throwback Thursday as we celebrate 100 years on the air at 800 CHAB.
Let's go back about 30 years. I was called to action late one afternoon when RCMP chased a bank robbery suspect to Moose Jaw and then lost him. City police, RCMP including the SWAT team surrounded a home in northwest Moose Jaw. The news director sent me to the scene with a Motorola bag phone to send in live reports.
A friend of mine spotted me in the CHAB van and invited me into his home. He said he had a great view of the scene from his back deck.
I set up shop and proceeded to call in those live reports, painting the picture for our local listeners.
Within a half hour the local police were banging on my friend's front door, looking for me!
One of the cops told me I was to stop reporting immediately. I was baffled.
"But, why?", I said.
He said there was the possibility the suspect could be listening to the radio and getting information that could impact the operation.
I obliged.
Hours later, when police entered the home, they found it was unoccupied - nobody there. The bank robber was never there. He was long gone.
And, I wonder, if he was listening to CHAB...as he made his get-a-way.