David Marsden
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Oct 13, 2026
Mike BoonHOST
So I'm hoping before we get into this film, if you would speak about...
Mike BoonHOST
David Marsden.
Jaymz BeeGUEST
Yeah, he was a sweetheart.
Jaymz BeeGUEST
He was the first person who wasn't afraid of my band Look People.
Mike BoonHOST
Yeah.
Mike BoonHOST
And we learned, I learned on Monday morning, maybe that's when you learned, that David Marsden had passed away that very day.
Mike BoonHOST
Yeah.
Mike BoonHOST
So David Marsden put on his wings as Bedini and you and the rest of the band was playing Spirit of Radio, a song about CFNY and the slogan that was coined by David Marsden.
Mike BoonHOST
Can you share with us your memories of the late, great FOTM, David Marsden?
Rob PreussGUEST
Well, first of all, when you mentioned that, I thought that that was an interesting sort of like a like a celestial coincidence that we were singing the song that we were doing the song, knowing that he passed away that day, which you're right.
Rob PreussGUEST
We didn't know until Monday.
Rob PreussGUEST
And it was just like, that was the first time that we had reconnected in a long time.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
Yes.
Scot TurnerHOST
Uh, and off the top, let's just dig right into, um, David Marsden.
Scot TurnerHOST
Obviously, we've been talking a lot about David, and you've been talking a lot about David.
Scot TurnerHOST
The tributes from online to the podcasts to on so many...
Ivar HamiltonHOST
So, um, yes, that, that's what's going on there.
Scot TurnerHOST
Also, uh, let's just talk a little bit about the podcast.
Scot TurnerHOST
If you've not, uh, watched or listened to ours, that we did one, Music Milestones YYZ: A Tribute to David Marsden.
Scot TurnerHOST
It was Ivor, myself.
Mike BoonHOST
But this past week has been awful.
Mike BoonHOST
First, we lost David Marsden.
Mike BoonHOST
then Sass Jordan, and now Larry Millson.
Mike BoonHOST
Larry visited me twice, once solo, to talk about his visits to Maple Leaf Stadium, his years at the Hamilton Spectator, Toronto Star, Toronto Telegram, and of course, the Globe and Mail.
Ted WoloshynHOST
The biggest bone in your body, by God's sake
Bill KingGUEST
sakeSo anyway, we had Allan Cross, uh, Rob Bowman, Elaine Overholt, David Marsden, and we did a-
Ted WoloshynHOST
Yes
Bill KingGUEST
... for David Clayton-Thomas.
Fred PattersonHOST
And a strange Tumble and Fred warrior wanted to share with you both.
Fred PattersonHOST
Re-David Marsden.
Fred PattersonHOST
Now, he attached an Instagram thing.
Fred PattersonHOST
Do you have that?
MikeHOST
... was an FOTM, and she passed away.
MikeHOST
And it was shortly after we lost a man named David Marsden.
MikeHOST
Were you familiar with David Marsden?
Brad JonesHOST
BFNY.
Brad JonesHOST
Yep, that's, that's my, uh, uh, my memory of David.
MikeHOST
'Cause in the, uh, uh, early '60s, I suppose, uh, he was Dave Mickey on CKEY.
MikeHOST
So the generation before us grew up listening to the very fast-talking Dave Mickey on s- 590 CKEY.
MikeHOST
And then he came back, he went to Montreal, and then he came back to Toronto as David Marsden, and h- that's David Marsden we know today.
Michael BarclayGUEST
No. I'm worried about the drive home.
Mike BoonHOST
Well, the gentleman we're going to remember in a moment, David Marsden, that's the first time somebody passed away who had multiple visits to this basement studio.
Mike BoonHOST
That's the first time.
Mike BoonHOST
And I will say, 2,000 episodes, okay? Yeah.
11 MINS LATER
Mike BoonHOST
All these years.
Mike BoonHOST
All right, back to CFNY.
Mike BoonHOST
I think we got to pay some respect to David Marsden here.
Mike BoonHOST
So how important was David Marsden? I mean, he is the man who coined the phrase spirit of radio.
Mike BoonHOST
I can't believe...
Mike BoonHOST
I'm going to borrow a phrase from David Marsden, who also passed away about a week ago.
Mike BoonHOST
I can't believe Sass Jordan at the age of 65 has put on her wings.
Mike BoonHOST
Were you familiar with the singing of Sass Jordan?
David MarsdenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's, that's it.
Connie ThiessenHOST
That's David Marsden appearing in the CFNY: The Spirit of Radio documentary, encapsulating in his own words the ethos of his freeform approach to programming the groundbreaking station from 1979 to 1988.
Connie ThiessenHOST
The legendary DJ, programmer, and Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Hall of Famer passed away September 25th at the age of 85.
Connie ThiessenHOST
On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue, the podcast, CFNY alumni Liz Janik, Scot Turner, and Ivar Hamilton join us to talk about David Marsden and the CFNY legacy, including the station's impact and influence, why it connected so deeply with listeners, and takeaways that could be applied to the current radio landscape.
Scot TurnerGUEST
[upbeat music] Hi, my name is Scot Turner, and I have done radio for, uh, some 40-plus, I guess about 45 years.
Scot TurnerGUEST
I was a radio guy.
Scot TurnerGUEST
There was the documentary which we'll probably touch on and talk about that, um, that, uh, both, uh, uh, Ivor, uh, Liz, uh, myself were all involved in, and particularly Ivor, myself, Ivor, uh, and Alan Cross were executive producers of the documentary, so we, uh, got firsthand involvement in that, and that was a project that went on for a number of years and kept us busy and, and excited about telling that story of CFNY.
Liz JanikGUEST
I'm Liz Janik, and I have been in love with radio and music my entire life.
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