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The 6 o'clock
SCAN News Team |
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Gary McLaren, Larry McIntyre and Don
MacDonald |
When SCAN first started Mcintyre,
Macdonald and I were known as the Scan Clan. The
origin of the name escapes me now but I do recall we
kicked around a variety of names for that 6PM newscast
before coming up with Scan.
We wanted something short and
catchy. At one time, the 3 of us sort of rotated, each
of us spent one week out of three working the late
afternoon and night run doing the late news. The
other two worked the days, writing, reporting and
performing on the 6PM show, which contained a local and
area newscast, plus another national/ international
segment, and a sportcast, and weathercast.
There was also an interview segment
in the program during which we brought in civic
officials, service club members, local and area
politicians etc.
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Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau on
the SCAN set with Gary McLaren
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Somewhere in those years we brought
in outside people to do our weather reports. Dave
MacDonald and Jim Miller, both of whom were
employed by the federal government Meteorological
service at the Waterloo-Wellington Airport weather
office. They alternated doing the 6 pm weather depending
on which shift, early day or late day they were
scheduled for at the Airport.
The 6 pm SCAN news program was very
successful, so much so that people in the community took
to referring to that news program as - "SCAN'.
thanks to Gary McLaren
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