CKNW AM 980 commercial from 1988

Rafe Mair and Bill Good are featured in this 27 year old TV commercial for CKNW, which is still on AM 980 and which Bill worked for up until his retirement recently.

Rafe Mair and Bill Good are featured in this 27 year old TV commercial for CKNW, which is still on AM 980 and which Bill worked for up until his retirement recently. It's not as great as the commercial for the Province newspaper that we SHARED but it's a pretty cool look back on the history of media in our city.

This clip is one of many gems that V.I.A. reader Rob Richardson has dug up from his collection. The source is a vast archive of VHS tapes that he recorded himself or has managed to collect from thrift stores, flea markets, storage lockers, yard sales, contacts with people in other parts of Canada and the U.S., and anywhere he can manage. He's driven over to Vancouver Island and as far down as Olympia, Washington to rescue analogue goodness before they've wound up in the scrapper and we're happy to bring you a Vancouver-centric clip each week.

Here are some others we've shared:

- Local restaurant succumbs to development pressures - 1997

- That time the Masters of the Universe live show played the Coliseum - 1987

- A truck rips around INSIDE the gates of BC Place - 1985

- "Nice tooter!" CBC News broadcast from New Years - 1985

- Vancouver East Neighbourhood Television - 1985

- Gigantic bottle of O'Keefe's Extra Old Stock appears on the Vancouver Skyline - 1987

- "Get a head start" with The Province Newspaper - Early 1980's

- Malacca Rattan commercial - 1987

- Vancouver Television (VTV) promo - 1998

- Celebrities, back when it was known as the Crazy Horse Cabaret - 1977

- The Captain says Aye Aye and Goodbye to 175 pounds, smokes and alcoholism! - early 2000's