UPDATE- December 30th/08 (JC Douglas)

Q104 Halifax will be re-airing our now legendary “Radio Reunion” on New Year’s Day from 10am till approx. midnight ATLANTIC TIME, fourteen + hours of complete on-air mayhem – great stories, MASSIVE laughs, and some of the best air talent to ever inhabit a Canadian control room. Bro’ Jake (Rock 101), Maddog Michaels (under his earlier “Jay McNeil” monniker) – now at Virgin Toronto, BJ Wilson (XL103 Calgary), Jeff Woods (Corus Toronto), and many, many more.


It’s an old fashioned on-air reunion and it’s all about the magic of radio – the good, the bad, and times quite ugly – there were NO HOLDS BARRED to the behind-the-scenes stories, you won’t believe what you’re going to hear.

New Year’s Day starting at 10am Atlantic (9am Eastern), on Q104 and online at www.Q104.ca …


Q104 celebrates 25th in a big way!
(Written by JC douglas - Program Director)

Halifax’s legendary rocker, Q104, rocked the town all this past weekend in celebration of 25 years of rock radio in the Maritimes. The "Rock of the Atlantic" signed on November 28, 1983, and Nova Scotians never knew what hit them. Metal in the morning, controversy over sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll. It was a truly rebellious beginning and an incredible story of passion, talent, and mischief-making that over 25 years has evolved into the "station of record" in Halifax, recently celebrating a second straight book at #1 in the ever-growing market, 12+ and 25 – 54.

To mark the Silver Anniversary, Q104 put on their "Quarter Century Concert & Clambake" on Friday, November 28, featuring Matt Mays + El Torpedo, The Sam Roberts Band, 54.40, and The Joel Plaskett Emergency before a packed house of 4,000 at the Cunard Centre. Special guests Mike Trask and Charlie A’Court contributed songs in a musical tribute to April Wine, the inaugural inductees to Q104’s "Rock of the Atlantic WALL OF FAME". The plan had been to surprise Myles Goodwyn by reuniting him with the other three original members of April Wine for the first time in public since 1971, but due to a last minute medical emergency Myles had to cancel and April Wine was not able to perform. Those original members, however, David, Ritchie, and Jim Henman, were all on hand to receive the accolades from an adoring hometown crowd, as the Mighty Q paid tribute to the east coast’s most successful rock band ever through live music and rare early video.

Among the other highlights of the weekend, Brother Jake Edwards – flying in from Vancouver’s Rock 101 – revved up his chain saw, reprising his method of cutting the birthday cake that he employed at the station’s first anniversary party in 1984, when he was Program Director and Morning Show host.

Over the weekend, the Q put on a 15 hour "Radio Reunion" in which the current air staff and alumni (including all six of the lead morning hosts in the station’s history) played music from their eras of Q104 history and reminisced over the wildness and behind-the-scenes antics that fuelled the spirit of one of the country’s most intriguing radio stations. Bro’ Jake, Q107’s Jeff Woods, Virgin Radio’s Jay "Maddog" Michaels, XL 103 Calgary’s BJ Wilson, and many other well-known alumni shared the mic over two days, and left ‘Q Nation’ breathless from laughing so hard.

A fitting celebration for a quarter century of trailblazing radio in Atlantic Canada.

On a personal note...........

I would would like to say Thank You to JC Douglas and the Q crew for allowing me to be the fly on the wall...as they shared their memories and friendship. The following are snaps that I took during the weekend of this amazing part of broadcast history. There was SO much in the way of radio talent...that just shows me what a power house of a station Q104 was and currently continues to be!

	Q104's first morning host, Brother Jake Edwards with Q's Bob Powers
	Billy Bob, who was Queen Square's caretaker became a part of the Q morning show with brother Jake, They met in an elevantor of the building. Jake thought Billy-Bob would be a great part of the morning show...and then a star was born!
	Pictured here, left from right: JC Douglas, Billy Bob, Doug Baron (Hal Harbour), Bob Powers and Brother Jake Edwards.
	JC Douglas hosted and worked the board during the Q104 25th Radio Reunion Broadcast
	Bob Powers and Brother Jake on the air
	Q104 newscaster, Andrew Gillis