In 2022, we have a variety of options to stay informed and up-to-date with the latest news. You can scroll through Twitter, check out Facebook, or browse through news articles. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, it was a different story. All you had was the daily newspaper, radio newscasts, and the supper-hour newscast from your local TV station. The lack of technological inventions also made it tougher for these stations to deliver the content you see and hear on a daily basis. What was it like to assemble a newscast back then? Kristy Cameron speaks to 91-year-old radio veteran Gordon Breen, who delivered news updates on CFRA in the 1980s and 1990s.

<p>In 2022, we have a variety of options to stay informed and up-to-date with the latest news. You can scroll through Twitter, check out Facebook, or browse through news articles. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, it was a different story. All you had was the daily newspaper, radio newscasts, and the supper-hour newscast from your local TV station. The lack of technological inventions also made it tougher for these stations to deliver the content you see and hear on a daily basis. What was it like to assemble a newscast back then? Kristy Cameron speaks to 91-year-old radio veteran Gordon Breen, who delivered news updates on CFRA in the 1980s and 1990s.</p>

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Ottawa Now – ‘If you worked early in the morning and the night guy forgot to put paper in the teletype, you were out of news’: Radio veteran Gordon Breen delves into his catalogue of CFRA memories from the 1980s and 1990s

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