Rick Honey

“When I was 12,” Rick Honey remembers, “my father who was a policeman, took me to a different business every week to see what my career would be.” One of those places in Winnipeg must have been a radio station, because not long after that, he started working as an operator and music librarian at the FM side of CJOB. “FM was brand new at the time. I think there were two sets in the whole city and my mother had one of them.”  Rick moved around in radio and TV, to Kenora, then Port Arthur, and ended up in the Maritimes. In 1969, on recommendation from Robert Wood of Toronto’s CHUM, he got a call from Frank Callaghan at Vancouver’s CKLG.

“I looked around Vancouver, and knew we’d be here forever.  I went on LG from noon-3, replacing Terry David Mulligan.  I did a lot of M.C. work, too.” The next stop in Rick’s career was CKNW.  CKNW was shaping a youth movement as Morning Man Bob Hutton’s audience was getting older and numerous names were brought up to replace Bob. On April 3, 1973, Rick took over and when he started on air, it took a bit of adjusting.. “I didn’t feel totally comfortable”.  The first thing he said on air: “How do you like me so far?”  In April of 1993, Rick Honey celebrated 20 uninterrupted years as afternoon drive-time host on CKNW!

Died in Vancouver February 24, 2001 at age 53