The alarm clock will buzz at 4 a.m. for the final time on Feb. 4 as Loucks says goodbye to nearly 40 years of hosting“It’s just time. My wife and I, she has a busy business and we just find that the 4 a.m. wears both of us down and we want a little bit more of a normal life,” he said.“Retired to me has a negative connotation,” he said.“I want to still be active in radio and working for this great company.
“One day I was jacking around in class and this teacher, as I was leaving class that day, he said, ‘Do you ever think about getting into radio?’”He reached out for advice and started looking for a radio school. Loucks’ older brother then contacted him. “He reached out and on his own, found a school in Minneapolis — Brown Institute — and he called me one day and he said, ‘Listen, why don’t you apply to this radio school? Come live with us. We’ll get to know each other.’”“I graduated in the spring of 1973 and I’ve never looked back.His first job was at CFRY in Portage La Prairie, Man., and by the early 1980s, Loucks’ career had taken him to CMJE in Regina.
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