Category Archives: Announcer Blogs

Thanks to Vernon Oickle "The Dean of Nova Scotia Authors" for the chat about his new book: Nova Scotia's BEST Word Search Book Vol. 1. For lovers of word search books, this volume features 80 puzzles ...

Happy retirement to our own Kelli Rickard from the Hot Country 1035 News Room, as of the 12 noon news today, she's read her last newscast. After starting in radio in 1986, Kelli is hanging up the micr...

Bruce Rainnie the CEO and President of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame called me today to share his memories of our legendary Halifax curler Colleen Jones. Bruce and Colleen worked for 30 plus year...

Halifax's legendary Canadian curler Colleen Jones has passed away at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. I first met Colleen at the 1987 Jeux Canada Games in Sydney while I was just a teenager s...

Luke Combs will be a guest on the Manningcast tonight on "Monday Night Football". He's joining Peyton Manning and Eli Manning during the second quarter of the 49ers and Panthers game. Peyton already h...

We are thrilled to announce to have Denyse Sibley return to Hot Country 1035 for the 26th annual Cars R Us Toy Drive. Denyse will be reunited with Ian Robinson on-air in the afternoon. Above: At the 2...

On Hot Country mornings with Jody & Melody we shared on your Country Catch Up the highlights from last night's CMAs! What a night!! Lainey Wilson did a great job as host. She kept things moving &a...

The Halifax Macs annual Hockey Fights Cancer event is on Wednesday, November 26th at 7pm in the Halifax Forum. Halifax U18 pioneered this event for the league in 2012. In 2023, the Nova Scotia U18 Maj...

Josh Stumpf gave me a call to talk about his big Top 10 song from this summer called "Highway Money." It was co-written by Hot Country Hangout Alumni, Jason Blaine and has over 2 million combined stre...

A week ago today, Friday, November 7th, I made O negative blood donation # 63 for Halifax Mooseheads Anthem Singer # 63 Peter Baylis who was then fighting his brain cancer battle. I did hear from Pete...