Dear Editor:
I just finished reading your piece on “Drex” in the Friday, Oct. 31 edition of the Royal City Record.
Fearless? Brash? Controversial? Hardly.
Rather, Mr. Wicomes, ''Drex" or whatever he calls himself is none of the above.
More accurately I would describe him as dull, uninformed and witless.
His Canadian radio career was jump-started by a stupid question he put to Premier Christy Clark on a Courtenay radio station two years ago.
The line in your piece that really caught my attention was when Mr. Wilcomes actually said, "In this city, up until now no one really had an opinion on the radio."
Yes, that's right, until “Drex” arrived on the scene, no one in the entire history of Vancouver radio broadcasting really had opinions on anything. Not Pat Burns, not Jack Webster, not Rafe Mair, not Gary Bannerman nor Al Davidson.
What a pompous twit!
I worked for CKNW for almost 30 years with some of the most talented people ever and this “Drex” idiot couldn't hold a candle to any of them.
When Corus Entertainment took over ownership of CKNW in 1999 they took the first step in their eventual goal to downsize the station into oblivion and turn it into the talent-starved vortex it has since become. “Drex” and his coterie of empty-headed “producers” with nothing to contribute is the inevitable sad end result.
The nightly performance on the once great CKNW offered up by this motley crew appears to be a free-for-all with little or no direction from station management.
I remember when listening to radio used to be fun, informative and entertaining. Unfortunately those days - thanks to “Drex” and his ilk – are long gone.
Sincerely,
Glen Livingstone, via email
