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John Dightam
In Memory of
John Bryan
Dightam
1935 - 2017
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Robert and Carol Fripp

John, you dear soul, you always had a hard edge wonderfully tempered by a fine sense of humour. Shortly after leaving England I reported to CBC-TV’s Studio 12, around 1968. And there you were! Studio 12 was the on-air presentation booth which kept the national network running smoothly, through several time zones, and to the nearest second. News one minute, sports or a live interview to follow. With remarkably little (zero) training, I was about to take over the coordinating producer’s chair, with a switcher (video) one side, audio on the other, and an intercom to telecine upstairs. John was about to go off shift: “There’s a network out there, boy, feed it!” he instructed. "Don’t let it go to black.” Then he left me his warm chair. J ohn did that difficult job so smoothly, I was in awe. I remained in awe until I realised that he had worked a similar job before. During his National Service in the Royal Air Force, he had run the services broadcasting station, Compton Forces Network. He told one young announcer that if the man desired a career in radio he had better change his name. He did. He has had a wonderful career. Blunt. That was John. Very Yorkshire. Carol and I “hit it off” with John’s family. We met Elaine, Louise and Fiona early on. Once, at their home on Toronto’s Pinto Drive, we encountered a very strange object. “Go on,” said John, “pick it up and dial your number. It won’t bite you.” It was the first digital dial telephone we had ever seen. John was always ahead of the crowd with technology. “A pioneer in the computer industry,” his obituary says. Good for you, John. His expertise may have had something to do with his early trials, coaxing sound and pictures from first generation Ampex videotape units, in the late fifties. When the Dightams moved to Elora we didn’t see them for several decades. Then, a few years ago we attended an event. The space was crowded, but there came a voice, that voice, distinct from the crowd. We followed the voice and found John and Elaine. We shall be in Elora to see you off, at St John’s Church. I have written enough. God bless you, John. Robert and Carol
Monday June 12, 2017 at 11:15 am
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