Billy Browne
  
     An hour long morning show on which listeners can hear selections from a private collection of British recordings, win a canary or cuckoo clock and do the breakfast dishes to a lively jig, helps to start the day at CJOR Radio.  The program, designed to entertain that portion of B.C. listeners who are of British descent, features Billy Browne, Jr. as is called "Breakfast with Browne."

     The feature attractions of ths show are Sunny Boy and Billy Boy, Billy Browne's singing canaries.  They have their own mike and represent live Canadian talent as they supply their own musical background to the program.  Listeners write in to "The Breakfast Table" for a membership card which contains a lucky number.  A number is drawn daily and the winner receives his or her choice of a canary, mantel radio or cuckoo clock.  "Breakfast Table" membership now stands at over 300,000. 

     Billy's collection of British recordings, started by his father, who originated the program in 1938, is rated as one of the finest in North America.  During a 5-minute segment of the program, Billy plays a tune from "Away Back When".  This tune is from his own library of originals and includes a complete collection of Gene Austin, Bing Crosby, Russ Colombo and others.  Many of these are unobtainable anywhere today.  Another 5-minute segment of the show dedicates the "Thought for the Day."  During this segment listeners are invited to send a good thought to someone somewhere during the reading of a poem of homely philosophy.  Available to "Breakfast with Browne" fans is a book entitled "Gems from Billy Browne's Scrapbook" containing poems of homely philosophy.

        Time checks and weather reports are spaced throughout the 60-minute show.  The "feature time check" at 9:00 am when the program's cuckoo clock signals, as Billy puts it "set your clock now and be on time all day." 

       "Breakfast with Browne" listeners enjoy writing to Billy just chatting and requesting tunes and sometimes favors.  A "colorful" favor request was received recently when a housewife in a remote location far up the coast requested Billy to pick up a pair of red flannels for her husband. 

       The show is tidied up each morning with the washing of the dishes a "Jig Time" to the accompaniment of a lively jig.  The program's emcee, jovial Billy Browne, hobbies collecting records, fishing, golfing and conducting various public services.  Billy, much sought after to conduct public service functions, is an excellent fisherman, lousy golfer, capable beauty contest judge and a hopeful sponsor a soap box derby entry in the championships.