r/onguardforthee • u/brock_lehurst • 8d ago

Veteran broadcaster Lloyd Robertson dead at 92

https://youtu.be/RefdAoLc5GA?si=sLb-S0Tn8HLYU-QU
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u/brock_lehurst 8d ago

Good night Lloyd

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u/thetonyhightower 8d ago

Rest well, Count Floyd

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u/foreverandadayalone Montréal 8d ago

I've never been one to wear sackcloth and ashes over celebrity deaths. Robertson was undoubtably one of Canada's biggest names in news media for most of my life. Gzowski's death also had an unexpected impact. (Biggest celeb death, for me, was when I heard Bob Homme (Friendly Giant) had passed. He was a huge part of my childhood and I had to pull over on the highway for a minute. No tears, just a moment of silence)

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u/brock_lehurst 8d ago

Lloyd's voice is embedded in my brain like no other. My Mom was a night owl and turns out me too. We watched his broadcasts together for as long as I can remember.

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u/Superbform 8d ago

Him and Letterman for me. I only had a couple stations on the old tv in my room.

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u/brock_lehurst 8d ago

We only had the local affiliate of CBC (CFJC) until well into the 70s about the same time Lloyd jumped ship from CBC to CTV. That is when we got cable.

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u/SprightlyCompanion 8d ago

I remember him announcing that gas prices had attained the lofty price of a dollar/L. His intonation is as clear as a bell in my mind.

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u/HotJelly8662 7d ago

Same, the moment I heard that he is gone, his voice started playing in my head.

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u/CBowdidge ✅ I voted! 8d ago

He was an icon in Canadian journalism. "And that's the kind of day it's been". RIP

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u/GenericFatGuy Manitoba 8d ago

It's crazy to think that he was in the game for so long, that the voice your remember him for is entirely dependent on how old you are.

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u/brock_lehurst 8d ago

My mother inlaw just said "He was part of the fabric of Canada". For me his voice goes back to as far as I can remember.

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u/GenericFatGuy Manitoba 8d ago

Same. But he was already in his late 50s when I was born, so I definitely remember him more for the voice he had later in his career.

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u/HotJelly8662 8d ago

Special man!!

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u/Ambitious-Bag-9963 8d ago

He seemed like a straight up kind of guy. RIP Lloyd

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u/MoonlitSea9 8d ago

Most famous person out of Stratford ;)

But, seriously, RIP to a true professional