Ted Blackman was a well known Canadian

Canada

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 media personality in the Montreal

Montreal

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 area.

Blackman's career started as a disc jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 at high school and teen club dances in the 1950s. After high school he sold his records and equipment to one of his friends, Donald Tarlton

Donald K. Tarlton

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 (a/k/a Donald K Donald), who later became Montreal's premier promoter and rock and roll

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 impresario.

Blackman began his career in journalism in Toronto

Toronto

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 with United Press International

United Press International

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 in 1961, covering three Toronto Maple Leafs

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 championships as well as several Grey Cup

Grey Cup

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s. In the mid 1960s he moved back home as a sports reporter for the Montreal Gazette, where he covered a variety of events prior to becoming the chief writer for the expansion Montreal Expos

Montreal Expos

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 baseball club. During this time he was widely credited with creating nicknames such as "Le Grande Orange" for outfielder Rusty Staub

Rusty Staub

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 and the bleachers at Jarry Park Stadium

Jarry Park Stadium

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 as "Jonesville" in honour of long ball hitter Mack Jones

Mack Jones

Mack F. Jones , nicknamed "Mack The Knife", was a Major League Baseball left fielder who played for the Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves , Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Jones was signed by the Milwaukee Braves as a...

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In 1971 Blackman began his dual role in the Montreal media working for CJAD 800 am radio. He worked in various roles in Montreal radio over the next thirty years in sports and programming, primarily at CJAD, but had stints as a morning man at rival CFCF

CINW (AM)

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 1979-81 and The Team at its Montreal Team 990

CKGM (AM)

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, an all sports station.

He also penned a daily news column for the Montreal Gazette.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YX4xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c6QFAAAAIBAJ&dq=prostitute%20gazette&pg=1771%2C785648

In October 1984 The Montreal Gazette suspended Blackman from his columnnist position for having taken a job with radio station CJAD. The case was brought to labour arbitration.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ICAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4aUFAAAAIBAJ&dq=maur%20gazette&pg=863%2C1814832

Blackman died in hospital on October 2, 2002 from complications of a liver transplant.