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From 1957 to 1980 Atkinson was a CBC TV sports commentator, working out of
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in 1954 as CBC Program
Manager. While there, he created many television shows, most of which were brought under question due to the morals of the time. He hired a night club entertainer and his wife as a (male) host for an entertainment program. The program was cancelled as common folk objected to
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Atkinson was married from 1952 to 1977 to Lucy Leach, a singer with Leslie Bell Singers. She appeared on CBC the first night they aired television. They had three children: Kathryn, Marta, and Christopher.
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during the Second World War and served in the
Northwest Europe campaign. After the war Gordon moved to Los Angeles as a TV, radio and motion picture actor, writer and director. He received his training at the
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in 1937. Between 1946 and 1950 he worked in radio, cinema and theatre both in Los
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800 AM radio. The program was given to CJAD in perpetuity, in memory of "those friends who were killed in the two wars in which I participated."
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to become a teacher of television for the newly created CBC-TV in
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