ON Monday morning Demi, Bruce,
Sylvester and Meg loomed over a bustling
crowd at Planet Hollywood.

Coftee flowed and the well-dressed crowd
devoured muffins and strawberries.

The glitzy early a.m. premier of Star FM and its
new morning man, North Vancouver’s Rick Honey,
was on.

Honey, wearing a white blazer, worked the crowd,
receiving the good wishes of friends such as Pat
Quinn, Ernie Crist, Chuck Davis and Russ Froese.

From now on, you can hear the former drive-time
host on CKNW on Star FM 104.9 in the morning.

Honcy, who will be joined by Kerry Grace on the
morning show, says entertaining is in his blood.

“I’ve always been a morning kind of guy and I
love doing morning, shows,” Honey said. “I love to
make people laugh.”

Honey’s father in Winnipeg used to be a police-
man by day and a stage entertainer by night.

Rick carried on the show biz tradition by going
into radio. The Seymour resident worked as an
announcer on the Prairies and in Ontario and the

Maritimes before coming to
Vancouver as a Boss Jock on the old
CKLG-AM.

He then performed his afternoon
gig ac CKNW for 24 years.

Honey said breakfast shows have
the biggest impact on a sration’s suc-
cess and he’s excited about Srar-FM’s
plans.

“We will bring fun back into
Vancouver radio programming,” said
Honey.

Star-FM recently launched a Lower
Mainland FM network thar gives it the
largest service area of any radio station
in B.C.

The station’s new transmitter, located on Mount
Seymour, gives the station coverage of the entire
Lower Mainland and its ewe million people.

“The combined coverage of transmitters in
Vancouver, Abbotsford and Chilliwack will mean the

station will be heard in quality stereo FM from.

Horseshoe Bay to Hope,” said Fraser Valley Radio
Group president Bill Coombes.

NEWS photo lan Nebie

STAR-FM welcomed morning show hosis Kerry Grace
(left) and Rick Honey at a Planet Hollywood
attended by Coun. Ernie Crist and Gall Honey (right).

bash

Under an agreement, U News at Six and Star-FM
will share stories from their reporting staffs in’
Victoria, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

U. TY anchors Suzette Meyers and Russ Froese
will broadcast hourly news updates on Star-FM week-
day afternoons, culminating with STAR’s simulcast of G
the first twenty minutes of U News at Six. .

— lan Noble

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