From TGE Sept. 12, 1998

Last year's Apologies and Clarifications...

VISITORS to last weeks program will no doubt remember a spirited visit from local trivia-savant Rock Hiscock.

Where to start.

In response to a query about BCN's poor showing in the media race at this year's Royal St. John's Regatta, Rock offered a speculation, or theory, perhaps dressed up as fact, explaining the CBC's perennial dominance on the pond.

As a result of Rock's statements this station is obliged to offer the following clarifications:

There is no evidence that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been involved in the genetic engineering of so-called "super-hosts".

There is, to our knowledge, no broadcaster breeding facility in the Muskoka region of Ontario. Thus, a surprise budget shortfall at CBC Radio can, in no way, be attributed to the misappropriation of some $3 million by a shady project leader identifed by Rock as the "Sub-Wizard".

L. Ron Hubbard was not the originator of the slogan, "Classics and Beyond."

Coded messages are not, I repeat, not, broadcast on the CBC Radio Program, "The Transcontinental".

That fluorine in solution is an agent of Hypno-Zombification remains in contention and is not, as stated by Mr. Hiscock, a well-established fact.

Junior Achievers is an organization dedicated to promoting entrepreneurial skills in young people, and not, as Mr. Hiscock suggested...something else altogether.

The Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland apologizes to that most august body, the Royal St. John's Regatta Committee, to Ciba-Geigy, to management at CBC Radio, to the Department of Tourism, Government of Ontario, to the Church of Scientology, to Otto Loewe, to the Candian Dental Association, and to Junior Achievement of Canada for these errors and any inconvenience they may have caused.

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