HOLD ON, I'M COMING (TSN 690 20th ANNIVERSARY)

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And it was a long time coming.

Some people to thank starting with our sponsors who got hit up without a lot of lead time – Colin Nix and everybody at Mirela’s/Magic Palace; Ace broker Wayne Bews at Royal Lepage in the Pointe Claire Village; Paul Desbaillets and the Burgundy Lion Group/GOAL Initiatives; McKibbins Irish Pub; Jeff Picard & everybody at Brutopia Brew Pub; Dave Smith at Environnement Electronique; Peter Gianopoulos at Baton Rouge Decarie; Frank Candido at Ugo Pizzeria on de la Commune in Old Montreal and Lorne Rubin at Paramount Financial Services (514-905-0885).

Olivier Corbeil, Veronique Ouellette, Walid Dahman and the entire staff at Fairmount Theatre.

Jay Farrar (MC) & Annakin Slayd for not only the stage time but for producing and editing our opening and closing montages.

Howard Bilerman of hotel2tango for again finding the perfect combination of indie musicians for the moment, as he does for almost every Billy Bob Productions event.

Thanks as well to Alex Petraki, Fern Boule at Coll Audio and Brandon Gear of The Sunset Drip.

Plus Ken Doran, Noel Butler, Leonard Yelle and Chris Bury.

And Stu Cowan of The Gazette for the pre-event profiles: https://montrealgazette.com/sports/stu-cowan-mitch-melnick-and-tsn-690-radio-celebrate-20-years-on-air

https://montrealgazette.com/sports/mitch-melnick-discusses-his-45-years-in-radio-and-love-for-bob-dylan

The gathering also served as a going away party for Elliott Price (retirement in Maple Ridge, B.C.), Julian McKenzie (The Athletic Calgary) & Dan Robertson (TSN Hockey Winnipeg Jets). May their lives get even better.

Claudine Cook is the longtime Executive Director of ALS Quebec. She was one of the driving forces behind the celebration (without even knowing it). And absolute angel in this city. And the entire Stock family represented by PJ. It’s beyond difficult to imagine the pain of losing a husband, father, brother and son at age 39. May Dean’s life serve as yet another reminder of just how precious and fleeting life is. Aim high.

And thanks to our incredibly loyal listeners who have stayed with us since our sign on in May of 2001 and for the many who supported the evening.

Here’s a partial list of current/former The Team 990/TSN 690 staffers/freelancers & friends who partied with us:

Kelly Albert/Dwight Baird/John Bartlett/Vinny Barucco (Intern)/Arpon Basu/Bianca Bayer (board op/reviews)/Bill Beacon/Andie Bennett/Patrice Bernier/Dean Bertoia/Wayne Bews (Sales Manager/General Manager)/Chris Boucher (Montreal Canadiens Director of Hockey Analytics)/Karen Bryant-Pepper (Sales)/Chris Bury (TSN 690 PD)/Noel Butler/Marco Campagna/Sean Campbell/Matt Casavant/Jason Casey (College Football)/Mario Cecchini/Bill Chatzopoulos (Intern)/John Cresta (Sales)/Jacob Cohen (APD)/Claudine Cook/Stu Cowan/Sarah Deshaies/Kesh Dheer (SM)/Anna Dua (Intern/Campbell vs Gallo)/Joey Elias/Eric Engels (Intern/Habs)/Michael Farber/Liz Farnsei (Sales)/Jay Farrar/Lloyd Fischler (Billy Bob Productions)/Robyn Flynn/Rod Francis/Ron Francis/Bob Gainey/Mitch Gallo/Perry Giannis (ExposFest)/Marc Antoine Godin/Sean Gordon/Paul Graif/Terry Haig/Pat Hickey/Bruce Hills (JFL)/Pierre Houde/William Jegher (Montreal Baseball Project)/Mike Kelly (Sportlogiq/Campbell vs Gallo)/Paul Lambert (Sales)/David Landsman/Walter Lyng/Mel Maestro (Promotions)/Pete Marier/BobMarier/Jade Melnick/Lee Melnick/Max Melnick (Intern)/Conor McKenna/Julian McKenzie/Greg McLaughlin (Sales)/Rick Moffatt/Sergio Momesso/Jimmy Murphy/Cathy Newton/JP O’Connor/Picard/Elliott Price/Ron Reusch/Alex Robertson/Dan Robertson/Matthew Ross/Lorne Rubin/Jessica Rusnak/Erica Santori (Promotion/Production)/Scott Saxon (Copy)/Luca Scott/Derek Seguin/Matthew Shanahan (Intern)/Kyle Sparks aka Showbiz514/Will Stanback/Shaun Starr/Jon Still/PJ Stock/Eric Thomas(SN)/Dave Trentadue/Simon Tsalikis/Esteban Vargas/Amy Walsh/Dwight Walton/Brian Wilde/Mathew Wood/Peter Yannopoulos

And one final thank you to our talented photographer Daniel Haber https://dfhphotography.pixieset.com/

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TSN 690 20th Anniversary

Reunited

Kathleen Battah (Hurley's), Sue, Jeff Picard of Brutopia & Rod Applebee of Hurley's

Simon Tsalikis, Reusch & Wilde(?)

Alouettes President Mario Cecchini, the CFL's best running back Will Stanback & former Alouette Paul Lambert

Besner & Cohen. Not lawyers.

Wayne Bews with longtime listener Ron Rosen

JP O'Connor with his much better half Amy Walsh and McKenna

Joanne Ferme & Danny Gallant

PJ Stock w/ his wingers Melnick & Lorne Rubin

Rick Moffatt, Jay Farrar, Jabbar Charles & TSN 690/CJAD PD Chris Bury. Jabbar was among first kids Rick spoke to at CJAD's first Children's Hospital Radiothon. Born at a little over a pound, doctors said he wouldn't live. At a year they said he'd never walk. Sometimes doctors are wrong.

New mom Jessica Rusnak

Brian & Conor

Many thanks to Mario Cecchini, Will Stanback, Joey Alfieri (health scare in family kept him away) and Montreal Alouettes

Between the early cocktails for out-of-towners and longtime staffers and clients and the party that began at 7:30, over 400 people made it into the Fairmount. That's George Riskas of Rubs in foreground looking for some red meat.