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For over 50 years Tony Parsons has been a newsman and news anchor. Never a news maker.
That all changed last December, when he retired from his enviable thirty year career anchoring the major newscast on BCTV/ Global, Vancouver.
He was its franchise.
One of the most highly respected and recognized persons in B.C., he'd built it up to where it had a larger share than any newscast in any major market in North America.
CLICK HERE for the story at Broadcaster Magazine
by Dick Drew
dickdrew@shaw.ca