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Prior Smith

Prior Smith is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Prior Smith rather than just read about it. In short: Prior Smith (born 1944) is a retired Canadian broadcaster who owned and operated the network radio program Canada Calling and, for 35 years, produced the Canadian syndicated radio show "Grapeline". Broadcasting career Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith began his career in radio broadcasting with brief stints as a news reporter/announcer at CKLY-Lindsay, Ontario, (1966) CHYR Leamington/Windsor, Ontario (1967) and CJSS C…

Key takeaways

Prior Smith belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Prior Smith to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Prior Smith from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Prior Smith (born 1944) is a retired Canadian broadcaster who owned and operated the network radio program Canada Calling and, for 35 years, produced the Canadian syndicated radio show "Grapeline".

Broadcasting career Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith began his career in radio broadcasting with brief stints as a news reporter/announcer at CKLY-Lindsay, Ontario, (1966) CHYR Leamington/Windsor, Ontario (1967) and CJSS Cornwall, Ontario (1968) before moving to CJAD Montreal, Quebec in 1968. After one year at CJAD he moved to the legendary CFRB in Toronto in 1969. He worked as a general assignment news reporter/newscaster for the next 18 years. While working in news at CFRB, Smith branched into radio network syndication creating and distributing a number of national radio programs, the most prominent of which was Grapeline featuring hockey commentator Don Cherry and sports broadcaster Brian Williams. The program, the longest running nationally syndicated radio show in Canadian history, started in the fall of 1984 and concluded in the spring of 2019. Also during his time at CFRB, Smith created a syndicated radio news program to serve traveling and vacationing Canadians across the southern United States.

Canada Calling Canada Calling was a daily radio newscast prepared in southern Ontario throughout the winter months. It was available on demand online at http://www.canadacalling.com and syndicated to a network of radio stations across the U.S. Sunbelt and the Bahamas, which served the more than three million Canadian vacationers who travel south each winter. The original program was created by CBC sports and news announcer Dave Price. It was launched January 4, 1954 on stations in Miami Beach and Tampa. Price would retire in the mid-1970s, selling the operations to Canadian broadcast executive Finlay MacDonald. In 1977, Smith formed his own network and his coverage of the market quickly expanded to include all of Florida, The Bahamas, Arizona, southern California and south Texas. For a brief period the two networks competed for audience before Price's original service ceased operations. Smith never missed a day hosting the daily newscast for the past 48 years and carried on the Canada Calling tradition through 2025, its 71st winter broadcast season. Canada Calling's decades on air throughout Florida was honored by the Florida Association of Broadcasters at its annual convention in Miami Beach June 26, 2013 with Prior Smith in attendance representing the longest running radio show in Florida history.

References

WWBF WSRQ-FM https://web.archive.org/web/20090207011901/http://www.broadcastdialogue.com/article_view.asp?action=view&idnumber=407 https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/27/business/bitter-cold-makes-it-easier-to-sell-the-sun-to-canadians.html http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/great-sports-programming-a-real-achievement-but-two-hundred-grand-doesnt-hurt/1000229484/?&er=NA http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/canada-calling-radio-network-to-begin-60th-season/1002660901/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/grapeline-endures-with-winning-formula-of-commentary-and-chemistry/article726161/ https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/don-cherry-grapevine

External links Canada Calling

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Prior Smith

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Prior Smith claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Prior Smith before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Prior Smith ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Prior Smith

In research: Prior Smith appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Prior Smith in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Prior Smith is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1944 births, Canadian diaspora in North America, Canadian radio personalities, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Prior Smith outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Prior Smith in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Prior Smith means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Prior Smith out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Prior Smith in simple terms?

Prior Smith (born 1944) is a retired Canadian broadcaster who owned and operated the network radio program Canada Calling and, for 35 years, produced the Canadian syndicated radio show "Grapeline". Broadcasting career Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith began his career in radio broadcasting with brief…

Why does Prior Smith matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Prior Smith?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Prior Smith.