Thomas Gary Gibney

When Joe Mariash left CFTO in the spring of 1974, he’d been anchor of World Beat News for nine-and-a-half years; and my mother was more than a little skeptical of his replacement, to the point of mocking the way he signed off every broadcast racing through all three of his names.

     ThomasGaryGibney.

     ThomasGaryGibney.

     ThomasGaryGibney!

And you have to wonder if somehow he’d heard her, because he settled soon enough on the much simpler “Tom” . . . using that until he retired in 2007.

     Meanwhile, despite her initial misgivings, Mum kept watching the Channel 9 news every night after supper.

     Never Channel 5.

Inspired by Sweet Honesty. Image based on a still from this CTV tribute on the occasion of Gibney’s death in 2021.