An icon of the Atlantic Canadian airwaves has hung up his mic, bringing an end to a career that spanned more than 60 years in private radio and the CBC.

In his book, I Owe It All to Rock and Roll (and the CBC), Frank Cameron says it started in Grade 5 when he wrote a "scandal sheet" about his fellow students and teachers.

In 1955, he got his first job in radio, straight out of high school, working at CKEC in New Glasgow, N.S. "I had the radio bug and there was nothing my mom or dad could do about…