 While pursuing what he considered a sideline career on television, he remained with the Dominion Weather Service and rose to the position of head of the verification section finally leaving in 1968 to join the CBC full-time.During his stint at CBC he hosted a multitude of special shows and also developed into one of Canada's best interviewers.He left the network in 1972 to become a co-host of CTV's new morning show "Canada AM".