Enraged that his son Brian Spencer would not appear on Hockey Night in Canada because the CBC television network chose to broadcast a different National Hockey League game, Roy Spencer drove 84 miles from his home in Fort St. James, British Columbia, to the closest CBC affiliate, CKPG-TV in Prince George and held technicians at gunpoint and demanded that they telecast the Toronto Maple Leafs game in which Brian was playing "Player's father shot dead after TV hockey protest", The Leader-Post (Regina, SK), December 14, 1970, p1 .