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==Broadcasting== An amateur [[actor]] and performer, Frith found time to act in plays, perform on the radio, and sing and play several instruments, while concurrently building his legal career. In 1949, he hosted [[Western music (North America)|western music]] show ''Home on the Range'' on radio station [[CFRB]] in Toronto.<ref name=cfrb>{{cite web|url=https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-city-of-toronto/cfrb-am/|title=CFRB-AM|website=Canadian Communications Foundation β Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes |publisher=Broadcasting-history.ca|access-date=March 11, 2024}}</ref> He also sang in a choir as a youth that appeared regularly on [[CBC Radio]] and continued to appear on CBC singing in radio operas, acting in dramas such on the anthology series ''Wednesday Night'' and ''Stage'' and as a panelist on ''The Superior Sex'' and ''Live A Borrowed Life'' on [[CBC Television]] in the 1950s. In the 1960s he presented the public affairs show ''Telepoll'' on the [[CTV Television Network]] for several seasons.<ref name="CKWW"/> Frith successfully applied to the [[Board of Broadcast Governors]] in 1963 for a license to operate a new radio station in [[Windsor, Ontario]]. Frith was awarded a license to operate [[CKWW-AM]] but sold the station to [[Geoff Stirling]] before it went on the air.<ref name="CKWW"/>
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