Pip Wedge, a broadcast pioneer who helped shape the British and Canadian private TV businesses when first getting off the ground, has died. He was 97.
Wedge passed away peacefully and unexpectedly on April 15 in Toronto from natural causes after feeling unwell and taking a nap from which he never woke, his wife, Lis Wedge, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. “After nearly 61 years of marriage, I am missing him tremendously,” she said in a statement.
Born on Dec. 2, 1928 in Forest Hill, in southeast London, U.K., Wedge was named Philip by his parents so that they might call him Pip, after the Charles Dickens character in the classic Great Expectations novel. Following high school studies during the turbulent Second World War, Wedge in May 1946 took a job as a clerk and switchboard operator at a London advertising agency, before joining the UK Navy as
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