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In 1993, CPG (Community Programs Group) began publishing The New Jr. Jays Magazine, an eclectic mix of baseball, sci-fi, health and safety tips, and overt product placement. The magazine was designed to develop the Jays’ younger fan base, and featured comics, baseball articles, interviews with fans and players, and movie, book, and video game reviews. For only five dollars a year, Jr. Jays club members received four issues, a personalized membership card, and several Topps baseball cards. In the words of Ed Conroy, the publisher of The Magazine, a monthly magazine for kids, and a former Jr. Jays writer, "You couldn’t make something like this today."

Have you ever passed by a yard sale, glimpsed a box full of unwanted VHS tapes, and wondered who in the world would want to lug home a pile of grainy CityTV bootlegs from 1987? As it turns out, the answer is Ed Conroy, a Scarborough television buff and editor with kids' monthly The Magazine. Conroy scours the tapes for pieces of the Toronto area's broadcast heritage, which he posts to his wonderfully nostalgic YouTube channel, Retrontario.