Ray Sonin (23 June 1907–20 August 1991) was a British-born broadcaster on Toronto radio station CFRB who hosted several popular programs, including Calling All Britons and Down Memory Lane.
Under Sonin's editorship, the newspaper was relaunched as The 'New' Musical Express in March 1952 and began publishing artist interviews, industry gossip, and compiled a top 20 list based on record sales.
His misfortune with the Canadian music magazine was a blessing to his estimated 100,000 listeners, who tuned into Toronto radio station CFRB 1010 for his program Calling All Britons at 4:10 pm every Saturday for three hours of music, news and sports from the United Kingdom.
Long before Beatlemania swept the globe he is credited as the first program host in North America to play the Fab Four in the fall or early winter of 1962.
[3] His widow, June Sonin, brought Calling All Britons back to the airwaves in 1993, co-hosting it on CHWO with Ken Stanley until her own death in 1999.