Dale Patterson lives and loves the media, be it print, broadcast, online or publishing. A graduate of Ryerson University's journalism program, Patterson started his journalism career in 1974 as an editor in the sports department of The Canadian Press in Toronto. In 1975, he moved to the radio side of CP as an editor-reporter at Broadcast News in Toronto. In 1988, after 12-and-a-half years as a sports editor and reporter at BN, the Toronto native moved back to the print side at CP as an editor on the Business Information Wire (also known as The Canadian Press Information Network).In 1998, Patterson transferred to CP's Editorial Services Desk, where he wrote and edited for Cablestream, CP's cable news service. He moved to CP Online in 2002 and added Broadcast News editing duties in 2004. To that, he added duties on the World Desk on 2008. After 35 years and seven months at CP-BN, Patterson retired from the national news agency in 2010.Patterson first worked in broadcasting as an operator at CKFH Toronto in 1974-75, staying just long enough to witness the switchover from oldies to country. From 1985 to 1988 and again in 1990, he hosted a weekly oldies show called The Gold Mine at CING-FM (FM 108) in Burlington, Ont. He continued this weekly show at CFMU-FM in Hamilton, Ont. from 1992 to 1994. In 2019, he began "Forgotten '45s", a weekly radio show at Northumberland 89.7 in Northumberland County.Since 1996, Patterson has also published an extensive web site which focuses on the history of Canadian and U.S. rock radio. Rock Radio Scrapbook, Canada's Aircheck Archive, is one of the largest of its kind in the world.Patterson's first book, "What Time of Day Was That?: History by the Minute"​, was published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in February 2001. The book focuses on the time of day events took place in world history, what Patterson calls "the third dimension of history."​ In March 2013, Fifteen Minutes of Fame: History's One-Hit Wonders, about people who were very famous for a very short time. was published by Red Deer Publishing in 2013. Then, in September 2019, Dale completed his trilogy as Red Deer published "Close, But No Cigar": Runnersups, Nearly-Weres and Also-Rans. His book won the bronze medal for humour in the 24th annual Independent Book Awards for 2020.