Yup - I thought so, but I didn't want to say something I wasn't 100% sure on. I was thinking I might have confused him with the guy in the Rogers web who convinced them that fixed-wing is the way to go. Darryl Dahmer has been flying over Toronto in a fixed-wing for 680News for over 30 years - I remember hearing him when I was a kid listening to 680CFTR, when it was a top-40 station.
There used to be a clip on Youtube of him explaining why he figured fixed-wing was better for traffic coverage, but I can't find it right now.
I do wish that Calgary traffic reporters would do a little better job, though. I don't know if it's the same in Edmonton as it is here, but here, they go on about how "there's construction at 17th and Stoney" ... what?! no ****, there's a ring road being built there for the next 3 years! Give us information about dynamic changes in traffic flow, not regurgitated press releases about lanes that are going to be blocked for the next 17 months.
This bit is pretty off-topic, but they tested a system either last year or two years ago in Calgary which would be immensely useful, if they would actually deploy it full-time (and if they can get it past the "privacy" panickers). Basically you set up a device in the median of a road with a small computer and a Bluetooth "sniffer". It reads the MAC address of every Bluetooth device that comes in range (tests on the US east coast have seen 6000+/sec inputs with no loss of data). A fixed distance down the road (say, at the next interchange), another device again reads all the MAC addresses that pass by. So if your iPhone in your pocket takes 14 minutes to get from Deerfoot x 32 to Deerfoot x Memorial, they can average that with everyone else and determine/publish exactly how fast/slow traffic is going. Apparently there are dozens of these devices deployed all over the US NE on major interstates (I think I heard that all of NJ's controlled access highways are covered).