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Billy Joel gave his 100th concert at Madison Square Garden. In 1975, CKVU-TV was licensed as Vancouver’s third television station. It signed on 14 months later. Bruce Springsteen joined Joel onstage. Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler were ordered to pay their former chef compensation after losing a sexual discrimination case in the UK

Broadcaster Arthur Gordon “Art” Linkletter was born in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. Two solo artists debuted their first singles, Rod Stewart with “Maggie Mae,” and Bill Withers‘ “Ain’t No Sunshine.” Both became major hits. Much More Inside...

“Music and the Spoken Word” debuted on KSL Salt Lake City. the UK’s Official Singles Chart, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was declared Britain’s favorite #1 of all-time, after a nationwide poll by ITV. Bob Dylan (pictured) made the only Canadian stop of his 27-city tour with a Toronto concert at the Molson Amphitheatre ... Much More Inside...

IT WAS JULY 15th … when “Music and the Spoken Word” debuted on KSL Salt Lake City. It is still heard today on radio & TV & online... When radio station CKLN 1420 first went on the air in Nelson, B.C…. When 24-year old singer Patti Page made her TV debut in a CBS summer replacement series for Perry Como.. When ‘One Life to Live’ began its 42-year run on ABC-TV daytime... ..and when cable news network MSNBC began operations in Secaucus, New Jersey, a joint project of Microsoft & NBC TV. ALL the milestones for July 15th INSIDE.

IT WAS JULY 14th ... when satirist Stan Freberg (pictured) debuted a weekly sketch comedy series on CBS Radio; it ran for 15 unsponsored weeks.... When one of the shock jock's early forays into TV, "The Howard Stern Summer Show" premiered on WWOR-TV in New York City... When TV trash-talk show host Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio... ..and when two distinguished network news anchors, CBS's Douglas Edwards and NBC's John Chancellor, were born. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS JULY 13th .. when Allan Slaight bought rocker CFOX in Montreal and within two weeks turned its music to Country .. When BBC Radio banned “No One Is Innocent” by the Sex Pistols…. When sportscaster Howard Cosell said that he was “tired of being tied to the football mentality” and asked to be released from duties on ABC’s Monday Night Football… ..and when Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler (pictured) announced he was leaving FOX-TV’s American Idol after two seasons, to focus his attention back on the band. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS JULY 12th .. when the Toronto Daily Star’s pioneering radio station CFCA had its Grand Opening. Foster Hewitt broadcast his first hockey game on CFCA seven months later. .. When The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard for the first time, on ABC Radio. Howard Duff (pictured) starred as the San Francisco detective in the summer replacement series which quickly won a year-round following … When PBS began airing concerts by the Boston Pops Orchestra… …and when the daytime game show “Family Feud” premiered on ABC-TV with Richard Dawson as host. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Actors Tab Hunter and Sela Ward, announcer Harry Von Zelll and Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd were born on July 11th. Elvis had his final Sun Records session, Mac Davis debuted his summer CBS-TV variety show, Rupert Holmes hosted NBC-TV’s Midnight Special, and Frank Sinatra got married for the 4th time. Orson Welles debuted his Mercury Theatre players as a weekly prime time feature of CBS radio. Obits this date include Vancouver talk radio host Gary Bannerman (pictured), composer George Gershwin, singers Helen Forrest and Frances Langford, actors Laurence Olivier and Ray Collins, and iconic New York Yankee P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard. All the milestones for July 11th are INSIDE.

IT WAS JULY 10th … when a radio show of international intrigue ‘The Man Called X,’ debuted on CBS radio, beginning an 8-year run on the networks …. When New York’s WINS Radio announced the hiring of pioneer rock deejay Alan Freed to be the host of their “Rock ‘n’ Roll Party’… When the longtime radio hit ‘Your Hit Parade’ debuted on NBC-TV, starring two Canadian female vocalists, Dorothy Collins & Gisele MacKenzie (pictured)…. When the short-lived “Gladys Knight & the Pips” Summer Series premiered on NBC-TV… .. and when Victoria’s first radio station CJVI AM900 cut costs by dropping its talk shows and went back to playing hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s. ALL the milestones for July 10th are found INSIDE.

A lot of radio personalities are initially attracted to the medium because of the music. But some hosts, like Sylvia Alvarado, go far beyond a passing interest.