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 NEWS RELEASE  2015-08-24 courtesy BroadcasterMagazine.com Continuing its long tradition of helping viewers make informed decisions about the products and issues that affect their pocketbooks, CTV Vancouver...

IT WAS AUG. 24th .. when the CBC's CBX AM1010 signed on with 50,000 watts at Lacombe Alberta, in an ultimately failed attempt to serve both Edmonton and Calgary with one transmitter ... When Montreal-born William Shatner appeared for the first time on the cover of TV Guide, with fellow Star Trek actors Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy ... When a spinoff of the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," "The Facts of Life" debuted on NBC-TV, starting a nine year run.... ..and when NBC TV's Jay Leno was the host as Microsoft officially rolled out their Windows 95 operating system in the Seattle suburb of Redmond. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

Patterson was only 16 years old when she debuted in the role of Wrangler Jane on “F-Troop,” but she’d been acting since the age of 5.

IT WAS AUG. 23rd ...when singers Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, "The Happiness Boys", first appeared on New York's WEAF radio, sponsored by Happiness Candy stores.,, When the BBC's experimental TV service featured the first televised boxing match between Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, almost 15 years before the TV era began ... When Seattle radio station KKND "The End" FM 107.7 was born, billing its music as "The Cutting Edge of Rock." The format helped give birth to Seattle's famed Grunge movement... ..and when Richard Hatch was revealed as the winning castaway on the first season of CBS' "Survivor." ALL the milestones for Aug. 23rd INSIDE!

Jack was with KVI 570 Seattle in its heyday Jack shares this story inside...

IT WAS AUG. 22nd ... when the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began its first experimental TV broadcasting from London... When "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy" became a three-times-a-week 30-minute feature on ABC radio, after 14 years as a daily quarter-hour strip... When Toronto's CBLT-TV Channel 9 did its first test broadcast, covering the opening of the 73rd Canadian National Exhibition... ..and when Vancouver radio station CKLG dropped it's Middle-Of-The-Road programming and switched to a Top 40 format in direct competition with C-FUN. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS AUG. 21st ... that gave us career broadcasters Ken Carpenter, Chris Schenkel, Jack Buck, Harry Smith, and actor Billy Idelsen of the Vic & Sade radio show ... When The Four Preps and the Lionel Hampton Orch. were the musical guests on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show... When NBC News fired their Canadian-born TV reporter Arthur Kent (pictured), nicknamed 'the scud stud' for his reporting during the first Iraq war, after he refused an assignment to war-torn Croatia... ..and when the CRTC approved the sale of Victoria's CKDA and CFMS-FM Victoria, CKDA to the owners of The Q 100.3, CFMS to become 'The Ocean' under Rogers ownership. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

We were saddened to hear of her passing, apparently earlier today.

Robert Thielke created and played in the outrageous late-night Vern Fonk commercials for the last 20 years.

The History Channel launches a six-episode program "Curse of the Frozen Gold" next Wednesday August 26th at 10pm Pacific Daylight Time. Brian Antonson, whom a...