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The Foundation has donated $2 million dollars to NMC and $1 million to CKUA Radio to create the “Calgary Foundation CKUA Studio” which will find its home in the restored King Eddy Hotel wing of the Centre

The secret is out ... five of Canada's biggest radio groups used Voltair to boost 2015 Spring PPM rating results. (Steve Kowch)

While Van Patten first rose to fame as family dad Tom Bradford on the 1977-81 hit show Eight is Enough, he had been acting since he was a child, first appearing on Broadway at age 7.

IT WAS JUNE 23rd ... when Chilliwack's first radio station CHWK signed on at 1210 KHz with 5 watts. At first it only broadcast an hour or two a day... When Don McNeill took over as host of Chicago's 'Pepper Pot' program, and renamed it 'The Breakfast Club' which ran on the networks for 35 years... When 'The Jimmy Durante Show' concluded its run on NBC-TV, and 'The Pat Boone Show' ran for the last time on ABC-TV... ...and when 'The David Letterman Show' began its torturous 4-month run on NBC-TV daytime. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The new show will launch July 20, as a live-streamed, no-charge, three-hour program. Episodes will be archived and available to paying subscribers.

Seattle radio icon Dick Curtis shares the stories about his life, not just as one of Seattle’s most popular disc jockeys at KJR in the 60′s and 70′s, but the teaming up with another radio icon Pat O’Day in the promotion and management of bands in the Pacific Northwest and Nationally eventually creating the iconic Concerts West....this is part two of Dicks story with Frank Sinatra. Coming up Bob Dylan.... and much more in this 12 series feature on Puget Sound Radio. Thanks Dick!

Award-winning pioneer radio and television broadcaster Glen Robitaille died today (june 21) in Kamloops at age 97. He began his career as a transmitter operator,...

IT WAS JUNE 22nd ... when radio station KVL 1370/Seattle debuted on the air at 6:30pm with more than 6 hours of musical celebration featuring orchestras playing jazz, classical and Hawaiian music... When the final episode of "You Bet Your Life"/"The Groucho Show" aired on NBC-TV... When the 22-year old Barbra Streisand signed a 10-year contract with CBS-TV worth about $200,000 a year... ..and when the 134th & final episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" aired in North America. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

He worked many years at his first love, radio, as an announcer in various stations, including CKXL Calgary, CJCA Edmonton, CHNL Kamloops, CFUN Vancouver and CISL in Richmond.