Industry News

IT WAS AUG. 8th ... when the one-week-old US cable channel MTV aired its first concert in stereo, starring REO Speedwagon in a performance at Denver... When two jurors from the Michael Jackson molestation trial were interviewed on NBC's 'Today' show. They admitted to the national audience they now wished they'd returned a guilty verdict... When Lamont Tilden (pictured), one of the best known CBC announcers and news readers in the Golden Age of Canadian radio, and the early years of television, died at age 98... ..and when 16-year old Brian Hyland went to No.1 on the Billboard pop singles chart with 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.' ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The grieving mother of television personality Chris Hyndman believes her only child fell to his death while sleepwalking on the terrace of his penthouse apartment.

Wrapping up over a decade and a half as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show last night, host/anchor Jon Stewart welcomed a bevy of guests to say goodbye, including just about everyone who was ever a correspondent on the faux news and talk program

Seriously? The first question to Donald Trump is why he hates women? Isn't that like opening your TV news show with a smear question like, "When did you stop beating your wife?"

IT WAS AUG. 6th ... when just months before the US was pulled into WWII, WNBT, Channel 4 in New York City, broadcast TV's first audience-participation show in which studio guests played charades.... When Martin Kane, Private Eye was first heard on Mutual radio.... When 16-year-old Paul Anka (pictured) made his U.S. television debut on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, lip-synching to his first hit "Diana"... ..and when the reality series Gene Simmons' Family Jewels had its premiere on the A&E cable network. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Summer Fun Promotions with Victoria's ZONE...

A ‘great’ General Manager does many things to make a radio station highly successful. Leadership is everything.

Brad Dryden is the New morning man at 101.5 KOOL FM Calgary starts his new gig Next Week....

IT WAS AUG. 6th ... when one of radio's first serials, Real Folks debuted on NBC radio... When singer Dinah Shore started her own Sunday evening show on the NBC Blue radio network. Later Dinah would also have a successful TV career spanning more than three decades... When Chubby Checker appeared on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show (ABC TV) and introduced ‘The Twist’... ..and after establishing himself on Mexican border powerhouses, Wolfman Jack (pictured) debuted on WNBC Radio New York. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.