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Degrassi will kick off a two-week finale on July 20 on MTV Canada. The finale will feature 12 half-hour episodes.

IT WAS JUNE 4th .... when NBC-TV's "The Monkees'' won an Emmy award for outstanding comedy series. When ABC-TV's "Bobby Sherman TV Special" aired, featuring guest performers The 5th Dimension... When the final episode of "The Waltons" aired on CBS TV, though six TV movies followed over the next 15 years ... .. and when the final episode of the sitcom "Married With Children" aired on FOX. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

In 2004 she became the first woman to host the Met's Saturday broadcasts. That same year, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

https://youtu.be/H_8y0WLm78U PUBLIC SHAMING - In this video, one of the most publicly shamed persons, Monica Lewinsky, talks about the effect of public shaming...

IT WAS JUNE 3rd ...when Dragnet (with Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday) was first heard on radio (KFI in Los Angeles), a month before it went nationak on NBC... When the Hollywood Palace on ABC-TV hosted the first North American performance by The Rolling Stones... When the characters of Nancy & Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV's 'As the World Turns', after an absence of 5 years... and when the final episode of the original 'Star Trek' series aired on NBC. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

His present employer, Sirius XM (SIRI) satellite radio, recently became the target of Stern's ire. He was upset that, according to him, they had agreed to a later start for his regular live broadcast, but then conditioned this upon his renewing his current contract with them. Stern has strongly hinted that he won’t do so.

MSNBC notably sunk below the 100,000-viewer mark in the key demo for total day, falling to an average 83,000 adults 25-54. That means that for the past year, MSNBC's daily demo average has ranked below the historic fourth-place net:

The far left needs a gimmick to mask its intentions. We got a gimmick with the first black president — an abject failure. So Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley can forget it – they’re just plain old white guys

Although non-industry media often confuse the two, radio industry folks understand that there are “news” shows and ‘Talk about the news” shows — in fact, it’s the whole basis for “News/Talk” radio.

The letter says a host on the station promoted a Vancouver marijuana dispensary during a segment last month. The CKNW host at the centre of the letter from Health Canada is Justin Wilcomes.