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The News' Chief on Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Brian Williams' Future ("I'd Put Him Back") and His Own.

The rebrand was viewed as another step by the CBC to distance itself from disgraced former “Q” host Jian Ghomeshi.

New Jersey 101.5, had its signal interfered with by a pirate radio station on 101.3. The station conducted its own investigation to track where the illegal transmission was coming from.

Hot 107's Ryder hands out Connor McMuffins

IT WAS APRIL 20th ... when Radio Specialties Ltd opened the predecessor to Vancouver's C-FUN & CKMO using 40 watts of power on 450 meters (666 khz). The studios of CFCQ were at 791 Dunsmuir.... When "Your Hit Parade" debuted on NBC Radio as a one-hour Saturday night program, featuring 15 of the week's top songs... When "The Big Show" with hostess Talullah Bankhead (pictured) completed its two year run on NBC Radio... and when the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting. ALL the broadcast milestones for the date INSIDE.

Norway’s Minister of Culture announced this week that a national FM-radio switch off will commence in 2017, allowing the country to complete its transition over to digital radio. It’s the end of an era.

CHQT was born 50 years ago this year, the brainchild of two relatively-young broadcast veterans at the time, Murray David Dyck and my father, Lewis Ross Roskin, better known as 'Uncle Lew'.

One of the more interesting moves is at CRUZ 95.7 where long time Global Television weather personality Nicola Crosbie will hook up with former Bear afternoon drive guy Lochlin Cross starting Monday, May 11th. Much More Inside...

IT WAS APRIL 19th ... when the Chicago Barn Dance first aired on WLS. In a few short years it became the National Barn Dance on NBC radio... When the ABC Television Network began operations, only in Philadelphia and Washington at first... When New York AM station WINS became the world's first all-news radio outlet... and when our TV screens were filled with images of destruction from Oklahoma City, after a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

there is clear evidence that large numbers of Canadian viewers are cutting the cord on traditional TV. In 2014, there were some 240,000 more households without a paid TV package than a year earlier