Roundhouse Radio Announces Line-up of New Program Hosts!
an incredible slate of on-air talent has been lined up, including journalist/Radioman Kirk Lapointe and Terry David Mulligan to get shows on the future Roundhouse Radio 98.3
Nielsen Will Not Support Voltair
NIELSEN will not support VOLTAIR. But the company also announced coming enhancements to its own technology that could help enhance detection of the watermarks.
Garrison Keillor Announces 2016 Retirement
Keillor said his final 'Prairie Home Companion' will be in July 2016. In September of next year, the show’s new host, musician Chris Thile, will take over.
TUESDAY in Broadcast History .. July 21st
It’s the date that gave us Marshall McLuhan, Don Knotts, Robins Williams and Kay Starr.
The CRTC gave approval to the Global TV network, “I Walk the Line” started 8 weeks atop the Country Music chart, Queen played the Montreal Forum, and Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart insured her legs for $2 million.
Leaving us on July 21st were actors Basil Rathbone and Robert Young, broadcaster Dave Garroway, singer Dorothy Collins, and musician Long John Baldry.
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Art Bell, blazing new trails at 70
Art Bell said "We announced it just as an Internet radio show. Well, gosh! Radio stations began to call us asking to carry it. I couldn't think of any real reason to say no. I didn't ever anticipate it.
Vista to launch Creston station August 7th
94.1 Juice FM will provide Creston with hourly news throughout the week along with local sports, weather, road reports and community events. The new radio station launches Friday August 7th at 1PM...
MONDAY in Broadcast History .. July 20th
IT WAS JULY 20th ... when NBC radio debuted 'G-Men' as a Saturday night feature. For most of its 20-year run the title was 'Gangbusters'...
When "The Arthur Murray Party" premiered on ABC TV, featuring the man behind a nationwide chain of dance schools and his wife Kathryn. As it continued its 10-year run on the tube it would move to DuMont, CBS, & NBC...
When UBC's student-operated radio station CiTR-FM broadcast in stereo for the first time....
..and when Vancouver-born actor James Doohan (pictured), best known for playing Scotty on Star Trek, died at his home in suburban Seattle at age 85.
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Cosby Admitted ‘Offering Women Money’ for Silence After Sex
Bill Cosby is reported as saying in the deposition he was skilled in reading women's reactions: "I think I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them."
SUNDAY in Broadcast History .. July 19th
IT WAS JULY 19th .. when Regina's pioneer radio station CKCK signed on with 2000 watts at 420 metres. ..
When the BBC World Service began frequent playing of the first notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony as Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign...
When Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon (pictured), began its 9-year run on CBS radio...
..and when Vancouver's CJNW-730 signed on with modern rock and no DJs, preparatory to introducing its ill-fated MOJO format, talk radio for males, three weeks later.
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