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CTV Vancouver News Director Les Staff provides us with the latest update with this years event coming up in Vancouver in a few weeks. Come Inside and Register...

IT WAS MARCH 29th when Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time, on newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan's interview show in New York City... When the melodramatic radio serial 'Our Gal Sunday' debuted at 12:45 ET on CBS Radio, where it would remain for the next 22 years!... When the great frequency switch of 1941 sent Vancouver's CKWX 950 to AM 980, CFCT 1450 Victoria became CJVI 1480, and Vancouver's CBR 1100 moved to AM 1130.... When the CBC first announced it would be removing all commercials from its radio stations... and when Jack Paar (pictured) left his wildly-popular NBC-TV 'Tonight Show' after five years. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS MARCH 28th when one of Chicago's great radio stations, WGN 720 first took to the air... When the New York Times classical music station WQXR banned singing commercials from its schedule... When UK pirate radio station Radio Caroline began broadcasting from a ship off the British coast .... And when New Westminster's Raymond Burr (pictured) starred in an NBC movie 'Ironside,' which became (after Perry Mason) his second longrunning TV series. ALL the milestones for March 28th INSIDE.

Former Seattle Symphony cellist Joshua Roman and the classical station’s new-music Web channel plan to increase the channel’s presence with new repertoire and performances, as well a beefier profile on social media.

IT WAS MARCH 27th when 'Blue Ribbon Town,' the radio show that starred Groucho Marx was first heard on CBS.... When the daytime serial 'Myrt & Marge' ended its 11-year run on CBS radio ... When a young Steve McQueen (pictured) made his network TV debut on NBC's Goodyear Playhouse... and when Vancouver's CFUN 1410 once more scrapped its music format to go all talk under the slogan "Talk with Attitude." ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Ian MacKinnon from SUN FM Kelowna is heading to Edmonton to join co-host Chelsea Bird as the new morning team on 104-9 Virgin Radio

"Where we're going with our local services is really prioritizing towards digital," said CBC News general manager Jennifer McGuire. "That's in recognition of where the audience is going – they're migrating to digital, as we know in the news business."

HBO is making Vice, known for an edgy youthful approach, its news source, both on its linear TV channel as well as its new streaming, over-the-top service, HBO Now

Go West Young Man.... Brendan left Central Canada for Alberta to start his radio career... More Inside...