Industry News

Mark Tamaji's Blackgold Broadcasting station, 88.1 The ONE (CKSS-FM) Stony Plain/Spruce Grove, began transmitter testing Tuesday.

As Rogers continued to try to distance themselves from the success Hockey Night had seen on CBC, they kicked to the curb one of the features that made Saturday nights so exciting and entertaining.

IT WAS MAY 14th .. when the Ernie Kovacs Show, a highly innovative TV variety show, debuted on NBC...(Kovacs is pictured)... When CBC TV stations in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto were linked for the first time, the first step in creating a national network ... When Victoria radio station CFAX was sold to Clare G. Copeland, who changed it from a daytime only station to 24/7 at 1070 KHz .. ..and when Paul McCartney and John Lennon were guests on NBC-TV's "Tonight Show" .. but with Joe Garagiola as guest host. ALL the milestones for May 14th INSIDE.

It was the tenth time in in the last 14 surveys that KMQV came in at #1.

The non-governmental Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has no policy against marijuana ads, but then no one has advertised marijuana before.

IT WAS MAY 13th ....when "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch" ended its 16 years as a Sunday afternoon staple on CBS Radio (Gene is pictured)... When the 'Kraft Music Hall,' now starring Milton Berle, ended a record 26 years on NBC radio & TV .... When the game-changing 'Pat Burns Hotline' debuted on AM 600 CJOR in Vancouver ... ..and when the CBC's flagship TV news shows The National and The Journal were moved from 10 pm to 9 pm. (The move was a failure & was soon reversed.) ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

MOViN continues well ahead in 1st place. KRWM drops, KISW moves up. KKWF The Wolf jumps into 3rd in April.

"Letterman is, by any standard, a landmark performer," says Howard Stringer, the executive who brought the comic to CBS in 1993 and put him up in a landmark building on Broadway.