Industry News

Got screwed? Get Jesse. It’s an entire news franchise in four words. And few American TV newsies do it with more exuberant panache than Seattle TV's Jesse Jones.

An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances in which he is thought to have fabricated, misrepresented or embellished his accounts.

IT WAS APRIL 25th .. when the future iconic broadcast news pioneer Edward. R. Murrow (pictured) was born in North Carolina... When the New York experimental TV station that preceded WCBS aired the first circus on television.... When Vancouver's CKST AM 1040 dropped its adult contemporary format and began airing commercial free Classic Rock, enroute to adopting an all-sports format two weeks later... and when the TV-movie "Dukes Of Hazzard: Reunion!" aired on CBS, 12 years after the series left the air. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Glen was a staff announcer at CKWX Vancouver from 1934 to 1942. After the death last year of 100-year old Peter Stursburg he is believed to be the oldest surviving Canadian radio broadcaster. The video salute to Glen has been completed and aired tonight at 5 pm on CFJC-TV. It is available 'on demand' at the 14 minute mark of the 5 pm newscast, which is posted for online viewing at the station's website.

IT WAS APRIL 24th .. when Jack Webb introduced his short-lived pre-Dragnet detective-adventure radio show Johnny Madero: Pier 23 on Mutual, with Gale Gordon and William Conrad in the cast ... When Dick Powell (pictured) appeared for the first time as 'Richard Diamond, Private Detective' on NBC radio... When 'X-Minus One', a quality show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC radio, offering some of the best drama of the era... and when 'Your Hit Parade' ended after a nine-year run on NBC TV and many more years on network radio. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

In a sometimes angry series of comments, the journalists told NBC News President Deborah Turness that Williams’s embellished statements about his reporting exploits had damaged NBC’s credibility and that he should not be permitted to return to the anchor chair.

Shares of Comcast Corp. were up in late-afternoon trading in the wake of a report from Bloomberg saying the Philadelphia company was likely to drop its months-long quest to absorb Time Warner Cable.

Zack Hewitt, (KOOL FM), Bob Steele (XL103) and Tim Morgan (Q107 talk with Phoenix and Kate about the industry locally...

David Letterman: A Life on Television will air on May 4 and will be hosted by Ray Romano, whose long-running CBS sitcom was produced by Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated.

The longtime children's performer had a rare form of cancer, her son said.