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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

IT WAS APRIL 18th ... when future late night TV host Johnny Carson played a bored New Jersey husband with a gift for picking horse-racing winners, in a Playhouse 90 production on CBS-TV... When the reality TV show "Real People" debuted, featuring John Barbour, Sarah Purcell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, and Bill Rafferty... When the TV movie "Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys" aired on ABC... and when Arsenio Hal (pictured)l announced (for the first time) he would end his five-year-old late-night TV talk show the following month... ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

At this weeks RPM Luncheon at the White Spot in Vancouver, was opened with a “welcome”, then Gord Lansdell and Joanna Mileos read the names of our fellow broadcasters who passed away in the past six months. Then it was time to pay our respects to Fred. Speakers included Doc Harris, Bill Reiter, Miles Ramsay, Tom Jeffries and Wayne Cox. At the conclusion of the poignant and fun-filled speeches Wayne read a wonderful note from Fred’s widow Cathy. Much More Inside...

CBC Chair Hubert Lacroix mentions Brian Lilley in this video clip about the corporation

IT WAS APRIL 17th .. when San Francisco radio station KPO (now KNBR) took to the airwaves with 50 watts of power... When writer/producer Wyllis Cooper brought Lights Out to NBC radio for what would be acclaimed as the medium's ultimate horror show... When CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show featured Petula Clark singing "Sign of the Times', and The Animals performing "Don't Bring Me Down"... and when comedian Joey Bishop (pictured) got the opportunity to try to unseat the king of late night, Johnny Carson, courtesy of ABC-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

MOVIN' 92.5 extends its 6+ lead, while KISW continues its climb, now the runnerup.