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April 13, 2015 The Chicagoland Radio & Media website reports that the Chicago Local SAG-AFTRA Union fought Cumulus Media Chicago over its use of voice-tracking WLUP and...

IT WAS APRIL 13th .. when the weekly radio crime drama 'Bulldog Drummond' began its 8-year run on the Mutual Broadcast System... When the CRTC's first public hearings on Cable Television were held... When "The Grand Ole Opry," a Saturday night radio staple from Nashville that holds the longevity record for any live broadcast, came to cable TV (Nashville Network) ... and when the cast of "The Andy Griffith Show" reunited for the NBC-TV film "Return To Mayberry." It attracted the largest audience of any TV-movie that year. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Dickerson, currently the network's political director, will take over the anchor desk on the Sunday morning public affairs show from Schieffer this summer, just in time to rev up for the 2016 presidential race

Harker Research has made repeated requests for Arbitron and now Nielsen to reveal test data on issues like reliability of decoding. The company has stonewalled all our requests.

IT WAS APRIL 12th when Canadian broadcaster J. Frank Willis began his legendary 69 hour marathon coverage from a mine surface in Nova Scotia (pictured), after an explosion trapped three miners down below ... When 'The Life of Riley' family comedy was heard for the first time on the CBS radio network, as a Saturday morning half-hour... When CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show featured Brook Benton singing his first hit, "It's Just A Matter Of Time"... and when the first episode of "21 Jump Street" starring a young Johnny Depp, aired on the Fox Network. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS APRIL 11th .. when the first live sports event on radio, a boxing match, was heard blow-by-blow over Pittsburgh's pioneer station KDKA... When hockey play-by-play legend Danny Gallivan (pictured) was born in Montreal... When Lesley Gore and Paul Anka headlined the final broadcast of NBC-TV's pop music showcase, 'Hullabaloo!'... and when the Tommy Hunter Show, after a nearly 27 year run, was seen for the last time on CBC TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

“As soon as he realized we were off the air, he stopped,” said Gailus

Dysart was nominated for the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for four straight years, finally winning the trophy in 1992.

He was best known as the award-winning host of DiscDrive, the national afternoon radio show featuring classical and jazz music which he hosted from Vancouver for 23 years.