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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.

IT WAS APRIL 23rd .. when Lucille Ball made the first of her 34 appearances on the cover of TV Guide ... When Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, and Vicki Carr, with comedian Bob Newhart were Glen Campbell's guests on his weekly CBS-TV variety show... When NBC-TV aired the pilot of 'Baywatch,' the show that introduced the world to Ladysmith BC's Pamela Anderson ... and when Toronto-born conductor/composer Robert Farnon (pictured), who got his start in the 1930's playing trumpet on CBC Radio's "Happy Gang," died in England at age 87. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

On the list of duties for today's on-air talent, blogging should rank near the top. In fact, if I were sitting in a program director's chair right now, I would be reluctant to hire somebody without blogging experience.

Crombie starred as Gilbert Blythe, the love interest of Anne Shirley (played by Megan Follows), in the CBC TV movie Anne of Green Gables in 1985 and its two sequels: