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Former CBC Host Jo-Ann Roberts Seeks Federal Green Party Nom. in...

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courtesy THE CANADIAN PRESS  JANUARY 24, 2015 03:55 PM. Former CBC host Jo-Ann Roberts poses with Green Party party leader Elizabeth May in Victoria on Saturday...

Rumours from the slopes

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Reporting high atop the Mountain of Whistler and some changes and debuts in the works Come Inside for More...

SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. Jan. 24th

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Vancouver radio station CKWX (AM980) opened a new 5,000 watt transmitter on Lulu Island (now Richmond.) The UK's 'The Animals' and ventriloquist Shari Lewis headlined CBS-TV's 'Ed Sullivan Show.' It was also Jan. 24th when legendary Canadian broadcaster and author Peter Gzowski lost his battle with emphysema at age 67. ALL the milestones for Jan. 24th INSIDE.

Millennials Don’t Trust Media, Or Anything Else

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“The rejection of traditional media as inauthentic comes part-and-parcel with the trend of Millennials discarding other norms accepted by previous generations Come Inside and Read More...

TV’s Instant Replay Innovator Tony Verna Dead at 81

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Tony Verna always enjoyed recounting the high-risk/high-reward scheme he concocted as an aggressive, driven 29-year-old producer at CBS covering the high-profile 1963 Army-Navy college football game.

Dan Rather: Entertainment Has Overwhelmed News Values

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Dan is optimistic that somehow, some way, the pendulum may swing just a little bit back to what I call ‘quality news of integrity Come Inside and Read More...

The Biggest Canadian Sites On Facebook

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The Biggest Canadian, French and German Sites On Facebook Come Inside and View for More...

Why Should you continue to stream?

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“This isn’t a referendum on radio formats, but rather a better understanding of the part that radio plays in the music consumption scheme of its listeners… Come Inside and Read More...

THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Jan. 22nd

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CKNW threw the switch boosting power from 250 to 1,000 watts on 1320 KHz. One of Irna Phillips' early daytime dramas 'The Right to Happiness' moved from the NBC Blue network to CBS radio. The hilarious 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh In' began as a weekly series on NBC -TV. And New Westminster's Raymond Burr starred for the 1st time as Captain Lee Quince in the debut of "Fort Laramie" on CBS radio. ALL the milestones for Jan. 22nd INSIDE.

Ramsey Takes Radio’s Digital Dollars Pulse

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Mark Ramsey reports that radio managers in the nation’s Top 50 markets are anticipating a “dramatic rise” in digital revenue Mark will be one of the speakers at this springs BCAB in Penticton... Come Inside and Read More...