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It estimates Netflix will have six million Netflix Canada subscribers

IT WAS APRIL 14th .. when Robert Ripley hosted his first 'Believe It or Not Broadcast' on NBC, the beginning of an 18 year radio run... When WGN radio carried the first play-by-play broadcast of a regular season Chicago Cub baseball game... When piano virtuoso Van Cliburn (pictured) appeared on US national TV for the first time, as Jack Paar's guest on NBC-TV's 'Tonight Show'... and when CBS-TV aired the Johnny Cash special 'Spring Fever' in prime time, with guests Waylon Jennings, June Carter Cash, and Rosanne Cash. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

This upcoming week, the first in the six-week countdown to the May 20 finale, will feature Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured), always a Letterman favorite, as well as his boss Leslie Moonves' wife and The Talk co-host Julie Chen, along with Masters champion Jordan Spieth, Comedians' star Billy Crystal, Michael J. Fox, Paul Blart's Kevin James, Alec Baldwin and John Mayer.

Alex says Good Bye to Edmonton, and Hello to Calgary in his recent move to Jack FM debuting this afternoon....

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.