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Happy Birthday to John Laroquette, Jill Hennessy, Christina Applegate, Amy Grant, Percy Sledge, and Bing Crosby's widow Kathryn. Texas radio station WTAW aired the first football play-by-play; four decades later, CBS telecast the first NFL game in color; and even much later, CBC-TV aired the Grey Cup game for the last time. Also on this date Seattle got its first TV station, in fact the first station north of San Francisco; CBS cancelled the last 5 daytime serials on radio; Michael J. Fox revealed he had Parkinson's disease and would be leaving 'Spin City'; and CBS televised the TV special 'Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing.' Obits for Nov. 25th include Canadian TV chef Madame Benoit, comedian Flip Wilson, actor Jack Albertson (pictured), dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson, and onetime CKNW staff singer Alberta Slim. Details and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Our friend Christian Hall, PD of X 929 in Calgary proudly announces the hiring of Andrew from Virgin Radio in Edmonton. Come Inside and Read More...

To get an accurate picture of the health of a format we have to look at all markets, not just the biggest ones. Come Inside and Read More...

Jon Abbott is the newly adopted British Columbian who is living his childhood dream as a hockey play-by-play announcer for the Vancouver Canucks.

Our friend Edmonton broadcaster Pat Staron calls it quits... moving into the Insurance business... Come Inside and Read More...

BJ Doyle, now Account Manager at 101.5 Whistler FM digs down deep into his Oldie Doyle collection of reel to reel... Come Inside and Listen to his aircheck

November 24th, 2014 The Vancouver Giants announced Monday that co-owner and former NHL coach Pat Quinn passed away on Sunday night at Vancouver General Hospital...

Journalist Arrested In Ferguson Joe Biggs documents a journalist being arrested on http://www.ustream.tv/realalexjones . Apparently he was standing on the side walk when this occurred

Happy Birthday to Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks, Sarah Hyland, Billy Connolly, Pete Best, and the late Howard Duff. It was the day JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald himself was shot dead by Jack Ruby; radio station KVI started serving Tacoma with 50 watts at 1280 KHz; CBC Vancouver opened its new radio-TV headquarters on Hamilton Street; the private eye show 'Simon & Simon' debuted on CBS-TV; Dusty Springfield and The Muppetts were featured on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show; and Frank Sinatra ended 2 years in retirement with the NBC-TV special 'Old Blue Eyes is Back'. The music world lost Freddie Mercury, Big Joe Turner, and Kiss drummer Eric Carr, and actors Richard Carlson and Pat Morita also passed. Details and ALL the Nov. 24 milestones INSIDE.

As a lifelong radio fan I feel compelled to share with you how happy I am with the Sony ICF-S10MK2, just the best pocket-sized radio I've ever encountered.