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Happy Birthday today to Luke Perry, David Morse, Joan Cusack, Emily Deschanel, Jane Krakowski and Daryl Hall. The 'American Album of Familiar Music' began its long Sunday night run on NBC radio; Hugh Downs left both 'NBC-tv's 'Today show' and Concentration' for a year off; Canada's first hockey telecast aired in French on Montreal's CBFT; Rod Stewart got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind' began its 12-week run atop the charts; and Bob Dylan played Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum. Bowing out this date sadly were CBS newsman Douglas Edwards, ventriloquist Wayland Flowers, singers Connee Boswell, Tex Williams and Russ Hamilton, and actor/sportscaster Gil Stratton Jr. Details and ALL the Oct. 11th milestones INSIDE.

Brook Ward had been methodically building a loyal audience on his two-hour Saturday and Sunday late-night 'Sports Weekend', one of the last established forms of sports programming on the station. But that was cancelled earlier this week.

10/08/14 - The Jet KJR-FM 95.7 Seattle morning show host Jodi Brothers has announced on The Jet's Facebook page that Marty Riemerwill be joining her on a.m. drive.  The two were formerly...

By Sports Columnist ART THIEL. FOX so wants to own a station in Seattle market that they bought one in Bellingham as leverage against KCPQ’s owners. Losers could be some South Sound Seahawks fans.

“Say the words ‘conservative radio’ to most young people today and they’ll likely come up with a name like Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck,” writes Watson Come Inside and Read More...

Mike was a face very familiar to West Coast TV viewers in the 1970's.

Born this date were Helen Hayes, Peter Coyote, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ben Vereen, Tanya Tucker, Mario Lopez, David Lee Roth and Thelonious Monk. The first of 165 episodes of '77 Sunset Strip' aired on ABC-TV; 'Zorro' and later 'The Geena Davis Show' also had their premieres on ABC. Frank Sinatra recorded his iconic 'Come Fly With Me'; The Supremes appeared for the 1st time on CBS-TV's 'Ed Sullivan Show'; Queen released 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as a single; Neil Diamond scored his first #1 hit with 'Cracklin' Rosie'; the BBC inexplicably banned the PG-rated 'Monster Mash'; and Victoria got country music back when CKXM AM1200 signed on, replacing CKDA. Obits Oct 10th include Redd Foxx, Eddie Cantor, Christopher Reeve, Alex Karras, Solomon Burke, and announcer Tony Marvin. Details and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

This past Tuesday, Red Robinson's RPM Luncheon took place Come Inside and Read More...

Jan Hooks, best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, died on Thursday in New York at the age of 57, her representative, Lisa Lieberman, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

Dale Smith, the morning news anchor at CFCW Camrose/Edmonton, is calling it quits –- after 47 and a-half years doing news at the station