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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.

“He had everybody fooled,” said former NBC employee Frank Scotti in an exclusive interview with the N.Y. Daily News. “Nobody suspected.”

It's the date that gave birth to Miley Cyrus, Robin Roberts, John Dehner, Ruth Etting and Boris Karloff. The forerunner to Vancouver's CKWX radio was licensed as CFDC in Nanaimo; already a hit on TV, 'Have Gun Will Travel' debuted on CBS Radio; Bob Hope's final TV special aired on NBC-TV; 'Doctor Who' had its premiere on BBC-TV; Ronald and Nancy Reagan co-starred in a 30-minute 'GE Theatre' on CBS-TV; and Bon Jovi played three numbers on NBC-TV's 'Today Show.' Passing away were Larry Hagman, Gloria Gordon ('Our Miss Brooks'), Marie Wilson ('My Friend Irma')(pictured), Western Swing's Spade Cooley, and country music's Roy Acuff. Details and ALL the Nov. 23rd milestones INSIDE.

“My favourite job was being a copywriter,” he says. “I couldn’t believe I was getting paid for something I loved — writing.” Come Inside and Read More...

It was a stark contrast to announcements that performances in Oklahoma, Nevada, Illinois, Arizona, South Carolina and Washington State, were called off as more women came forward and accused entertainer of sexually assaulting them many years ago.

Happy Birthday to Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mariel Hemingway, Robert Vaughn, Terry Gilliam, Richard Kind and Steve Van Zandt. President Kennedy was assassinated, and broadcasters went to wall-to-wall coverage for 4 days; the first televised interracial kiss occurred on NBC's Star Trek; Woody Allen was the subject of a 60 Minutes interview about his affair with Mia Farrow's adoptive daughter; Ted Koppel anchored his final 'Nightline' on ABC-TV; and the same network aired the 100th episode of 'Who's the Boss.' Obits include Parley Baer, Michael Conrad, Jazz's Norman Granz, and down east musician John Allan Cameron. ALL the milestones for Nov. 22nd INSIDE.

It appears Vancouver's QM FM jumped first into full time Christmas music at 9 o'clock this morning, followed by Edmonton's Capital FM at 3 pm...