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The veteran sportscaster who delivered sports news on CFRB, Toronto, (CKWX, CJOR, CKDA and CJAV before that) plus play-by-play on Canadian radio and television for more than five decades, has passed away. He was 85.

“We’re thrilled to continue broadcasting CBS’s ‘Late Show’ from New York and call the Ed Sullivan Theater its home,” said CBS CEO Les Moonves, who announced the decision to keep the show close to its roots in a joint announcement with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The date gave us radio stars Don Imus and Robert W. Morgan, actors Woody Harrelson and Arthur Treacher, and game show host Bert Convy. Telstar enabled the first live TV show from the US to Europe, The Gene Autry Show aired the first its 91 TV episodes, Drew Carey was announced as the successor to Bob Barker on 'The Price is Right', San Antonio got the first AM Stereo radio station, and Neil Young's first recording session took place in a Winnipeg radio station. Obits include actors Van Heflin and Vic Morrow, musicians Kay Kyser and Myron Floren, newsman Daniel Schorr and singer Amy Winehouse. Details and all the July 23rd milestones INSIDE.

The Jack Webster Foundation today announced that Global BC reporter Brian Coxford, will receive the 2014 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Annual Jack Webster Awards Dinner on October 29, 2014. The dinner, featuring National Post columnist and CBC commentator Andrew Coyne, will also honour the past year's best journalists with coveted Webster statues in 13 news categories.

Born this date were Jeopardy's Alex Trebek, actors Orson Bean, David Spade and Albert Brooks, and singers Don Henley and Margaret Whiting. A second Kelowna radio station was licensed, Vancouver's CKVU became City-TV, Buddy Holly had his first Nashville recording session, and Diana Ross headlined a concert in New York's Central Park. Signing off forever were kiddies' TV favorites J. P. Patches and Miss Frances, actors Estelle Getty and Dennis Farina, the Marlboro Man, and Canadian radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden. All the entertainment milestones for July 22nd INSIDE.

DJs offered to sell photos of their genitals in return for cash donations. For $20 dollars, the students would make the sexually explicit photos available on Snapchat. Read More INSIDE...

 By Lucas Shaw, TheWrap.com   July 21, 2014 @ 1:08 pm The streaming service added more subscribers than it previously projected .Netflix now possesses more than 50...

It's the date that gave us Marshall McLuhan, Don Knotts, Robins Williams and Kay Starr. The CRTC gave approval to the Global TV network, "I Walk the Line" started 8 weeks atop the Country Music chart, Queen played the Montreal Frum, and Mary Hart insured her legs for $2 million. Leaving us on July 21st were actors Basil Rathbone and Robert Young, broadcaster Dave Garroway, singer Dorothy Collins, and musician Long John Baldry. Scores more milestones for the date INSIDE.

The head of a Washington state funeral home that had initial responsibility for radio personality Casey Kasem says he personally made sure his remains were put on a flight to Montreal last Monday. The president of the Gaffney Funeral Home of Tacoma says he confirmed the remains arrived in Montreal and media reports suggesting they have disappeared are not true.

James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western 'Maverick' led to a stellar career in TV and films such as The Rockford Files and his Oscar-nominated Murphy’s Romance, has died. There was no immediate word on a specific cause of death. Garner had suffered a stroke in May 2008, just weeks after his 80th birthday.