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Happy Birthday to Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart and Adam Beach. Also born Nov. 11th were Jonathan Winters, LaVern Baker and Robert Ryan. This was the day that radio star Kate Smith first sang 'God Bless America'; the juvenile adventure 'Mandrake the Magician' debuted on New York's WOR Radio; NBC-TV aired the first movie with an AIDS theme, 'An Early Frost'; the first video recorder was demonstrated in Los Angeles and Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees guested on NBC-TV's 'Boy Meets World'. 'Rocky and his Friends' debuted as a TV cartoon show, and Courtenay's CFCP Radio flipped to FM to become 'Magic FM.' Obits include Shirley Mitchell, Jane Ace, Dayton Allen, and the voice of the Cleveland Indians Herb Score. Details INSIDE.

"The CBC conducting its own investigation is like putting a fox in charge of solving an abused-chicken case."

Glenn Beck says because of a neurological disease, doctors have told him he has 5-10 years, after which he would not be able to function. He'd started having seizures.

Yes, it says Obama, as in, President Barack Obama. CNN clearly meant the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and corrected the mistake in less than a minute.

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A full house at CICADA (11/09) in LOS ANGELES as the NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME induction ceremony moved from its traditional home in CHICAGO for this year's induction of eight of radio's best during a live radio broadcast and dinner show.

The CRTC may simply be bowing to political realities. Earlier proposals to force U.S. companies to subsidize Canadian content were slammed as a “Netflix tax,” while Netflix and Google have been emphatic they will not be regulated like traditional TV.

It's the day of birth for Miranda Lambert, Tracy Morgan, Mackenzie Phillips, plus the late Richard Burton, Jane Froman, Billy May, and (pictured) announcer George Fenneman. 'The Magnificent Montague' debuted on NBC as the last original sitcom of the network radio era; Canada's Board of Broadcast Governors was created to replace the CBC as the industry regulator; 'Sesame Street' debuted on the predecessor to PBS in the US; Canada's national 10-station radio news network closed down, bankrupt; and singer Jose Feliciano appeared in a dramatic role on NBC-TV's 'MacMillan and Wife.' Leaving this mortal coil were Seattle's voice of baseball Dave Niehaus , actors Jack Palance, Laraine Day and Chuck Connors, and BC broadcaster and station owner Joe Chesney, Details INSIDE.

the job cuts have been almost too frequent to keep track of – they seem to come as often as snowstorms in a Montreal winter. Come Inside and Read More...

Al Ford spent his early years in Victoria with the Q and the Zone Come Inside and Read More...