Legendary Soul Singer Bobby Womack Dies at 70
Womack began his career as a member of Curtis Womack and the Womack Brothers, who were signed to SAR Records by Sam Cooke.
Dan McAllister’s retirement party
Radio Veteran Dan McAllister calls it a day after 50 years in the industry...
Ed Bain, I should have included that The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group also gave Dan and his wife Helen an Alaskan Cruise in appreciation of his 27 years of service…1st class send off indeed.
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Why Talent Matters
Radio personalities can build a bigger social fan base than their actual station's social accounts – because they are human.
On-air talent recognize that fans use social platforms to record their personal "timelines," and share what matters to them. So often, it's a DJ's social behavior that draws fans to the station.
Shakeup at ‘The View’: Sherri Shepherd, Jenny McCarthy Sacked
The 'firings' were said to have been announced during a network meeting late Thursday afternoon.
Radio Coach: ‘Winning the PPM Game’
I heard more than one News/Talk GM describe PPM as "People Prefer Music."
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. June 27th
It's the birthdate of Captain Kangaroo and Khloe Kardashian, and also gave birth to an ABC-TV soap called "Loving."
Red Robinson held his first rock concert at the Kerrisdale Arena starring Bill Haley, Elvis began taping his first TV special, and Billy J. Kramer guested on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Hugh Grant was arrested for 'lewd behaviour' with an L.A. prostitute, and John Lennon was finally granted his Green Card.
Gale Storm and Don Grady and Canadian teen idol Terry Black breathed their last, as did the TV shows Miami Vice, The Flip Wilson Show, and the NBC Matinee Theatre.
Details of these and dozens more milestones for June 27th INSIDE.
CBC plans massive staff cuts as it shifts to mobile-first strategy
The public broadcaster’s president and CEO, Hubert Lacroix, unveiled the new five-year plan to staff in a tense town hall Thursday afternoon. Dubbed “A space for us all,” the strategy includes cutting 1,000 to 1,500 jobs by 2020, scaling back some local evening newscasts from 90 minutes to 30, and shifting more resources from TV and radio to web broadcasting.
Birth of The Bridge: Remembering a Format Flip from Yesteryear
Puget Sound Radio's Donovan Tildesley was there in 1994, listening to a local Vancouver radio station event when Jim Pattison's Rock Station CHRX 600 was going to flip to a christian music station, and this young blind man was also listening from the golf links with his dad... come inside, read and listen to the actual launch...
RIP Alf Spence, Longtime CBC Vancouver Audio Tech
Alf Spence, a 35 year man with the mother Corp, succumbed to cancer June 23 in Vancouver at age 90.
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. June 26th
It's the birthday of PSR's Michael Easton, along with Peter Lorre, Nick Offerman, Pat Morita, and the late Col. Tom Parker.
Ted Rogers Sr. introduced the revolutionary A/C vacuum tube, Bill Hughes hosted Roving Reporter show #12,000 on CKNW, the Rolling Stones released their first #1 hit in Britain, and WNEW-FM was the 1st station anywhere to play the eight-minute version of Don McLean's 'American Pie.'
Fred Allen hosted his last radio show under his own name, Edward R. Murrow carried out his 500th and final 'Person to Person' interview, and Baywatch star David Hasselhoff checked himself into rehab.
All the milestones for June 26th INSIDE.
