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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.

Edward Bear on radio: a beauty or a beast by Ben Fong-Torres, Radio Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, July 20, 2014 At the KSAN reunion: Richard Gossett...

It's the date of birth for singers Buddy Knox and Kim Carnes, and actresses Diana Rigg and Natalie Wood. Bllboard published its first comprehensive hit singles list, the first astronauts walked on the moon, Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' was released, and The Carpenters' summer variety series debuted on NBC-TV. Ending their lives were news anchor Frank Reynolds and sportscaster Bill Flemming, Star Trek's James Doohan, Morty Nevins of The Three Suns, and wireless inventor Guglielmo Marconi. These and scores more milestones detailed INSIDE.

In this interview, the Group in question opposes billboard advertising in Chinese even in places like Richmond with over 90% of the population being of chinese descent. The Group also has contempt towards the likes of Jim Pattison and the Free Enterprise System.... Come inside, read and listen to the clip...