Veteran CBC News Anchor/Executive Knowlton Nash Dead at 86
Knowlton Nash, a decorated Canadian journalist who went from selling newspapers as a boy in Toronto to serving a decade as anchor of CBC's The National, has died at age 86. Details INSIDE. (Click on the headline.)
SUNDAY in Broadcast History .. May 25th
May 25th was the birthdate of publisher/TV panellist Bennett Cerf, singer Ginny Simms and sportscaster Lindsay Nelson. It saw the last first-run TV episode of "Home Improvement," and the last breath of "Match Game" legend Charles Nelson Reilly.
Also this date Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Jay Leno and Elton John made entertainment headlines.
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SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. May 24th
It's "Happy Birthday" today to Tommy Chong, Bob Dylan, Patty Labelle and Priscilla Presley. Nanaimo got its first radio station, CHUB AM 1570 on this date, while TV shows "Mad About You," " The Dean Martin Show" and "Designing Women" bid us adieu.
Also breathing their last on May 24th were bandleader Duke Ellington, comic Dick Martin, Canadian fiddling star King Ganam and British comic actress Hermione Gingold.
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Peter Mansbridge’s Future Clouded .. with Rest of the CBC
It's a good read in the pages of the Toronto Star .. about the inconspicuous guy in his favorite diner who is only recognizable via his rumbling baritone.
Fascinating too is how Mansbridge was discovered in 1968 as a baggage handler in Churchill Manitoba, who was pressed into making a flight call on the airport PA .. and the next night was on CBC radio.
The budget shortfall, the termination of hundreds of CBC employees, and the uncertain future after the network loss of Hockey Night in Canada... that's what has Mansbridge worried.
They Crossed The Line…
Corporate radio Now has a zero tolerance for over-the-top offensive Shock Jock comments
CBC to Kill 6 o’clock news?
Will CBC kill the 6 o’clock news?
As it struggles with budget cuts and a changing media landscape, the public broadcaster considers overhauling its local...
Fox News Anchor Arrested for Drunkenness
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett, 59, was arrested and jailed overnight following an incident at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. According to the Star-Tribune, police were called to an airport bar & grill about an intoxicated man.
CBC Radio 2 to go online only – Major CBC Cuts
Watchdog group People inside the main foyer of the CBC building in Toronto watch the network's ..
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. May 23rd
May 23rd is the birthdate of big band stars Artie Shaw and Helen O'Connell, as well as singing star Rosemary Clooney. Both radio station KOL Seattle and Vancouver's Z95.3 signed on.
Frank Sinatra. Ella Fitzgerald, the Everly Bros. and The Beatles made music headlines.
Singer Eddy Howard, actor Sterling Hayden and comedian Moms Mabley breathed their last on this date, along with the TV series Full House, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Mike Eckford Now hosting Corus Cross Canada Pot Show!
CKNW AM 980’s Mike Eckford's will be hosting the Corus Radio Network Special Talk Show Presentation about Marijuana.
Is it time to legalize Pot? Join this cross country conversation
