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Ken Schram, who hosted a Sunday evening Town Hall on KOMO4 for years, as well as hosted several talk shows on KOMO AM 1000 died in hospice this afternoon, Details and a picture INSIDE. (click on the headline.)

Mark Summers moves over to Saskatchewan and Regina's Super Giant CJME from the 70's

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.)

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. Check these and scores of other anniversaries INSIDE.

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.

Corporate radio Now has a zero tolerance for over-the-top offensive Shock Jock comments

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...

Watchdog group People inside the main foyer of the CBC building in Toronto watch the network's ..