Puget Sound Radio

The C’s will honour Russell Saturday at The Nat with a spot in their broadcast and journalism hall of fame. There will be a ceremony before the 7:05 p.m. game against the Boise Hawks.

The veteran journalist had been working as a celebrity columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

When I was Program Director for Vancouver’s LG/73 and CFOX, and National Program Director for Moffat Communications, a young fellow from AM 106 in Calgary came to see me. He was the nighttime DJ there and when I asked him how his ratings were doing he said he had a 75% share of the Calgary audience at night. I was like, really, but stayed polite and we continued on

IT WAS AUG. 24th .. when the CBC’s CBX AM1010 signed on with 50,000 watts at Lacombe Alberta, in an ultimately failed attempt to serve both Edmonton and Calgary with one transmitter … When Montreal-born William Shatner appeared for the first time on the cover of TV Guide, with fellow Star Trek actors Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy … When a spinoff of the sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Facts of Life” debuted on NBC-TV, starting a nine year run…. ..and when NBC TV’s Jay Leno was the host as Microsoft officially rolled out their Windows 95 operating system in the Seattle suburb of Redmond. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

The cause of death was not given, but King had been suffering from--and was recently hospitalized for--lung cancer.

Doing play-by-play HIS way is part of why Fai wants to stay with the local baseball club.

The anchor spots at six opened up when Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart were released in a round of Bell Media budget cuts in April.