Puget Sound Radio

IT WAS APRIL 20th … when Radio Specialties Ltd opened the predecessor to Vancouver’s C-FUN & CKMO using 40 watts of power on 450 meters (666 khz). The studios of CFCQ were at 791 Dunsmuir…. When “Your Hit Parade” debuted on NBC Radio as a one-hour Saturday night program, featuring 15 of the week’s top songs… When “The Big Show” with hostess Talullah Bankhead (pictured) completed its two year run on NBC Radio… and when the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting. ALL the broadcast milestones for the date INSIDE.

Today Dave Sims is undergoing surgery on a ruptured Achilles, while Rick Rizzs faces the knife on his torn biceps tomorrow.

It’s a decision that caught Cole by surprise. And it’s a decision that he still doesn’t quite understand, considering he’s been this country’s broadcaster since 1972.

Several of the big-name shows that were on 1410 will make the switch to TSN 1040.

A good book for Movin' 92.5, KZOK and KNDD.

IT WAS APRIL 19th … when the Chicago Barn Dance first aired on WLS. In a few short years it became the National Barn Dance on NBC radio… When the ABC Television Network began operations, only in Philadelphia and Washington at first… When New York AM station WINS became the world’s first all-news radio outlet… and when our TV screens were filled with images of destruction from Oklahoma City, after a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Entercom's format switch (from KMPS Country) is paying off.