Vancouver’s AM 1410 Drops Sports, Goes All BNN Bloomberg Business
AM 1410 will become BNN Bloomberg Radio, Canada’s first business news radio station, launching in conjunction with the new brand on Monday, April 30.
Retired NPR Newsman Carl Kasell Dies at 84
Kasell was best known in recent years as the announcer and scorekeeper for the NPR news quiz show “Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” for which he would record answering machine and voice mail greetings for the show’s winners.
MIDDAYS / PRODUCTION / PROMOTIONS / WEB EDITING in Cranbrook, BC
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WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. April 18th
IT WAS APRIL 18th … when future late night TV host Johnny Carson played a bored New Jersey husband with a gift for picking horse-racing winners, in a Playhouse 90 production on CBS-TV…
When the reality TV show “Real People” debuted, featuring John Barbour, Sarah Purcell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, and Bill Rafferty…
When the TV movie “Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys” aired on ABC…
and when Arsenio Hall (pictured)l announced (for the first time) he would end his five-year-old late-night TV talk show the following month…
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
Tribute to Art Bell on Coast to Coast This Thursday
George Noory announced Monday night on his Coast to Coast AM Show that a tribute to the late Art Bell (pictured) would air this Thursday April 19 at 10 pm Pacific.
According to a statement posted...
More on the Imminent Death of Roundhouse Radio
Billing itself as hyperlocal, Roundhouse Radio was launched in October, 2015, broadcasting from Railtown, with an interview-heavy, NPR sort of format. Its reach is limited to the city of Vancouver and the North Shore.
TV Networks Cutting Back on Commercials
The TV networks need a new selling strategy as their ratings continue to decline. The prime-time audience of the broadcast networks is off nearly 20 per cent compared with the previous year.