Puget Sound Radio

Standing no taller than five foot six, yet so full of life's fire, so intense was his inquisitiveness, so forceful was his personality, one could not fail to notice his presence fill any room he walked into.

Happy Birthday to Ed Asner, Sam Waterston, C.W. McCall, Kevin Eubanks, Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, newsman John Roberts, Shalene Woodley and Jack Burns. The National Broadcasting Company began operations with 24 radio stations; Bellingham’s KVOS AM 1200 fired up with 100 watts; TV’s first remote occurred when the cameras of NBC New York’s W2XBT covered a fire; Edmonton’s CKRA-FM (‘Capital FM’) signed on to 96.3 MHz; ‘Dallas’ episode 100 was seen on CBS-TV; and the Rolling Stones made their first appearance on NBC-TV’s primetime ‘Hullabaloo.’ Obits this date include Lionel Barrymore, Enid Markey, Dennis Cole, former CBS owner Larry Tisch, Cincinnati baseball broadcaster Joe Nuxhall, and (pictured) John Morgan of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. ALL the milestones for Nov. 15th INSIDE.

Local television ratings for recent Seahawks’ games has remained on par with where they have consistently been since the end of the 2012 season.

Global BC anchor Colleen Christie, herself a target of CTV budget cutting earlier this year, has posted today about a new round of local CTV bloodletting.

Dave Wheeler is the morning host at 92 CITI-FM in Winnipeg. Along with Rena Jae and recent addition Dave Turnbull, they continue to be one of Winnipeg's top morning shows.

Instead of serving up tunes and banter, a popular Penticton morning radio show host will soon be dishing out plates of pasta. Randy Farmer has announced he’s leaving Sun FM after 16 years with the station. His last shift is Dec. 1.

Many of us have an inbuilt desire – a burning even – to perform at our very best.  We want to achieve all that can be achieved.  We want to leave our mark.  While our intentions are honourable, our actions don’t always support our desire.   Achieving peak performance takes discipline and commitment and for some of us it is just to easy to give up or worse fail to really start.