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Ohlmeyer who coined the phrase ‘Must See TV’ and famously fired Norm Macdonald from Saturday Night Live for too many off-color OJ Simpson jokes dies aged 72.

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IT WAS SEPT. 11th .. when the Miss America Pageant was televised coast-to-coast for the first time. Future TV star Lee Meriwether won the crown … When the last of Gillette’s Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV. Veteran Don Dunphy handled the blow-by-blow as he had on radio & TV for 23 years… When the Canadian newsmagazine “W-5” launched on CTV... ..and when the Carol Burnett Show premiered on CBS, with the first of 278 episodes over the next 10-and-a-half years. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

Bolling Jr had been enormously proud of his father's TV career and was deeply affected by the sexual harassment allegations against him that led to him being fired by Fox News on September 8.

IT WAS SEPT. 10th … when vaudeville star Jimmy Durante made his first radio appearance on Eddie Cantor’s “Chase and Sanborn Hour” on NBC… When Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King took to the radio to announce that Canada was now at war with Germany (WWII)…. When comedian/singer Eddie Cantor moved from radio to television, as he hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC TV… ..and when Seattle’s KING TV introduced the first local TV newscast west of Minneapolis and north of Los Angeles, anchored by Charles Herring (pictured). ALL the milestones for Sept. 10th INSIDE!

"Adrienne and I are devastated by the loss of our beloved son Eric Chase last night. Details still unclear. Thoughts, prayers appreciated," tweeted the senior Bolling, who is pictured here.

102.3 NOW is dominant in Edmonton, Country 105 had a great book in Calgary, but in Vancouver, a handful of different stations get to claim their share of PPM dominance.