Puget Sound Radio

Castanet's new radio station signed on yesterday, Wednesday November 1st, at 11 AM

Early returns from Nielsen Media have game 7 shedding a quarter of last year's record haul. It averaged a 18.8 overnight rating among metered market households, still easily a best for this series.

Seth Resler has just released a new podcast called the D-Brief. He has experimented with everything from backstage podcasts at conferences, to travel podcasts, and finally realized that he really hated audio post-production, and that having your hard drives full of audio created creative clutte

“We get approached all the time by a lot of people, and he did approach us,” Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley said. “But we do not have any interest in hiring him.”

It’s the day that gave us Burt Lancaster, David Schwimmer, Paul Ford, Jay Black, k.d. lang, and early West Coast newscaster Sam Hayes. The early radio soap opera Myrt & Marge (pictured) debuted on CBS; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was created; CFGP brought 100 watts of local radio service to Grande Prairie Alta, and years later on this date, CFCW signed on with 250 watts in Camrose. CBC-TV experimented unsuccessfully with a 9 pm newscast, Ted Danson’s ‘Becker’ debuted on CBS-TV, and NBC-TV aired the 100th episode of ‘Third Rock from the Sun.’ Three veteran TV character actors left us on this date, Leonard Stone, Sid Melton and vocalist Paul Frees. ALL the milestones for Nov. 2nd INSIDE.

Movin' 92.5 ended its four-book slide to bounce into 2nd place (6+) and #1 in every demo breakout.

He moved back to western Canada to take a job as executive producer of CBC Saskatchewan and, after retiring, taught at the University of Regina's school of journalism.