FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 25th
IT WAS AUG. 25th .. when ‘Father Knows Best’ starring Robert Young began its 4-year run on NBC Radio…
When the TV game show “Concentration” with Hugh Downs (pictured) aired for the first time on NBC…
When the married detectives series "Hart to Hart" debuted on ABC-TV...
When the 43rd Emmy Awards gave their top trophies to LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig…
..and when the CRTC approved CHUB Nanaimo to move from 1570 KHz to 102.3 MHz, CHPQ Parksville from 1370 KHz to 99.9 MHz, and CKEG Nanaimo from 1350 KHz to 1570 KHz.
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Jay Thomas of ‘Cheers,’ ‘Murphy Brown’ & Letterman Xmas Tree Fame Dies at 69
Thomas played the obnoxious TV talk show host Jerry Gold (and Candice Bergen's off-and-on boyfriend) on Murphy Brown after his stint as Rhea Perlman’s husband Eddie LeBec of the Boston Bruins, on Cheers in the late 1980's.
Looking for News Anchor/Reporter in Brandon, Manitoba…
Wanted: News Anchor / Reporter – Q Country & 94.7 StarFM in Brandon, Manitoba...
Rocky Times for the Rebel and Ezra Levant – Ezra to fight back! (Video)
These past few weeks have been somewhat trying for Canada's independent media giant, The Rebel.media...
The curse of mediocre performance by Paul Kaye
Mediocre performance is a virus. Once an individual becomes infected it spreads quickly and with vigor into their psyche. If an individual becomes infected mediocrity can start to spread to others and before long it’s bringing everyone down, crippling your team’s chances of peak performance
Art Factora has some great news, plus reports about the fading days of CISL
Art Factora has been with CISL for many years, and will retain his same address at 650 AM on the dial, only he will be joining Rogers Radio newest Vancouver radio station
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 24th
IT WAS AUG. 24th .. when the CBC’s CBX AM1010 signed on with 50,000 watts at Lacombe Alberta, in an ultimately failed attempt to serve both Edmonton and Calgary with one transmitter …
When Montreal-born William Shatner appeared for the first time on the cover of TV Guide, with fellow Star Trek actors Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy …
When a spinoff of the sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Facts of Life” debuted on NBC-TV, starting a nine year run….
..and when NBC TV’s Jay Leno was the host as Microsoft officially rolled out their Windows 95 operating system in the Seattle suburb of Redmond.
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