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96.3 Capital FM is now Christmas Music right up until the day Santa arrives!

Jeff Vidler’s company Audience Insights teamed up with Jeff Ulster and conducted a deep dive n podcasting. The study was commissioned by the Globe & Mail.

Happy Birthday to Billy Graham, Joni Mitchell, Buck Martinez and New Zealand’s talented Lorde. Also born Nov. 7th were the late musicians Al Hirt, Joe Bushkin, Red Ingle and Phil Spitalny. Vancouver’s CKLG began airing a syndicated ‘History of Rock & Roll’ which won them a ratings book; radio’s first sci-fi show ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ debuted on CBS; the weekly medical melodrama ‘Dr. Christian’ began its 17-year run on CBS radio; the Righteous Brothers, Peggy Lee, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were performing guests on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show; NBC-TV began the first airing of ‘Gone With the Wind’ over two nights; and Studio One began its decade-long run featuring anthology drama weekly on CBS-TV. Leaving us this date were Steve McQueen, Maverick’s Jack Kelly, Northern Exposure’s Peg Phillips, and Clyde Gilmour of the CBC’s Gilmour’s Albums. Details and ALL the milestones for Nov. 7th are found INSIDE.

"In our 17th year as Chicago’s Christmas Music Station, get ready for lots of fun holiday surprises in the coming weeks!”

Employees got a message from the new management that their union contracts are not being assumed by iHEARTMEDIA and they will all have to reapply for their jobs.

Happy Birthday to Sally Field, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, Bill Henderson of Chilliwack, Fred Penner and Maria Shriver. On this date Windsor’s legendary CKLW came into being when two previous stations were merged; the first commercial TV station WGY Schenectady went on the air; ‘Meet the Press’ debuted on NBC-TV; Phil Donahue’s TV talk show debuted in Dayton, Ohio; ‘The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour’ premiered on CBS-TV; Fox-TV debuted the action series ’24′; and New York’s WOR-TV paid a record $182,000 per episode for reruns of ‘The Cosby Show.” ALL the milestones for the date are INSIDE.

The 67th edition of the Western Association of Broadcast Engineers convention is fast approaching, November 5, 6th and 7th at the Delta Hotels Edmonton South Conference Centre