‘Reality’ TV Exposed: “Scripted Lines” and “Producer-Engineered Fiction”
Teresa Giudice tried to encourage the judge not to be influenced by her portrayal on the Bravo reality show. She says the Real Housewives show is “little more than a carefully crafted fiction, engineered by Bravo TV through scripted lines and clever editing,” according to TMZ, and that she is much nicer than she appears on-screen.
Sirius XM Canada Declares October Russell Peters Month
The month will be dedicated to celebrating Russell Peters who has won international acclaim as Canada's number one comedy export. The limited engagement channel will feature exclusive interviews from the SiriusXM archives, as well as never-before-heard interviews from this year with Canada Laughs host Ben Miner. His famed 'Notorious' material will be heard throughout the month and more.
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Oct. 2nd
Born this date were Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, Kelly Ripa, Don Maclean, Lorraine Bracco, and movie critic Rex Reed.
The Lutheran Hour debuted on radio, as did The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (w/Basil Rathbone), The Cisco Kid, and the predecessor to the longrunning daytime soap Pepper Young's Family.
The Aldrich Family began a 4-year run on NBC-TV, Combat and Ben Casey had their premieres on ABC-TV, while The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow's celebrity interview show, Person to Person, got their starts on CBS-TV.
Obituaries include Rock Hudson, Frank Lovejoy, Gene Autry, Lon Clark, Nipsey Russell, Harriet Nelson and Canadian bandleader Denny Vaughan.
More milestones for Oct. 2nd INSIDE.
Kelowna’s CKKO-FM Denied Transmitter Change “to Better serve West Kelowna”
The CRTC says the change would have made the station well received in Penticton, and would have turned K96.3 Classic Rock into a regional station.
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. October 1st
A huge date in Canadian broadcasting, as the CTV network was born with stations from Vancouver to Halifax. CBC-FM also went coast to coast for the first time, and the CBC's Montreal station produced Canada's first colour telecast. Much More Music debuted on the country's cablesystems; Vancouver's CJOR moved down the dial to its longtime home at 600 KHz; Duncan BC got its own radio station as CKAY AM1500 debuted; the second national CBC radio network (The Dominion network) went dark as more national advertising migrated from radio to TV. STAR FM debuted with two transmitters in the Fraser Valley, and Calgary's CFXL AM1140 (successor to Top 40 powerhouse CKXL) transitioned to FM. In Nanaimo, CKEG AM 1570 moved from a country format to 'Feelgood Oldies.'
And it's the birthday of radio tycoon Jimmy Pattison.
Details of these, and Johnny Carson's first hosting of NBC's 'Tonight Show,' indeed ALL the October 1st broadcast milestones INSIDE.
Seattle Radio PPM’s … Sept. 2014
More good news for KQMV Movin' in the #1 spot, and for KIRO and its AM sister station 710 ESPN, both of which benefitted from their carriage of the NFL champion Seattle Seahawks.
And a big jump for non-commercial Classical KING-FM. Now where did that come from?
Apology to Justin Trudeau for Levants remarks
Ezra Levant show narrator reads apology to Justin Trudeau for host’s on-air rant
