Puget Sound Radio

It's the date of birth of broadcasters Dan Rather and Jane Pauley, singers Dale Evans and Ethel Waters, actors Michael Landon, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ken Wahl and John Candy, and rapper Vanilla Ice. Vancouver's CHAN-TV (now Global) signed on for the first time; NBC televised 'Carmen' as the first opera ever aired 'in living color'; the 100th episode of 'The Odd Couple' was seen on ABC; and Alive Cooper hosted 'The Monstrous Munster Mash' marathon on superstation WGN. Bing Crosby's 'White Xmas' began an 11 week run at #1; the Rolling Stones played Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto; and Barry McGuire sang 'Eve of Destruction' on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show. ALL the milestones for Oct. 31st INSIDE.

Ed Baxter spent more than 30-years at crosstown KGO Radio, where he was heard in both afternoons and mornings during his long tenure

Brian Coxford wins Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award and long time radio broadcast journalist Allen Garr wins City Mike Award...

"Trailer Park Boys" actor Lucy DeCoutere has accused former CBC-Radio host Jian Ghomeshi of choking her "to the point she could not breathe" and slapping her "hard three times on the side of her head."

The Royal BC Museum in Victoria has been collecting provincial radio and television shows and now have a Youtube channel for some real classics, including this one... Come Inside...

Roundhouse Radio has hired Tracey Friesen as Director of Programming at Vancouver’s newest radio station, expected to go on the air Spring of 2015.

Happy birthday to Grace Slick, Henry Winkler, Kevin Pollak, Harry Hamlin, Glee's Matthew Morrison and Cash Cab's Ben Bailey. It's the day CBS radio listeners were terrified by Orson Welles 'War of the Worlds'; the 100th episode of 'Cheers' was aired on NBC-TV, and 4 years later the same network broadcast the 100th episode of 'Matlock.' Roy Orbison's 'Oh, Pretty Woman' became a Gold Record. and Frank Sinatra recorded 'My Way.' Leaving us on Oct. 30th were Steve Allen, Robert Goulet, Pert Kelton, John Houseman, and Vancouver-born actor John Drainie. ALL the milestones for this date INSIDE.