SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 15th
Happy Birthday to Ed Asner, Judge Wapner, Sam Waterston, C.W. McCall, Kevin Eubanks, Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, newsman John Roberts, Shalene Woodley and Jack Burns.
The National Broadcasting Company started operations with 24 radio stations; Bellingham's KVOS AM 1200 fired up with 100 watts; TV's first remote occurred when the cameras of NBC New York's W2XBT covered a fire; Edmonton's CKRA-FM ('Capital FM') signed on to 96.3 MHz; 'Dallas' episode 100 was seen on CBS-TV; the Rolling Stones made their first appearance on NBC-TV's primetime 'Hullabaloo'; and the Bay Area got its third TV station when KRON 2 signed on.
Obits this date i nclude Lionel Barrymore, Enid Markey, Dennis Cole, former CBS owner Larry Tisch, Cincinnati baseball broadcaster Joe Nuxhall, and John Morgan of the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
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Meredith Geddes Exits JACK for CFOX
Meredith Geddes will make the move from 96.9 Jack FM to CFOX in Vancouver in January, Meredith is the current drive personality for Jack, she will take over Middays on CFOX.
Enjoying Bob In Its Final Days…
When Canadian stations change format, it is not unusual for them to up their “Cancon” in the last days of the old format so that they can launch the new format with slightly less.
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Bill Cosby Accused of Rape on CNN
“He had been mentoring me, and grooming me,” Barbara Bowman told Don Lemon, recounting coming to New York City at 17 to pursue an acting career with Bill Cosby as her guide. She went on to reveal multiple accounts of being drugged and raped by Cosby.
Ghomeshi Fallout: CBC May Change Name of ‘Q’
By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press
Posted: 11/13/2014 1:00 pm EST
Jian Ghomeshi, the now-former host of CBC-Radio's morning show, Q, in the Q studio at CBC. The CBC is looking at possibly changing the...
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 14th
It;s the date of birth for actors Dick Powell, McLean Stevenson (pictured), josh Duhamel, Betsy Brandt, Rosemary DeCamp, and Brian Keith, and singers Martha Tilton, Morton Downey and Johnny Desmond.
Chicago radio station KYW was the first to air a professional opera as it was being staged; the BBC began domestic radio service; the Go-Go's made their national TV debut as guests on NBC's Saturday Night Live; and the Dave Clark Five performed 'Over & Over' on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.
It's the day Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra recorded their legendary 'Opus #1'; and Eddie Fisher recorded his 3rd #1 hit 'Oh My Pa-Pa.'
And the date we lost the first anchorman who did yeoman work on both radio & TV, Robert Trout of CBS News.
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CRTC Demands ‘Pirate’ Radio India Shut Down by Midnight
After years of tolerating three Punjabi-language stations broadcasting illegally into the Lower Mainland from U.S.-based transmitters, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said it’s had enough.
