TV Journalist Runs for Mayor of Victoria
Stephen Andrew has been turning up on Victoria TV screens for the past 15 years, beginning as a community reporter on Shaw Cable, and host of a weekly news review panel, before being hired at what is now CTV Vancouver Island.
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SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. Oct. 11th
Happy Birthday today to Luke Perry, David Morse, Joan Cusack, Emily Deschanel, Jane Krakowski and Daryl Hall.
The 'American Album of Familiar Music' began its long Sunday night run on NBC radio; Hugh Downs left both 'NBC-tv's 'Today show' and Concentration' for a year off; Canada's first hockey telecast aired in French on Montreal's CBFT; Rod Stewart got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind' began its 12-week run atop the charts; and Bob Dylan played Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum.
Bowing out this date sadly were CBS newsman Douglas Edwards, ventriloquist Wayland Flowers, singers Connee Boswell, Tex Williams and Russ Hamilton, and actor/sportscaster Gil Stratton Jr.
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CKNW Kills Last Remnant of Sportstalk
Brook Ward had been methodically building a loyal audience on his two-hour Saturday and Sunday late-night 'Sports Weekend', one of the last established forms of sports programming on the station. But that was cancelled earlier this week.
95.7Jet Welcomes Marty Riemer joining Jodi Brothers
10/08/14 - The Jet KJR-FM 95.7 Seattle morning show host Jodi Brothers has announced on The Jet's Facebook page that Marty Riemerwill be joining her on a.m. drive. The two were formerly morning hosts at Seattle market The Mountain KMTT-FM 103.7 (now KHTP-FM) before Riemer's...
FOX, KCPQ in a Fight for Prize of NFL Telecasts
By Sports Columnist ART THIEL.
FOX so wants to own a station in Seattle market that they bought one in Bellingham as leverage against KCPQ’s owners. Losers could be some South Sound Seahawks fans.
Paul Harvey: Grandfather Of Conservative Talk?
“Say the words ‘conservative radio’ to most young people today and they’ll likely come up with a name like Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck,” writes Watson
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CBC ‘Hourglass’ and CKVU ‘Vancouver Show’ Host Mike Winlaw Dead at 76
Mike was a face very familiar to West Coast TV viewers in the 1970's.