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IT WAS AUGUST 5th .. when KDKA Pittsburgh aired the first-ever baseball play by play, with pioneering announcer Harold Arlin at the mike … When the daily radio drama “Backstage Wife” first aired on a network (Mutual), after proving popular for a few months on Chicago’s WGN. It moved to NBC a year later, and to CBS two decades later!… When after becoming a huge TV hit in Philadelphia, Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” made its debut on ABC… .. and when Prince George (BC) got its second private radio station as CJCI 620 signed on the air. “C.I.” stood for Central Interior… ALL the milestones for Aug. 5th INSIDE!

This puts NBC about 20% ahead of ad sales for its 2012 London games.

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Jerry's first baseball play-by-play was in 1974 for the Tacoma Twins of the Pacific Coast League. He also called college sports for Pacific Lutheran University.

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IT WAS AUG. 4th … when the first tennis match on radio was aired on Pittsburgh’s KDKA, the first US commercial station… When the CBC carried out Canada’s first television transmission from a helicopter… When the Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to rescind the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’… ..and when Duncan BC’s radio station CKAY 1500 became CJSU (SUN FM) 89.7. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Normally Fox News has bested CNN by a wide margin in total viewers.