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CBS Radio Reduces Staff

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CBS Radio began a nationwide lay-off of staffers. According to insiders, the total number of CBS Radio employees released on Monday (plus a handful from earlier this month), is around 200.

Sandmeyer & Churchill Fired from Seattle’s AM 1090 THE FAN

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THE FAN's only local programming is dead, after 3-6 pm program hosts STEVE SANDMEYER and JASON CHURCHILL were let go.

TUESDAY in Broadcast History .. July 14th

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IT WAS JULY 14th ... when satirist Stan Freberg (pictured) debuted a weekly sketch comedy series on CBS Radio; it ran for 15 unsponsored weeks.... When one of the shock jock's early forays into TV, "The Howard Stern Summer Show" premiered on WWOR-TV in New York City... When TV trash-talk show host Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio... ..and when two distinguished network news anchors, CBS's Douglas Edwards and NBC's John Chancellor, were born. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Radio Newsroom Salaries Dip…

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radio newsroom salaries slipped — off an average of 4.1% from year-to-year

Des Moines TV Station Reports “Crappy” story

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The difference a single letter can make!

Seattle an Early City for Comcast Live TV Streaming Service

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The $15-per-month option will debut in Boston, then Chicago and Seattle, and the cable giant plans to make it available everywhere by early 2016.

Bob Dylan Tales-2 by Seattle Radioman Dick Curtis

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“The more I think about it, the more I realized what I left behind in Japan – my soul, my music and that sweet girl in the geisha house – I wonder does she remember me?” (Bob Dylan)

MONDAY in Broadcast History .. July 13th

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IT WAS JULY 13th .. when KDBQ San Francisco changed its call letters to KYA, and soon became an iconic rock radio force... When BBC Radio banned "No One Is Innocent" by the Sex Pistols.... When sportscaster Howard Cosell said that he was "tired of being tied to the football mentality" and asked to be released from duties on ABC's Monday Night Football... ..and when Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler (pictured) announced he was leaving FOX-TV's American Idol after two seasons, to focus his attention back on the band. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

“A contract has been placed on you” radioman John Rook

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John Rook, long time american radio man and PD at such stations as KFI in Los Angeles , WLS in Chicago and in the latter years owner of a cluster of radio stations from 1983 to 1999, who was forced out of business shares his story on PSR....

SUNDAY in Broadcast History .. July 12th

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IT WAS JULY 12th .. when the Toronto Daily Star's pioneering radio station CFCA had its Grand Opening. Foster Hewitt broadcast his first hockey game on CFCA seven months later. .. When The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard for the first time, on ABC Radio. Howard Duff (pictured) starred as the San Francisco detective in the summer replacement series which quickly won a year-round following ... When PBS began airing concerts by the Boston Pops Orchestra... ...and when the daytime game show "Family Feud" premiered on ABC-TV with Richard Dawson as host. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.