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IT WAS JULY 18th …. when Saskatoon got its pioneer radio station as CFQC Saskatoon signed on 400 metres with 200 watts of power…. When CKVU-TV was licensed as Vancouver’s third television station. It signed on 14 months later. Today it is known as City-TV… When CBS radio introduced its experimental Columbia Workshop of the Air,.. ..and when obits included one-half of Canada’s favorite comedy team Johnny Wayne; and veteran NBC & PBS newsman Paul Duke. Details of ALL the July 18th milestones INSIDE.

Broadcast celebrities born July 17th include Canadians Art Linkletter (pictured) and Donald Sutherland, actress/singer Diahann Carroll and Baywatch’s David Hasselhoff. Disneyland opened its doors in California, John Chancellor debuted as host of NBC-TV’s Today Show, Anne Murray scored another #1 hit, and Rod Stewart released his first solo single, “Maggie Mae.” Obits for July 17th include broadcasters Walter Cronkite and Bernard Cowan, jazz greats Billie Holliday and John Coltrane, author Mickey Spillane, and actors Larry Haines and Geraldine Fitzgerald. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS JULY 16th … when Diana Ross & the Supremes guest hosted NBC-TV’s Tonight Show, while at the same hour Janis Joplin was the sole guest on ABC-TV’s Dick Cavett Show…. When Los Angeles disc jockey Rick Dees (pictured) debuted his late night TV show “Into The Night with Rick Dees” on ABC-TV… When the Beach Boys appeared on NBC-TV’s Today Show, on the 37th anniversary of their signing by Capitol Records… ..and when the domestic TV diva Martha Stewart was sentenced to 5 months in prison, ALL the milestones for July 16th INSIDE.

The Mike Pence (pictured) Show was syndicated by Network Indiana on 19 stations statewide, the largest of which was WIBC/Indianapolis

IT WAS JULY 15th … when “Music and the Spoken Word” debuted on KSL Salt Lake City. It is still heard today on 2,000 radio & TV stations worldwide… When radio station CKLN 1420 first went on the air in Nelson, B.C…. When 24-year old singer Patti Page made her TV debut in a summer replacement series for Perry Como.. ..and when cable news network MSNBC began operations in Secaucus, New Jersey, a joint project of Microsoft & NBC TV. ALL the milestones for July 15th INSIDE>

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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.