Industry News

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!

Pepper and Dylan will kick off your morning from 5:30 am – 10 am, followed by Liann Cameron. The Mike Chalut Show will bring you home and keep the party going all day long in their new time slot 2pm – 7pm, and DJ Mike Thomas will still be spinning the 5 O’clock Traffic Jam!

The Wolf, KIRO-FM and KJR-FM round out a tightly-bunched Top Five.

Hyndman was found without vital signs in an alleyway near the intersection of Queen Street and Broadview Avenue in Toronto shortly after 11 p.m. ET Monday.

Roundhouse Radio 98/3 proudly announces the recent signings of Dave Dhillon (Creative Director), Cory Price (Music Director & On-Air), Leslie Glaeser (Traffic and Accounting Manager) and Barb Snelgrove (Promotions & Communications Director).

They work for a few very large papers but not for many others.

CFNY-FM: Not Your Average Radio Clone. It's a fun 22 minutes.

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.

IT WAS AUG. 3rd ... when 36-year-old announcer Frank Blair became news anchor of the NBC-TV Today Show, a job he would keep for the next 22 years!... When CBS-TV war correspondent Morley Safer sent out a Vietnam report showing American troops using their Zippo lighters to set fire to thatched huts in a Vietnamese village ... When 'Tonight Show' host Johnny Carson graced the cover of the Burbank telephone directory... ..and when the ABC-TV news magazine Primetime Live debuted, with Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer headlining. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.