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The insurance investigator drama, ‘Yours Truly Johnny Dollar’ debuted as a nightly quarter hour strip on CBS radio. Canadian-born movie star Glenn Ford was the subject of NBC-TV’s ‘This is Your Life.’ The Everly Brothers sang their latest hit. ‘Cryin’ in the Rain’ on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show. And the mini-series ‘Roots: the Next Generation’ began its 7-night run on ABC-TV. ALL the milestones for Feb. 18th INSIDE.

Leah has been a member of the Metro Vancouver radio community since 2006

Johnny Cash was Ralph Edwards’ surprised guest of honor on NBC-TV’s ‘This Is Your Life’ (pictured). After five years on Minnesota radio only, Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” was first broadcast nationally on NPR. Aerosmith were the musical guests on NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live. And FOX-TV attracted 40 million viewers for its finale of the reality series ‘Joe Millionaire.’ ALL the milestones for Feb. 17th INSIDE.

The best gift the Alberta NDP premier could ever give Ezra Levant (Pictured) was to try to ban The Rebel website

"I am concerned about the team's performance. The team doesn't seem to be gelling off air. They are more concerned about themselves than the show as a whole."

I first became friends with Dave (Pictured) while he was on the morning show at CISL in 1992-93. Program Director BJ Doyle, who’d worked with Dave at K-Lite in Edmonton, brought him over from CFUN to do the morning show, which had temporarily (READ 9 months) been filled by Bob Merchant after Don Percy‘s departure for Winnipeg in the summer of 1991

It was Feb. 16th when Foster Hewitt broadcast his very first hockey play-by-play, Toronto Argonauts vs. the Kitchener Greenshirts, over the Toronto Star’s pioneer radio station CFCA. When Vancouver’s (predecessor to CBU Radio) CRCV increased power from 500 to 5,000 watts, and moved into new studios in the new Hotel Vancouver, When for the first time host John Daly presided over an early TV Sunday night institution, ‘What’s My Line?’ It lasted 17 years! And when John Lennon began a week co-hosting the syndicated ‘Mike Douglas Show,’ and sang two duets with his hero, Chuck Berry. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Len inspired me to get into broadcasting! As a teenager I called into his drive show on 630 CHED, he let me intro a song and then told me on the air, that I should consider a career in radio (Pictured: Len Thuesen)

We're told the new Program Director/Music Director at 107.7 Pulse is Kath Thompson, who was formerly with The Peak in Calgary. And their new Sales...