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Roundhouse Radio's Martin Strong interviews William B. Davis aka The Smoking Man from The X Files

The new building is at the Home Plate Center in the South of Downtown neighborhood. KING’s first broadcast from its new home will be Saturday at 7 a.m

It’s the date that Calvin Coolidge made the first US presidential political speech on radio. When Winnipeg’s CKY moved up the dial from 910 KHz to 780. When Vancouver’s CKWX was authorized to increase power from 100 watts to a whopping 1,000 watts. When the comic strip superhero ‘Superman’ made his first appearance on radio via New York’s WOR. And when actor Nicholas Colasanto (pictured), who played Coach on NBC-TV’s Cheers, died of a heart ailment partway through the the third season of the sitcom at age 61. Details and ALL the milestones for Feb. 12th INSIDE.

The stations have not filed a pile of required paperwork, e.g. annual returns, submission of radio monitoring material, response to requests for information and Canadian content.

"As part of the settlement, Dish's AutoHop commercial-skipping functionality will not be available for owned and affiliated Fox stations until seven days after a program first airs."

Two memorable series from Old Time Radio debuted on this date .. ‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ on NBC, and ‘Yours Truly Johnny Dollar’ on CBS. Jack Paar (pictured) walked off NBC-TV’s ‘Tonight Show’ because the network had censored his bathroom joke. The 100th episode of ‘Ironside’ aired, starring New Westminster’s Raymond Burr. And Kurt Russell’s TV-movie titled ‘Elvis!’ debuted on ABC. ALL the milestones for Feb. 11th INSIDE.

When Darlene Check left Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton with her diploma, she was dead set on obtaining a university degree and perhaps going on to law school. Then, while trudging through a year of arts and science classes, she started to have second thoughts. Her mind drifted back to high school, when a famous Edmonton broadcaster by the name of Brian Hall visited her school

We need a part time utility player on our team! The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group in Prince George is looking for a versatile talent who can pull off a locally focused, compelling and engaging show on Prince George’s Classic Hits, 99.3 The Drive. You’ll be doing weekends and vacation relief.

Vancouver Veteran Broadcasters Terry Reid and Jack Marion join PULSE FM for Morning Show...