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Happy Birthday to Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks, Sarah Hyland, Billy Connolly, Pete Best, and the late Howard Duff. It was the day JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald himself was shot dead by Jack Ruby; radio station KVI started serving Tacoma with 50 watts at 1280 KHz; CBC Vancouver opened its new radio-TV headquarters on Hamilton Street; the private eye show 'Simon & Simon' debuted on CBS-TV; Dusty Springfield and The Muppetts were featured on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show; and Frank Sinatra ended 2 years in retirement with the NBC-TV special 'Old Blue Eyes is Back'. The music world lost Freddie Mercury, Big Joe Turner, and Kiss drummer Eric Carr, and actors Richard Carlson and Pat Morita also passed. Details and ALL the Nov. 24 milestones INSIDE.

Where are you Larry Hennessey?

The former “The View” co-host says she's leaving to dedicate more time to family.

The reason the Detroit Lions are leaving CBS radio's 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit is because the team tried to bully the station into firing host Mike Valenti, who's been very critical of the team

cuts started in Edmonton this morning in the CFCW News room and Capital FM... developing story with updates inside...

John Tanner took to the airwaves first in Kelowna, then Red Robinson hired him to join CFUN and the 'good guys'

It’s the date that gave birth to Miley Cyrus, Robin Roberts, John Dehner, Ruth Etting and Boris Karloff. The forerunner to Vancouver’s CKWX radio was licensed as CFDC in Nanaimo; already a hit on TV, ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ debuted on CBS Radio; Bob Hope’s final TV special aired on NBC-TV; ‘Doctor Who’ had its premiere on BBC-TV; Ronald and Nancy Reagan co-starred in a 30-minute ‘GE Theatre’ on CBS-TV; and Bon Jovi played three numbers on NBC-TV’s ‘Today Show.’ Passing away were Larry Hagman, Gloria Gordon (‘Our Miss Brooks’), Marie Wilson (‘My Friend Irma’)(pictured), Western Swing’s Spade Cooley, and country music’s Roy Acuff. Details and ALL the Nov. 23rd milestones INSIDE.

One of the most familiar and influential voices during Puget Sound's formative radio years was Buzz Barr. He parlayed an hourly pay DJ job (in 1958) to eventually became a respected broadcast executive. Barr was, in fact, three times a radio general manager

Happy Birthday to Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mariel Hemingway, Robert Vaughn, Terry Gilliam, Richard Kind and Steve Van Zandt. President Kennedy was assassinated, and broadcasters went to wall-to-wall coverage for 4 days; the first televised interracial kiss occurred on NBC’s Star Trek; Woody Allen was the subject of a 60 Minutes interview about his affair with Mia Farrow’s adoptive daughter; Ted Koppel anchored his final ‘Nightline’ on ABC-TV; and the same network aired the 100th episode of ‘Who’s the Boss.’ Obits include Parley Baer, Michael Conrad, Jazz’s Norman Granz, and down east musician John Allan Cameron. ALL the milestones for Nov. 22nd INSIDE.

It’s the date of birth of Goldie Hawn, Marlo Thomas, Lorna Luft, Harold Ramis, Carly Rae Jepsen, and (pictured) the late Foster Hewitt. Albertans first heard the call letters CKUA, as the University of Alberta took over radio station CFCK. Vancouver got its first FM station as CBR-FM debuted at 105.7; The ‘Roy Rogers Show’ was first heard on the Mutual radio network; CKO-FM came to Vancouver with All News at 96.1 MHz; TV cameras began covering the UK House of Commons; 82 million saw the season opener on CBS-TV’s ‘Dallas’; Aerosmith guested on Fox-TV’s ‘The Simpsons’; and Sherry Stringfield left the cast of NBC-TV’s ‘ER’ for the first time. Leaving this mortal coil on Nov. 21st were Bruno Gerussi, Harry Von Zell, Jerry Colonna, Bill Bixby,Gardner McKay, Bill Black and Deborah Raffin. Details and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.