Industry News

It was the tenth time in in the last 14 surveys that KMQV came in at #1.

The non-governmental Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has no policy against marijuana ads, but then no one has advertised marijuana before.

IT WAS MAY 13th ....when "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch" ended its 16 years as a Sunday afternoon staple on CBS Radio (Gene is pictured)... When the 'Kraft Music Hall,' now starring Milton Berle, ended a record 26 years on NBC radio & TV .... When the game-changing 'Pat Burns Hotline' debuted on AM 600 CJOR in Vancouver ... ..and when the CBC's flagship TV news shows The National and The Journal were moved from 10 pm to 9 pm. (The move was a failure & was soon reversed.) ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

MOViN continues well ahead in 1st place. KRWM drops, KISW moves up. KKWF The Wolf jumps into 3rd in April.

"Letterman is, by any standard, a landmark performer," says Howard Stringer, the executive who brought the comic to CBS in 1993 and put him up in a landmark building on Broadway.

Former CBC Radio host will stand trial in 2016 on five other counts of sexual assault and one of choking.

IT WAS MAY 12th .. when syndicated gossip columnist Walter Winchell (pictured) made his radio debut on New York's WABC... When Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley (just back from his military service in Germany) appeared on the ABC TV special 'Welcome Back Elvis"... When CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show was headlined by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, along with comedians Richard Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield ... ..and when the final episode of "The Incredible Hulk" was telecast on CBS. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Mark’s career at Vancouver Radio began in 1993 when he joined the operation as a part time announcer / operator.

Under sunny skies, over 350 broadcasters from 50 years of British Columbia Institute of Technology alumni started pouring into the Hilton at Metrotown in Burnaby BC on Friday night