Industry News

I love tough questioning ...but only if directed against ALL politicians equally. And I’m starting to wonder if the CBC is taking sides in the election.

Sept. 20th brought us Sophia Loren, Gogi Grant, Gary Cole, orchestra leader Frank Devol, Northern Exposure's Peg Phillips (Photo) and Leah Pinsent. The Calgary station now known as City TV signed on, while Vancouver's CKLG 73 ended 29 years of rock music and switched fulltime to talk. Jimmy Stewart debuted a radio western 'The Six-Shooter' on NBC,; the 'Bill Cosby Show' began its popular 8-year run on NBC-TV, while 'You'll Never Get Rich' with Phil Silvers, and the original 'Hawaii Five-Oh' had their premieres on CBS-TV. Meantime, this was the date Gunsmoke's bartender Glenn Strange, singer Jim Croce, and bandleader Paul Weston departed this vale of tears. ALL the milestones for Sept. 20th INSIDE.

Fiona Forbes weekly Shaw TV show called The Lowdown welcomes guests Michael Eckford, Donovan Tildesley and Bianca Solterbeck

Garner Andrews has come up with a positive way of reaching out to Edmontonians during ratings period...

Rick Arnish of Kamloops will retire on Jan. 20, 2016, which is the 47th anniversary of his entrance into the broadcast industry.

Shields, 60, prefers to praise his co-workers as key contributors to his success in radio. “You’re only as good as the people working for your operation,” he said.

For the first time since PPM was implemented radio put together six consecutive months of year-over-year listening growth. In August radio managed to continue that trend, notching another month of growth

The reason radio is struggling, many media buyers believe, is because of consolidation that has concentrated radio ownership in the hands of a few industry giants.