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Born this date were Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, Kelly Ripa, Don Maclean, Lorraine Bracco, and movie critic Rex Reed. The Lutheran Hour debuted on radio, as did The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (w/Basil Rathbone), The Cisco Kid, and the predecessor to the longrunning daytime soap Pepper Young's Family. The Aldrich Family began a 4-year run on NBC-TV, Combat and Ben Casey had their premieres on ABC-TV, while The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow's celebrity interview show, Person to Person, got their starts on CBS-TV. Obituaries include Rock Hudson, Frank Lovejoy, Gene Autry, Lon Clark, Nipsey Russell, Harriet Nelson and Canadian bandleader Denny Vaughan. More milestones for Oct. 2nd INSIDE.

It sets the stage for a high-profile trial over what Ghomeshi has said was consensual rough sex with a series of women.

There’s one more debate in this campaign, Friday night from Montreal, hosted and broadcast by the biggest French-language privately-owned network in the country, TVA. But CBC will skip that one, too.

KJR-FM & KIRO-FM have made big gains, but Movin has a great story in the Demo breakouts.

A huge date in Canadian broadcasting, as the CTV network was born with stations from Vancouver to Halifax. CBC-FM also went coast to coast for the first time, and the CBC’s Montreal station produced Canada’s first colour telecast. Much More Music debuted on the country’s cablesystems; Vancouver’s CJOR moved down the dial to its longtime home at 600 KHz; Duncan BC got its own radio station as CKAY AM1500 debuted; the second national CBC radio network (The Dominion network) went dark as more national advertising migrated from radio to TV. STAR FM debuted with two transmitters in the Fraser Valley, and Calgary’s CFXL AM1140 (successor to Top 40 powerhouse CKXL) transitioned to FM. In Nanaimo, CKEG AM 1570 moved from a country format to ‘Feelgood Oldies.’ And it’s the birthday of Western Canada radio tycoon Jimmy Pattison (pictured). Details of these, and Johnny Carson’s first hosting of NBC’s ‘Tonight Show,’ indeed ALL the October 1st broadcast milestones INSIDE.

There was a written release earlier from Bell Media indicating 'D'- DAY is Thursday October the 1st, 2015, and cuts are reported to be BIG!!!

“Clients who’ve previewed Voltair’s new capabilities can’t stop raving about the level of information it provides...

A night of forgiveness in Just Let Go with Voice Over artist Ross Huguet...

Highlight the risks associated with the investor-state dispute settlement rules that could lead to more lawsuits against the Canadian government, such as the $500 million lawsuit launched by Eli Lilly